All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 13 2016 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart approved the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau (DCRB)’s workers’ compensation amended rate filing, which recommends no changes in the overall levels of...
Oct 10 2016 // A Wilmington man convicted of the murder-for-hire killings of his business partner and the partner’s wife will spend the rest of his life in prison. Thirty-four-year-old Christopher Rivers received two life sentences...
Oct 6 2016 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart is encouraging Delaware residents to take action now to prepare for potential damages and interruptions from Hurricane Matthew.Although it is too early to predict the...
Sep 29 2016 // A federal judge has ruled that an insurance company is obligated to defend the ex-wife of serial political candidate Richard Korn in a defamation lawsuit he filed against her.Liberty Mutual argued that a homeowner’s...
Sep 20 2016 // As the number of overdose deaths from prescription painkillers has soared in recent years, pharmaceutical companies that manufacture opioid painkillers, and allied advocacy groups, have donated more than $500,000 to state...
Sep 19 2016 // Delaware State Police say a woman who died after tumbling from a zip line ride fell from a platform about 35 feet off the ground.Authorities say 59-year-old Tina Werner of Felton was waiting to descend on the zip line at...
Sep 7 2016 // Hundreds of banana farmers from Central America and South America will again have their day in court, after a U.S. appeals court on Friday revived six lawsuits accusing several big fruit and chemical companies of sickening...
Sep 6 2016 // Delaware officials said an accidental fire caused $100,000 in damage to a home in Wilmington. The Delaware Office of the State Fire Marshal said in a statement that the Cranston Heights Fire Company responded to a fire in...
Aug 29 2016 // Delaware State Police say a woman who died after tumbling from a zip line ride fell from a platform about 35 feet off the ground.Authorities say 59-year-old Tina Werner of Felton was waiting to descend on the zip line...
Aug 22 2016 // A judge says New Castle County, Delaware’s former chief administrative officer can proceed with a defamation suit over his firing last year by County Executive Tom Gordon.While dismissing David Grimaldi’s...
Aug 22 2016 // Delaware Governor Jack Markell has signed legislation that establishes insurance requirements for transportation network companies and their drivers, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America...
Aug 12 2016 // Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a diner and a pharmacy in Milton, Dela. Milton police said officers responded to the fire after observing heavy smoke coming from the structure that...
Aug 12 2016 // Delaware Governor Jack Markell has signed legislation that establishes insurance requirements for transportation network companies and their drivers, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America...
Jul 25 2016 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executives and directors persuaded a federal appeals court on Friday to reject shareholder claims that they permitted and then covered up pervasive bribery by officials at the world’s largest...
Jun 30 2016 // Insurance Office of America (IOA) of Longwood, Florida, has acquired Thomas J. Hornung & Associates, an independent insurance agency in the Wilmington, Delaware area. Thomas J. Hornung, who founded the agency in 1997,...
Jun 30 2016 // A federal judge this week blasted Delaware’s practice of collecting abandoned property, issuing a ruling that could have dire budget consequences for the state.U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Sleet said...
Jun 10 2016 // Be careful with that thing. It could put someone’s eye out.That’s the upshot from a Sussex County, Delaware, judge’s ruling that State Farm doesn’t have to indemnify a policyholder in a paintball...
Jun 3 2016 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced Thursday that she has received rate request filings from Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware, Aetna Inc. and Aetna Life for individual and small group...
May 23 2016 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart has fined insurance companies a total of $83,300 during the first quarter of 2016 for violating state insurance regulations.Fines generally result from a market conduct...
May 6 2016 // Delaware Gov. Jack Markell is pledging his support for a bill to toughen penalties for texting or otherwise using a handheld phone while driving.After experiencing a virtual reality demonstration May 3 of the potentially...