Legal Opinion
Playtex Family Products, Inc. v. St. Paul Surplus Lines Insurance
Superior Court of Delaware
Decided April 13, 1989No. Civ. A. 88C-FE-166, 88C-JN-156PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHANDLER, Vice-Chancellor. *
These consolidated cases arise from a disagreement over the meaning of a one sentence paragraph that appears in several insurance contracts. The plaintiffs, major corporate citizens of Delaware, are the subsidiary and the successor to the subsidiary of Esmark, Inc., an Illinois corporation which served as a holding company for a large number of manufacturing firms. The defendants were excess liability insurers for Esmark and its subsidiaries.
Before the Court is a deceptively simple issue: whether coverage is available under certain insurance contracts for…
2Cases cited31 opinions
- Hanson v. DencklaSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Milliken v. MeyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Huntington v. AttrillSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Durfee v. DukeSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by23 opinions
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- Hoechst Celanese Corp. v. National Union Fire InsuranceSuperior Court of Delaware · 1992
- Bailey v. City of WilmingtonSupreme Court of Delaware · 2001
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