All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 17 2008 // One of the state’s most prominent attorneys was ordered in October to pay $41.40 for a traffic accident last April on Interstate-95 near Newport.Former attorney general candidate Ferris Wharton was fined after...
Jan 4 2008 // The state Office of Highway Safety says traffic deaths in Delaware in 2007 fell to the lowest level in 8 years.Figures released show traffic deaths dropped 20 percent last year to 118, the lowest number since 104 deaths...
Jan 4 2008 // In a victory for the insurance industry, a Delaware Superior Court has ruled that the state’s insurance regulator overstepped his authority when he prohibited property insurers from refusing to renew a homeowner...
Nov 15 2007 // Updated Auto Rates Available On compare.delawareinsurance.govDelaware consumers can compare sample auto insurance rates from over 50 companies online via the state’s Insurance Commission Web site. They can then...
Nov 8 2007 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn announced today that he will order an average workers compensation insurance premium cut of 17.75 percent for Delaware employers in the “voluntary” workers compensation...
Nov 4 2007 // A year ago, the emerging stock options backdating scandal was a hot topic, dominating the headlines of the financial pages and commanding the attention of the professional liability industry. The options backdating story...
Nov 4 2007 // A year ago, the emerging stock options backdating scandal was a hot topic, dominating the headlines of the financial pages and commanding the attention of the professional liability industry. The options backdating story...
Nov 4 2007 // A year ago, the emerging stock options backdating scandal was a hot topic, dominating the headlines of the financial pages and commanding the attention of the professional liability industry. The options backdating story...
Oct 29 2007 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn says local authorities in the state are forming a self-insurance pool that will make workers compensation insurance more affordable for the local governments and taxpayers. Denn...
Oct 26 2007 // The Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group held its annual meeting Oct. 17, marking a year that included the inception of the Delaware Association of Insurance Agents & Brokers Inc. into its organization.The...
Sep 19 2007 // The leader of an arson ring that collected more than $400,000 in fraudulent insurance claims for fires in three New York counties is scheduled to surrender Sept. 18 to serve a 10-year federal prison sentence, according to...
Aug 15 2007 // The growing number of year-round residents in Delaware’s southern coastal communities has state officials concerned about evacuation plans for hurricanes and other natural disasters.Officials previously have...
Aug 9 2007 // A Navy doctor who was awarded $41 million in a civil lawsuit against a pedophile priest has filed a second lawsuit against Roman Catholic officials.Attorneys for Cmdr. Kenneth Whitwell, 39, of Quantico, Va., filed the...
Aug 2 2007 // Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner has signed legislation restricting the use of credit information in setting auto and homeowner insurance rates, making Delaware’s credit scoring law one of the toughest in the country...
Jul 13 2007 // The ink is barely dry on a new Delaware law aimed at protecting the legal rights of victims of child sexual abuse, but it’s already being tested.Gov. Ruth Ann Minner signed a law Tuesday that abolishes...
Jul 12 2007 // A Delaware oil refinery worker injured in a practical joke by his co-workers may be allowed to sue them, the state Supreme Court has ruled.Stephen Grabowski was injured in October 2000 when three co-workers grabbed him in...
Jul 8 2007 // A year after a flood heavily damaged the borough of Portland, Pa., the last of the downtown businesses reopened.Duane Smith, the owner of the Portland Market, reopened his business last Friday. Smith said it took so long...
Jun 13 2007 // Steve White has been named director of the Bureau of Company Examination, Regulation and Guaranty (BERG) in the Delaware Department of Insurance, Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn announced.A 13-year employee of the...
May 29 2007 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has unveiled an online homeowner insurance tool that compares rates from 50 insurers and complements an auto insurance rate comparison that has been available since November.Denn...
May 29 2007 // Aetna Inc. in Hartfors, Con. has agreed to buy a Phoenix-based company that manages health care for Medicaid plans and administers employers’ self-funded health plans.The Hartford-based insurer announced Thursday...