Supreme Court of Delaware

In a personal injury and loss of consortium case, an award of costs made against plaintiffs following a jury trial because they did not accept a pre-trial offer of judgment made to them collectively under Superior Court Civil Rule 68 is reversed where the offer was an insufficient predicate for cost shifting under Rule 68, as it was not apportioned to each individual plaintiff.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/07/2006
• Published 09/07/2006

Judges

• RIDGELY, Justice., Before HOLLAND, JACOBS, and RIDGELY, Justices.

Court

• Supreme Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Beverly L. Bove, and Vincent J.X. Hedrick, II, Esquires, of Wilmington, Delaware, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donald M. Ransom, and John A. Macconi, Jr., Esquires, of Casarino, Christman & Shalk, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware, for appellee.