All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 3 2014 // For the first time, Dover, Delaware, police are using a team of officers to target drivers who text and talk on the road. The department says that despite many campaigns to spread awareness that it’s illegal to use...
Sep 29 2014 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said actor-comedian Tracy Morgan is to blame for injuries he sustained in June highway crash because he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.Morgan, who was critically injured when the limousine bus he was...
Sep 18 2014 // The owner of a Maryland-based insurer faces fraud charges for inflating the ratings of his company to win business, according to an indictment which seeks to recover more than $100 million in premiums his clients...
Sep 11 2014 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced that she has named Jerry Grant as communications director for the Department of Insurance. Grant spent nine years with the Democratic Caucus in the Delaware...
Sep 8 2014 // A Delaware panel established to oversee efforts to keep the state’s workers’ comp rates affordable is getting down to work. Delaware’s Workers Compensation Oversight Panel is charged with creating a new...
Sep 2 2014 // Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group (IA&B) in Mechanicsburg, Penn., and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania announced officers for the new administrative year...
Aug 29 2014 // NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company, a medical professional liability insurance carrier domiciled in San Francisco, said it is now offering its medical professional liability coverage to healthcare professionals in Delaware...
Aug 26 2014 // A Delaware panel established to oversee efforts to keep the state’s workers compensation rates affordable is getting down to work.Delaware’s Workers Compensation Oversight Panel is charged with creating a new...
Aug 8 2014 // A federal judge says a Maryland businessman will remain in custody pending trial on charges of lying to Delaware insurance regulators.Jeffrey Cohen is the founder and former CEO of Indemnity Insurance Corp., which...
Jul 28 2014 // The Delaware Department of Insurance reported that regulators recovered more than $1.4 million for consumers in the first six months of 2014. This amount represents an increase of 49.57 percent in funds recovered for...
Jul 28 2014 // The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed last Wednesday a lower court ruling that ordered Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to provide a shareholder with documents related to the company’s internal probe of allegations the retailer...
Jul 21 2014 // Delaware lawmakers last month approved legislation aimed at lowering the state’s workers’ compensation insurance costs.Delaware House Bill 373 (“An Act to Amend Titles 18 and 19 of the Delaware Code...
Jul 10 2014 // More than 6.5 million homes along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of storm surge inundation, representing nearly $1.5 trillion in total potential reconstruction costs. More than $986 billion of that risk is...
Jul 6 2014 // Six insurance companies are suing an asbestos personal injury trust set up by a U.S. unit of Philips that the insurers suspect has been making millions of dollars in fraudulent payments to parties that cannot prove they...
Jul 2 2014 // Delaware authorities are holding the state’s first sobriety checkpoint for drivers this weekend.The first checkpoint for the 14th annual checkpoint campaign is scheduled for Friday, the Fourth of July, in Newport....
Jun 27 2014 // Delaware lawmakers have given final approval to legislation aimed at lowering workers’ compensation insurance rates in Delaware.The bill approved unanimously by the Senate on Wednesday calls for a 33 percent...
Jun 26 2014 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart is alerting drivers in Delaware that as of June 25, 2014, state law enforcement officials can accept proof of auto insurance (insurance ID card) in either physical or...
Jun 16 2014 // A proposed increase in the first-time penalty for using a handheld cell phone or other electronic device while driving is making progress in the Delaware General Assembly.The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware, reports...
Jun 11 2014 // Big business is lobbying Delaware lawmakers for corporate bylaws to shift legal fees to shareholders who sue and lose, which legal experts say could curtail a booming type of investor class actions.An affiliate of the U.S....
Jun 2 2014 // Delaware lawmakers are expected to act quickly on recommendations from a state task force aimed at lowering workers’ compensation insurance rates.The task force presented lawmakers a report on May 15 proposing that...