All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 23 2019 // Johnson & Johnson wants a federal judge to take over more than 2,000 baby-powder lawsuits it faces instead of allowing the cases to be heard by state-court juries, where the company has a mixed record.The world’s...
Apr 2 2019 // Travis Kalanick, the co-founder of ride-hailing company Uber, and the company’s directors won the dismissal of an investor lawsuit that sought to hold them liable for a fight over trade secrets that slowed...
Mar 19 2019 // Delaware authorities say a house fire in a neighborhood near the coast was an accident.The Delaware Office of the State Fire Marshal issued a news release saying that it had ruled the fire in Sussex County, Delaware, was...
Mar 18 2019 // CBS Corp. directors agreed to settle for $1.25 million investors’ claims that network owner Sumner Redstone received millions of dollars in improper compensation after he became incapacitated in 2014.The money...
Mar 15 2019 // A Delaware lawmaker who owns a house damaged by a fire that started in an adjacent city-owned dwelling has lost her bid to revive a federal lawsuit. Rep. Stephanie Bolden, a Wilmington Democrat, claimed that the city...
Feb 25 2019 // There’s no dispute that a $48.9 billion merger announced in 2015 between health insurers Anthem Inc. and Cigna Corp. imploded two years later over antitrust concerns. Now, the question is whether one owes the other...
Feb 15 2019 // State environmental officials say a southern Delaware poultry processing facility with a history of wastewater violations has reported an accidental discharge of up to 1 million gallons of partially treated...
Jan 29 2019 // The Delaware Department of Transportation says a contractor who fell through a trench on a construction site broke both his legs.The News Journal reports that the Carrow Construction crew was digging a trench Friday as...
Jan 28 2019 // Officials in Delaware say a data breach at a third-party administrator for health insurance companies has affected five companies and 650 consumers. The Department of Insurance announced Thursday that BenefitMall’s...
Jan 24 2019 // In 2018, Delaware licensed 46 newly formed captive insurers despite a challenging environment, according to Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro in a press release issued by the Delaware Insurance...
Jan 23 2019 // The family of a Maryland man crushed by a van in a Delaware junk yard is suing the business for up to $20 million for gross negligence, wrongful death and other claims.The News Journal of Wilmington reports the family of...
Jan 18 2019 // Two companies battling for a share of more than $14 billion in mandated safety upgrades on U.S. railroads are set to collide in federal court to resolve a dispute over technology that prevents train...
Jan 14 2019 // Delaware authorities say a demolition company leader died while supervising work at an old automobile plant. Delaware State Police said the death occurred Friday afternoon at the former General Motors plant in Wilmington,...
Dec 28 2018 // A Delaware judge has ruled that a medical marijuana user fired from his factory job after failing a drug test can pursue a lawsuit against his former employer.Jeremiah Chance was fired in 2016 from his job as a yard...
Dec 14 2018 // A Schenectady, N.Y., contractor has been convicted of first-degree murder in a scheme to kill a man for life insurance money.A jury convicted 54-year-old Tarchand Lall on Wednesday for hiring hit men from Delaware to kill...
Nov 19 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurance rates will decrease for the second year in a row in Delaware, effective Dec. 1, 2018. “I am delighted to approve yet another decrease in workers’ compensation rates in...
Nov 2 2018 // Equipment failure at a Delaware refinery caused an explosion that has sent three workers to the hospital.News outlets report the Office of the State Fire Marshal said in a release the Delaware City Refinery was the site of...
Oct 23 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurance rates will decrease for the second year in a row in Delaware, effective December 1, 2018.“I am delighted to approve yet another decrease in workers’ compensation rates in...
Sep 26 2018 // Delaware Governor John Carney on Thursday nominated a corporate lawyer and a court official to fill two newly created openings on the state’s influential Court of Chancery, which is a major venue for major...
Sep 18 2018 // A woman has been killed and two men have been critically injured after being struck by a train in Delaware.Police in Georgetown say the three were hit by a Carload Express train early Sunday morning as they walked on...