WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A Perdue employee who contracted COVID-19 at work can't earn Workers' Compensation benefits, Delaware's highest court has said in deciding COVID is not a compensable occupational disease.
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A law firm that was fired midway through litigation over an insurance broker’s non-compete agreement must defend itself against claims the case could have been won absent the malpractice of the attorneys, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled.
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Delaware’s highest court revived a derivative lawsuit against the officers and directors of AmerisourceBergen, saying there was plenty of evidence to support a claim they either fostered “a culture of non-compliance” or ignored “a tidal wave of red flags” suggesting it was distributing millions of suspicious orders for opioid pills.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Delaware law doesn't allow people who think they will become sick to sue before it happens, the state's highest court has ruled.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Delaware can sue Bayer AG unit Monsanto for contributing to PCB pollution, the state’s highest court ruled, reversing a lower-court decision holding the manufacturer of a product couldn’t be held liable for public nuisance.
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) -The Delaware Supreme Court revived a woman’s lawsuit against the company that made a grinding device her late husband said he used decades before he was diagnosed with asbestos-related cancer, saying there was enough evidence for it to proceed.
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Insurance companies don’t have to cover defense costs for Rite Aid against opioid lawsuits by governments seeking economic damages, Delaware’s highest court ruled, rejecting one major source of funding that plaintiffs and defendants alike were counting upon to pay out multibillion-dollar settlements.
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) - The Delaware Supreme Court gave two conservative watchdog groups another chance at gaining access to a trove of documents detailing President Joseph Biden’s 36-year career in the U.S. Senate, ruling state officials improperly denied a Freedom of Information Act Request.
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) – Health care providers can argue a lawsuit over a man’s death from colon cancer was filed too late, as the Delaware Supreme Court has rejected arguments that their once-every-five-years advice on colonoscopies was continuing medical negligence.
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) – Banana plantation workers who tried to sue in Delaware – despite working in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama – have again been told they cannot do so.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Delaware has answered a handful of questions arising from a partnership dispute in federal court.
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Texas-based software company ISN Software Corporation has twice in two years failed to convince Delaware courts that the toll on legal malpractice lawsuit over bad advice that cost the company $67 million should begin when it found out about the cost.
GEORGETOWN, Del. (Legal Newsline) — Two state agencies have been dismissed from a lawsuit that argued that rules created by the Delaware Public Service Commission (PSC) were unlawful.
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Delaware's full Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in a dispute between a software company and a law firm accused of delivering wrong advice that caused the firm to overpay by $66 million in a share buy-back - with a notable disagreement occurring between one justice and the law firm's attorney.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – Delaware's high court has affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by an Uber stockholder and former employee over the ride-hailing company's acquisition of Ottomotto LLC.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – An indemnity dispute between a contractor and its subcontractor was dismissed amid both of their settlement agreements with plaintiffs who first named them as co-defendants.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Delaware has ruled that Ford Motor Co.'s appeal that a $40.6 million ruling in an asbestos case was excessive has merit and has remanded the case back to a lower court for a new trial or remittitur.
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) – Christiana Care Health Services Inc. was released from any liability when the woman suing it over allegations of medical negligence signed on to a settlement agreement, the Supreme Court of Delaware ruled on Dec. 2.
WILMINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Oral arguments in a case involving arguments that a law firm issued bad advice that cost a company nearly $66 million will be heard by a full Delaware Supreme Court in early December.
