Law360 (February 3, 2025, 9:40 PM EST) — Delaware’s Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a Superior Court judge’s ruling setting aside a jury verdict that Delaware-chartered Conduent State Healthcare LLC tried to defraud insurers after paying a $236 million Medicaid settlement in Texas.
The 26-page opinion sided with then-Superior Court Judge Mary M. Johnston, who in early 2023 ordered a new trial after concluding a jury wrongly determined the insurers denied coverage, saying the jurors were swayed by an inadmissible document and privileged information.
“The trial was plagued by evidentiary issues, as well as multiple events of overreaching and disregard for the court’s rulings — some of which the court assumed responsibility for,” Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz Jr. wrote in the unanimous opinion.
Judge Johnston, the decision noted, did not rely on the jury’s inconsistent verdicts exclusively in ordering a new trial. She “had a front-row seat in the trial and believed that manifest injustice occurred through substantial and prejudicial violations” of the court’s orders, the opinion said.
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