All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 27 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has taken arguments against insurance industry use of credit scoring to the U.S. Supreme Court, filing a brief in a pending case involving the practice.Denn recruited 12 other...
Dec 25 2006 // JANUARYHallmark Aquires Aerospace Holdings Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC, which markets general aviation insurance products. Hallmark...
Dec 25 2006 // Allstate Insurance Co., continuing its reappraisal of its hurricane loss exposure along the East Coast, has decided to stop writing new property insurance policies in all areas of Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware.The...
Dec 25 2006 // From Maine to Virginia, agents and adjusters helped property owners dig out from damaging floods. High waters seemed to hit a new state every week. Meanwhile, these same agents had to worry about whether their income was...
Dec 24 2006 // From Maine to Virginia, agents and adjusters helped property owners dig out from damaging floods. High waters seemed to hit a new state every week. Meanwhile, these same agents had to worry about whether their income was...
Dec 24 2006 // Allstate Insurance Co., continuing its reappraisal of its hurricane loss exposure along the East Coast, has decided to stop writing new property insurance policies in all areas of Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware.The...
Dec 24 2006 // JANUARYHallmark Acquires Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC, which markets general aviation insurance products. Hallmark underwrites...
Dec 11 2006 // $1.07 million The fine imposed against the owners of Rhode Island’s The Station nightclub for failing to carry workers’ compensation insurance at the club, the site of a 2003 fire that killed 100 people. Owners...
Dec 8 2006 // Allstate Insurance Co., continuing its reappraisal of its hurricane loss exposure along the East Coast, has decided to stop writing new property insurance policies in all areas of Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware.The...
Dec 5 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn said he would approve no increase in costs for voluntary market workers compensation rates and a 2.7 percent hike in residual market or assigned risk rates.In so doing, he rejected...
Nov 20 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has approved insurance rate cuts for State Farm homeowner policies as well as for private passenger auto policies from three AIG companies, from Harleysville Insurance and from...
Nov 15 2006 // A Delaware court this week accepted a settlement from a group of former Hollinger International Inc. directors who agreed to end a shareholder lawsuit by paying Sun-Times Media Group Inc. $50 million.The settlement, first...
Nov 14 2006 // The Delaware Department of Insurance has created a website that will allow consumers to compare auto insurance rates from more than 50 companies that offer auto insurance in Delaware. The site will use more sample customer...
Nov 10 2006 // Niche insurance underwriter Britt/Paulk has opened a new office in Selbyville, Del. This new office will focus on underwriting the agency’s Timber Harvesting Program.The company also announced that three underwriters...
Oct 19 2006 // The Insurance Agents and Brokers of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland announced its new board members for the upcoming 2006-07 term at its annual board meeting in Baltimore.In addition to appointing board members to...
Oct 19 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn warned consumers about some expected restrictions from homeowners insurance companies for coastal area homes, although he said he does not believe they will be as severe as other...
Oct 16 2006 // Newtown, PA – ProLawyer Insurance, LLC is pleased to announce their Managing General Agent appointment with an A.M. Best “A” (Excellent) rated carrier for Lawyers Professional Liability in Delaware,...
Oct 11 2006 // Newark, Del. officials are anxiously awaiting word from the city’s insurance company on how much of a $38.4 million settlement will be covered, but plan to appeal last week’s judgment by a federal jury in a...
Oct 9 2006 // Civil justice“If the criminal system is not going to follow through and make them accountable, the only thing we have left is the civil system.” James Gahan, whose 21-year-old son, Jimmy, died in The Station...
Oct 5 2006 // Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware and New Jersey have agreed to share the costs of a $500,000 study to examine the effects of operational changes at major reservoirs throughout the entire Delaware River basin.The state will...