All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 5 2018 // Delaware State Police say a woman who claimed to be the victim of a carjacking set up by an intentional crash has turned herself in to face criminal charges. Thirty-year-old Jane Macauley of Middletown, Del., surrendered...
Jun 15 2018 // A Delaware couple has been arrested for insurance fraud after filing false medical claims for an automobile accident that never occurred, leading their insurance provider to be billed more than $100,000.“We take...
Jun 11 2018 // A.M. Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of a- to Auto-Owners Specialty Insurance Company (AOSIC) of Dover, Del. The outlook assigned to these ratings is...
Jun 4 2018 // Delaware’s House Substitute 1 for House Bill 80 (HS 1 for HB 80), signed into law on August 1, 2017, went into effect on May 1 of this year.As a result of the legislation, Delaware consumers with policies through one...
May 21 2018 // The Delaware Department of Insurance (DOI) has worked with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as part of a National Level Exercise designed to help FEMA and other federal partners, state and local governments,...
May 15 2018 // The Office of the State Fire Marshal estimates that a lightning strike caused $50,000 worth of damage to Delaware apartments.The News Journal reports that the National Weather Service says lightning struck in the vicinity...
May 11 2018 // The Delaware Department of Insurance’s (DOI) new deputy commissioner, Tanisha L. Merced, was sworn in by Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro on May 7, 2018.“We were fortunate to have several very...
May 4 2018 // The Delaware Department of Insurance (DOI) is working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the next two weeks as part of a National Level Exercise designed to help FEMA and other federal partners,...
May 1 2018 // A federal judge has ruled that Delaware’s lawsuit against drug manufacturers, distributors and drugstores over the opioid crisis should be sent back to state court.In a ruling last week, the judge granted the...
Apr 24 2018 // Delaware State Police are investigating a carjacking set up by an intentional motor vehicle crash.Authorities say the incident happened Wednesday night on state route 71 in Bear when a woman’s car was rammed from...
Apr 23 2018 // Three men found guilty in a murder-for-hire scheme in Delaware have been sentenced.News outlets report 46-year-old Ryan Shover, 53-year-old Michael Kman and 55-year-old Paul Disabatino are the last of four men sentenced in...
Apr 17 2018 // A Delaware lawmaker and his wife, who serves as Wilmington’s city treasurer, are continuing their fight in a long-running legal battle stemming from a home-improvement contract.A judge was to hear arguments Monday on...
Apr 4 2018 // A Delaware judge says a paralegal injured while playing on his law firm’s softball team is not entitled to workers’ compensation.The judge ruled late last week that Delaware’s Industrial Accident Board...
Mar 28 2018 // A lawsuit against Delaware’s largest private landowner and other companies is moving forward, saying “systemic concealed defects” are threatening to collapse the terraces on 63 waterfront homes that were...
Mar 22 2018 // Delaware’s top court has denied the appeal of the man convicted of masterminding the murder-for-hire killings of his business partner and the partner’s wife.The News Journal reports the Delaware Supreme Court...
Mar 9 2018 // A Delaware-based auto service contract company is under investigation following complaints from customers around the country.The News Journal reports that a recorded message at American Standard Auto Protection in...
Mar 7 2018 // A Delaware judge says insurers may be on the hook for $190 million to settle two lawsuits stemming from a 2013 buyout in which Dole Food chairman and CEO David Murdock took the company private. In a ruling late last week,...
Mar 1 2018 // An insurance company has given four Delaware organizations $325,000 in grants to combat the state’s opioid crisis.The News Journal of Wilmington reports Highmark Delaware President Tim Constantine announced the...
Feb 13 2018 // Health officials are testing lead levels in the blood of children whose parents work at a central Indiana lead smelting plant amid concerns those workers are tracking lead home on their clothing, exposing their kids to the...
Feb 13 2018 // Delaware Governor John Carney has authorized the National Guard to assist residents of a southern Delaware town after the discovery of high levels of toxic chemicals in municipal wells. Authorities said that the Guard has...