Ricci v. Quality Bakers of America Cooperative Inc.

OPINION

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, District Judge.

Defendant’s summary judgment motion in this diversity case concerns the existence and scope of the duty under the law of the State of Delaware to an employee by a third party who allegedly undertook safety inspections of the employer’s plant. For reasons which follow, it is held on the facts of this case as established of record that plaintiff failed to establish defendant owed plaintiff any duty, the breach of which would cause Quality Bakers to be liable to plaintiff.

Plaintiff, Frank Ricci, a forty-year employee of Schmidt Baking Co., Inc.…