Publication Date: 2021-02-10
Practice Area: Damages
Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Montgomery-Reeves
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Caponi, K&L Gates, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Roger R. Crane, Thomas A. Warns, K&L Gates, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Steven T. Margolin, Samuel L. Moultrie, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Hal S. Shaftel, Obiamaka P. Madubuko, Daniel Friedman, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: D69292
The trial court properly ordered a new trial on quantum meruit damages, but it abused its discretion in or-dering a new trial regarding damages for fraud, because plaintiff presented a unified theory of recovery which did not support an independent basis for awarding fraud damages.