Supreme Court of Delaware

The Emergency Vehicle Statute bars the State, as owner of a police emergency vehicle, from asserting its sovereign immunity as a complete bar to an injured party's claim for personal injuries caused by the negligent or wrongful act of the State's driver or the State.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2004
• Published 04/26/2004

Judges

• STEELE, Justice., Before VEASEY, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, STEELE and JACOBS Justices (constituting the Court en banc).

Court

• Supreme Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard E. Poole and Somers S. Price, Jr. of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, Delaware, for Plaintiffs Below, Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John D. Balaguer of White and Williams LLP, Wilmington, Delaware, for Defendants and Cross Claimants Below, Appellants., Jeffrey M. Weiner of Wilmington, Delaware, for Defendant Below, Appellee Kimberly A. Reinoehl., Kevin J. Connors of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, Delaware, for Defendant Below, Appellee, London Fog Industries, Inc., George H. Seitz, III, Patricia P. McGonigle, and Carrie I. Dayton of Seitz, Vanogtrop & Green, Wilmington, Delaware, for Delaware State Appellees.