Delaware Can Sue Nemours Trust Over Children’s Hospital Funding

Delaware’s top cop can sue charity giant Nemours Foundation over millions of dollars in patient payments the attorney general claims are being misallocated to childrens’ hospitals in other states, a Florida state court ruled Friday.

The ruling revives a decades-old battle over who gets to police the distributions from one of America’s most prominent trusts, created by industrialist Alfred I. duPont to care for sick children and the elderly.

Though the trust is based in Florida where duPont retired, the Delaware Attorney General can sue the trustees in state court alleging they’re not providing at least 50% of the trust ...