All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 21 2015 // A Delaware judge signaled on Thursday that the rules are changing for shareholder class actions challenging corporate mergers, which are widely criticized for reaping millions dollars in lawyers’ fees while rarely...
Sep 18 2015 // The fall marks a new administrative year for the Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group (IA&B) in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and its partnership of agents’ associations. The following directors have...
Sep 3 2015 // The Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau (DCRB) announced that it has submitted to the Delaware Department of Insurance a filing of revisions to the state’s Residual Market Plan, voluntary market loss costs and...
Aug 31 2015 // Officials in numerous Delaware cities have asked drivers who use the ride-hailing app Uber to obtain business licenses.The News Journal of Wilmington reports that under a deal struck by Delaware and the company this year,...
Aug 11 2015 // Delaware Gov. Jack Markell signed legislation aimed at improving fire safety for homeowners in Delaware. The bill, signed on Aug. 6, requires builders of new single-family and two-family homes to provide buyers a cost...
Aug 10 2015 // Delaware officials have decided not to develop the state’s own health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act and instead will keep the current federal partnership model.Delaware was granted approval in June...
Aug 3 2015 // The Hartford named A. Morris “Mo” Tooker as executive vice president and chief underwriting officer for the company’s property/casualty insurance businesses.Tooker will oversee underwriting across The...
Jul 30 2015 // AAA Mid-Atlantic says Delaware drivers need to slow down and pay better attention when behind the wheel. Alarmed by an upward trend in road deaths this year, the motor club says too many drivers are engaging in unsafe...
Jul 20 2015 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced Monday the appointment of attorney Hardy Drane as deputy commissioner for the Delaware Department of Insurance. “I am happy to announce that I talked...
Jun 30 2015 // General Motors Co. directors don’t have to face investors’ allegations that lax supervision allowed the company to make cars with faulty ignition systems blamed for more than 100 people their lives.GM’s...
Jun 26 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the tax subsidies for health insureds across the country including those in states without their own health exchanges that use the federal health insurance exchange. The following...
Jun 26 2015 // Delaware’s governor has signed into law a ban on companies adopting rules that could force investors who bring and lose certain lawsuits to pay the company’s legal costs, disappointing business groups.The U.S....
Jun 19 2015 // Delaware Gov. Jack Markell (D) on Thursday signed into law a bill to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. The bill signing makes Delaware the 20th state in the nation to decriminalize possession of...
Jun 15 2015 // The Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles has announced an agreement between state officials and Uber officially allowing the smartphone-powered private car service to operate in the state under new regulations.Over the last...
Jun 1 2015 // A Delaware jury has ordered a medical device manufacturer to pay $100 million to a woman who, despite two surgeries, still has pieces of transvaginal mesh embedded inside her.The News Journal of Wilmington reports the...
May 29 2015 // Alpha Natural Resources must pay the legal expenses of Donald Blankenship, the former chief executive officer of Massey Energy, which Alpha acquired in 2011.The fight over fees arose from charges filed against Blankenship...
May 11 2015 // In the hours after a horrific storm — a storm like Superstorm Sandy — with bridges impassable and roads debris-covered, emergency response is often the first concern.But with an autonomous drone, researchers...
May 6 2015 // Delaware insurance producers’ administrative burden when placing business in the surplus lines market will be lighter thanks to passage of House Bill 40 on Tuesday in the state General Assembly, the Delaware...
Apr 29 2015 // An insurance company is asking a federal judge in Delaware to declare that it’s not obligated to defend the ex-wife of serial political candidate Richard Korn against his defamation lawsuit. Liberty Mutual argues in...
Apr 20 2015 // An insurance empire that included two insurance carriers, two offshore reinsurers, several buildings and other insurers’ investments was built by a private equity firm in part on questionable assets and is now being...