Legal Opinion
Casson v. Nationwide Insurance
Superior Court of Delaware
Decided September 20, 1982PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALSH, Judge.
This case involves an action for damages arising from the alleged breach of the Personal Injury Protection (P.I.P.) clause of an automobile insurance contract issued by the defendant, Nationwide Insurance Company (Nationwide) to the plaintiff, Mark A. Cas-son.
Initially, plaintiff sought reimbursement for lost earnings he sustained following an automobile accident which occurred on July 5, 1979, but later amended his complaint to seek attorney’s fees as well as punitive damages for malicious breach of contract, and tortious breach of an insurer’s duty of good faith dealing with an…
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