Superior Court of Delaware

In a personal injury case, defendants' motion for summary judgment contending that the factual record did not support negligence and negligent hiring claims against them is granted in part and denied in part as to one defendant where there remained factual issues regarding the defendant's active control and voluntary assumption of responsibility for safety.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/06/2006
• Published 06/20/2006

Judges

Court

• Superior Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• I. Barry Guerke, Parkowski, Guerke & Swayze, Dover, DE, Mark J. LeWinter, and James A. Keating, Anapol, Schwartz, Weiss, Cohan, Feldman & Smalley, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for the plaintiff., Jeffrey M. Weiner, Law Offices of Jeffrey M. Weiner, P.A., Joseph A. Gabay, Maron & Marvel, Wilmington, DE, for Capano Homes, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• David G. Culley, Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, DE, for defendants Capano Homes, Inc. and Muirfield Associates, LLC., Stephen P. Casarino, Casarino, Christman and Shalk, Wilmington, DE, for defendants Mun Seok Lee, Mun Seok Lee t/a Rising Sun Contractors, Co., Rising Sun Contracting Co., and Rising Sun Contractors, Inc.