All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 2 2013 // Police in Delaware issued more than 2,000 tickets to drivers in a crackdown on using handheld cellphones behind the wheel. The Department of Highway Safety says the tickets were issued over two weeks in April in the second...
Apr 22 2013 // A state panel looking at soaring workers compensation rates in Delaware is considering a two-year freeze on inflation-based fee increases for medical providers.The proposal is one of several the panel was to consider at...
Apr 15 2013 // A state panel looking at soaring workers compensation rates in Delaware is considering whether injured workers should be paid total disability benefits for 90 days even if they can perform light duty in the workplace. The...
Mar 29 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the issuer credit ratings (ICR) to “a+” from “a” and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) of the Odyssey Reinsurance Group members....
Mar 28 2013 // A new study says medical claims costs in Delaware will increase by almost 30 percent for individual policies under President Obama’s health care reform plan. The report released Tuesday by the Society of Actuaries...
Feb 19 2013 // More than 100 turned out for the first of three public meetings on preparations for rising sea levels in Delaware. The first meeting was held Wednesday afternoon at Cape Henlopen High School in Lewes. The options being...
Jan 30 2013 // The Delaware Department of Insurance announced recently the final projection for the number of captive licenses the captive bureau anticipates issuing for 2012.The regulators said 2012 was the best year ever for the...
Jan 17 2013 // Delaware’s Office of Highway Safety says there were 116 traffic fatalities in the state in 2012, a 12 percent increase over 2011. The office says the increase was driven by a spike in crashes involving pedestrians...
Jan 17 2013 // Major U.S. news organizations have urged a federal appeals court to prevent Delaware from allowing sitting judges to arbitrate business disputes in private, saying the system raised suspicions of preferential treatment for...
Jan 16 2013 // A Hong Kong arbitration panel has ruled that China MediaExpress Holdings Inc. was a “fraudulent enterprise” and awarded $77 million to Starr Investments, a firm run by former AIG chief Maurice Greenberg, a U.S....
Jan 14 2013 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced on Jan. 4 the approval of an amended filing submitted by the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau Inc. (DCRB) which proposed an overall average increase of 14.6...
Jan 4 2013 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart today announced action taken with respect to workers’ compensation insurance rates and loss costs effective Dec. 1, 2012.Commissioner Stewart approved an amended...
Dec 14 2012 // Delaware’s insurance department announced it has fined State Farm Fire and Casualty Company a $150,000 penalty for failing to include in some of its non-renewal notices a written explanation of the specific reasons...
Dec 3 2012 // Lyons Companies, Delaware’s largest privately-owned commercial insurance brokerage and employee benefits consulting firm, appointed Michael F. McDonald as risk management advisor.Michael F. McDonaldMcDonald...
Nov 8 2012 // Neil Alldredge has been searching for the unifying “theme” in the results of Nov. 6 state elections around the country but he says it has not been easy to identify one.As senior vice president for state and...
Nov 7 2012 // Democrat Karen Weldin Stewart was re-elected to a second term as Delaware’s insurance commissioner on Tuesday, defeating Republican challenger Benjamin Mobley.Karen Weldin Stewart was re-elected as Delaware's...
Nov 5 2012 // For the insurance industry, there is more at stake in the Nov. 6 election than who goes to or stays in the White House and Congress.The insurance industry will be watching who wins the gubernatorial races in 11 states,...
Nov 4 2012 // [Update: Maine also announced this week that hurricane deductibles would not apply for Sandy-related claims in the state. The Maine Bureau of Insurance told Insurance Journal Monday, Nov. 5, that hurricane deductibles will...
Nov 2 2012 // Insurers said Sandy-related claims have been pouring in at a rapid pace in the immediate days after the storm — and that as some sense of normalcy returns, many more claims are expected.The Progressive Corp. CEO...
Oct 25 2012 // The Libertarian Party candidate for Delaware insurance commissioner is suspending his campaign and endorsing the Republican challenger seeking to unseat a Democratic incumbent.David Eisenhour said Wednesday that while...