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- Title: Columbia Casualty Company v. Playtex Fp
- Author : Supreme Court of Delaware
- Release Date : January 08, 1991
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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We have accepted for interlocutory review a decision of the Superior Court which rejected a claim of collateral estoppel asserted by the appellant, Columbia Casualty Company ("Columbia"), against its former insured, Playtex FP, Inc. ("Playtex"). The Superior Court ruled that Playtex was not precluded from relitigating the issue of Playtex's knowledge regarding the risk of toxic shock syndrome associated with the use of its super-absorbent tampons. Such knowledge was attributed to Playtex as a result of certain jury findings in a federal diversity action in Kansas. We agree with the Superior Court that the rendering jurisdiction's requirement of mutuality of collateral estoppel must be given the same preclusive effect in Delaware, and accordingly affirm. I