All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 15 2015 // Officials say a Delaware city has paid its $15,000 insurance deductible in settling a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union after a white police officer kicked a black suspect in the head and broke his...
Dec 15 2015 // The Delaware Department of Insurance is reminding auto insurers that broad release language in settlement agreements which technically preclude a personal injury protection (PIP) carrier from pursuing its subrogation claim...
Dec 7 2015 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced that insurers will issue more than $2 million in rebates to 14,399 health insurance policyholders in Delaware as a result of the Affordable Care Act’s...
Dec 7 2015 // Delaware Gov. Jack Markell presented Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart with a proclamation on Nov. 9 recognizing the Department of Insurance’s (DOI) licensing of its 1,000 captive insurer, AWI Inc. of...
Dec 4 2015 // Energy pipeline operator Kinder Morgan Inc. is on the hook for the bulk of $171 million in damages owed to investors in an affiliate of El Paso Corp., which Kinder Morgan acquired in 2014, a Delaware judge ruled on...
Nov 20 2015 // One of the most important venues for U.S. corporate disputes, Delaware’s Court of Chancery, will lose one of its five judges when Vice Chancellor John Noble retires in February.Noble, 64, informed Delaware Governor...
Nov 17 2015 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart today announced the approval of Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau (DCRB)’s workers’ compensation amended rate filing, resulting in an overall average...
Nov 16 2015 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced that her department will not approve any auto insurance company’s rate submission that includes a “widow’s penalty,” under which a...
Nov 16 2015 // The Hilb Group, a middle market insurance agency based in Richmond, Virginia, hired David Hobbs as president and chief operating officer.The title of president was previously held by Chief Executive Officer Robert Hilb and...
Nov 12 2015 // The Delaware Department of Insurance issued a bulletin to all insurance carriers doing business in Delaware, warning them to look out for deceptive invoices. The bulletin No. 80 (“Deceptive Solicitation From...
Nov 10 2015 // Delaware Gov. Jack Markell presented Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart with a proclamation Monday recognizing the Department of Insurance’s (DOI) licensing of its 1,000 captive insurance company, AWI Inc....
Oct 29 2015 // The fall marks a new administrative year for Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The...
Oct 22 2015 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced Wednesday that her department will not approve any auto insurance company’s rate submission that includes a “widow’s penalty,” under...
Oct 19 2015 // Delaware has issued a bulletin prohibiting the use of price optimization in insurance pricing.The Delaware Department of Insurance said in its Bulletin No. 78 on Oct. 1 that “while price optimization has no...
Oct 19 2015 // For the second year in a row, Delaware’s annual pumpkin flinging contest has been squashed.Organizers of the World Championship Punkin Chunkin said on Oct. 8 that this year’s event, scheduled for Nov. 7 and 8...
Oct 13 2015 // A Delaware judge on Oct. 9 said Boston Scientific should only have to pay $10 million to a woman originally awarded $100 million by a jury who found she was injured by transvaginal mesh, a device that is the subject of...
Oct 9 2015 // For the second year in a row, Delaware’s annual pumpkin flinging contest has been squashed.Organizers of the World Championship Punkin Chunkin said Thursday that this year’s event, scheduled for next month at...
Oct 6 2015 // Delaware has issued a bulletin prohibiting the use of price optimization in insurance pricing.The Delaware Department of Insurance said in its Bulletin No. 78 on Oct. 1 that “while price optimization has no...
Sep 25 2015 // Delaware officials are celebrating the completion of a statewide effort to improve safety in public schools.Delaware Gov. Jack Markell joined education and law enforcement officials Tuesday to recognize the completion of...
Sep 22 2015 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart and the Delaware Department of Insurance announced that the Department has recovered $995,558 for consumers during the first six months of 2015.The Delaware Department...