Gulf Power Corp. v. Patterson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiff was “entitled to prejudgment interest on the consequential damages that were awarded by reason of [the defendant’s] breach of contract”
• holding that pre-judgment interest “in Delaware cases is awarded as a matter of right”
• holding that “prejudgment interest in Delaware cases is awarded as a matter of right”
• noting that in Delaware “strong public policy [] favors providing full compensation to 7 prevailing plaintiffs who do not contribute to the defendant's delay in paying”
• explaining “interest accumulates from the date payment was due the plaintiff, because full compensation requires an allowance for the detention of the compensation awarded and interest is used as a basis for measuring that allowance”
• ―[P]rejudgment interest in Delaware cases is awarded as a matter of right . . . .‖

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).