New York Law Applies In Environmental Dispute, Delaware High Court Says, Reversing

Mealey's (March 27, 2017, 10:24 AM EDT) -- WILMINGTON, Del. — The Delaware Supreme Court on March 23 determined that the law of New York should be applied in a dispute over the allocation of environmental contamination claims because New York has the most significant relationship with the parties and applying the law of the state in which an environmental cleanup site is located, as proposed by the lower court, would result in an inconsistent application of a policy’s contract language (Chemtura Corp. v. Certain Underwriters at CCLC Lloyd’s, et al., No. 371, 2016, Del. Sup., 2017 Del. LEXIS 127)....