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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE LINDA L. THOMPSON and UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE APPEAL BOARD, Appellees Below, Appellants, v. CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM, Appellant Below, Appellee. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

No. 104, 2010 Court Below: Superior Court of the State of Delaware in and for New Castle County C.A. No. 08A-08-001

Submitted: May 18, 2011 Decided: August 12, 2011 Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND and JACOBS, Justices. Upon appeal from the Superior Court. AFFIRMED. Jeffrey K. Martin, Martin & Associates, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware for appellant. David H. Williams, James H. McMackin, III and Allyson M. Britton (argued), Morris James LLP, Wilmington, Delaware for appellee.

STEELE, Chief Justice:

Linda Thompson appeals from a Superior Court judgment reversing the determination of the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board that good cause existed for Thompson's voluntary resignation and granting her unemployment benefits. Thompson contends that: (1) good cause existed for voluntarily

terminating her employment, (2) she exhausted her administrative remedies, and (3) substantial evidence in the record supported the UIAB's decision. Because we find that substantial evidence did not support the UIAB's decision and that the UIAB erred as a matter of law by concluding that Thompson was entitled to benefits pursuant to 19 Del. C.

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