This is a dram shop case brought by Gina Delfino, Individually, and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Manuel Delfino, and as Parent and Next Friend of Domonic Sena and Gabriel Delfino, Minors, and Domonic Sena, Individually against various taverns and bars, and pharmaceutical companies and representatives, who had \u201cwined and dined\u201d representatives of a doctor\u2019s office over at least a six hour period of time, during which one of the representative accompanied the doctor\u2019s employee to at least three different taverns or bars. The doctor\u2019s representative later crashed into Ms. Delfino\u2019s car tragically killing Manuel Delfino. Various claims were resolved against various bars and the driver intoxicated driver.<\/p>\n
The trial court dismissed the complaint against the pharmaceutical defendants finding the pharmaceutical representatives did not owe a duty to Ms. Delfino, or her decedent, Manual Delfino, because the pharmaceutical defendants entertained and \u201cwined and dined\u201d the doctor\u2019s representative at licensed liquor taverns.<\/p>\n
The New Mexico Supreme Court reversed the trial court\u2019s decision and re-instated Ms. Delfino\u2019s case, finding that a duty existed, and the case subsequently settled for a confidential amount. This is a published opinion. Delfino v. Griffo, 2011-NMSC-015, 150 N.M.97, 257 P.3d 917 (2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a dram shop case brought by Gina Delfino, Individually, and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Manuel Delfino, and as Parent and Next Friend of Domonic Sena and Gabriel Delfino, Minors, and Domonic Sena, Individually against various taverns and bars, and pharmaceutical companies and representatives, who had \u201cwined and dined\u201d representatives of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n