Insurer Need Not Defend Drug Chain in Opioid Suits Claiming Economic, Not Personal, Injury January 11, 2022 By Andrew G. Simpson In the latest turn in litigation over the opioid crisis, a state’s high court has found an insurer does not...
Delaware Court Says Insurance Doesn’t Cover Attacker in School Fight January 31, 2020 By Randall Chase Delaware’s Supreme Court has overturned a judge’s ruling that an insurance company must extend liability coverage to a teenager who...
Delaware Loses Bid for High Court Review of Opioid Suit Ruling December 6, 2019 By Randall Chase A judge who dismissed Walgreens as a defendant in Delaware’s lawsuit against the drug industry over the opioid crisis has...
Retiring Delaware Justice Strine Was Influential in Shareholder Cases July 9, 2019 By Tom Hals Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court Leo Strine will retire in the next few months, Governor John Carney announced...
Delaware Supreme Court Rejects Untimely Appeal in Air Crash Lawsuit April 30, 2019 Delaware’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal in a lawsuit stemming from a 2012 airplane crash in the Congo that...
Delaware Lawmaker, Wife Press Legal Fight Over Home Improvement April 17, 2018 A Delaware lawmaker and his wife, who serves as Wilmington’s city treasurer, are continuing their fight in a long-running legal...
Conviction Stands for Delaware Murder-for-Hire Mastermind March 22, 2018 Delaware’s top court has denied the appeal of the man convicted of masterminding the murder-for-hire killings of his business partner...
Businesses Lobby Delaware to Keep ‘Loser Pays’ Option in Shareholder Suits June 11, 2014 By Tom Hals Big business is lobbying Delaware lawmakers for corporate bylaws to shift legal fees to shareholders who sue and lose, which...
Delaware Court Backs Fee-Shifting in Shareholder Class Actions May 12, 2014 By Tom Hals Delaware’s Supreme Court has ruled that corporations can adopt bylaws requiring an investor who sues and loses to pay the...
Del. Gov. Nominates Corporate Attorney Bouchard to Lead Chancery Court March 21, 2014 By Tom Hals Delaware lawyer Andre Bouchard was nominated on Thursday to replace Leo Strine as the chief judge of the state’s Court...