All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 17 2006 // A Delaware House committee has tabled a bill that would allow the state to use a portion of the Delaware Blue Cross system’s excess reserves to subsidize malpractice insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk...
Feb 23 2006 // Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Company reported the signing of a definitive agreement under which HRH will buy the stock of Zutz Associates Inc., Delaware’s largest independently-owned insurance agency. Terms of the...
Feb 15 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn asked for additional staff to investigate complaints against insurance companies and agents as well as fund an Internet insurance rate comparison service that would be the only one...
Feb 8 2006 // A lawsuit accusing Delaware Department of Insurance officials of violating the Freedom of Information Act has devolved into a war of words between the owner of a defensive driving school and the judge hearing the...
Feb 5 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has asked Delaware businesses to submit requests for classification changes for workers’ compensation. According to Denn, some business owners have said they have been...
Jan 31 2006 // Three dozen insurance industry representatives walked Delaware’s Legislative Hall of the state capitol last week to meet with state legislators and discuss pending bills on the use of credit history, workers’...
Jan 23 2006 // The Coast Guard has concluded that a lost anchor in the Delaware River was the main cause of a November 2004 oil spill now ranked among the worst in the mid-Atlantic region.Investigators have cleared the shipper and pilots...
Jan 20 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has asked Delaware businesses to submit requests for classification changes under the workers’ compensation insurance system if they believe that changes would make more...
Jan 9 2006 // The Delaware General Assembly will have a full plate of insurance issues on its agenda when it reconvenes on Jan. 10, according to Richard Stokes, regional manager for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America...
Dec 5 2005 // GAB Robins, the international claims services firm, announced that Edward G. Troy has been named president and chief executive officer of the GAB Robins Group of Companies.Before joining GAB Robins, Troy served as...
Dec 4 2005 // GAB Robins, the international claims services firm, announced that Edward G. Troy has been named president and chief executive officer of the GAB Robins Group of Companies.Before joining GAB Robins, Troy served as...
Nov 8 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn said today he would not approve a proposed 10 percent increase in the workers’ compensation insurance rates, telling insurance companies that he would however approve a lower...
Nov 1 2005 // Insurers are challenging a Delaware regulation that limits their ability to base homeowners insurance underwriting decisions on insureds’ past claims history.The American Insurance Association and the Property...
Oct 26 2005 // The First State’s Insurance Commissioner Matthew Denn is today holding what he thinks may be the state’s first true public hearing on workers’ compensation rates.The subject of today’s hearing will...
Oct 24 2005 // In July, James Fry of Dagsboro, e-mailed Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn about an increase in his homeowner insurance premium that he knew couldn’t be right.Fry asked for an explanation of a proposed annual...
Sep 28 2005 // Wilmington Trust, a provider of specialized management and fiduciary services to corporations worldwide, is expanding the reach of its captive insurance management services.Wilmington Trust entered the growing captive...
Sep 15 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn and the Department of Insurance are seeking applicants for the position of director of the department’s newly-revised captive insurance company division. Under a law enacted...
Aug 25 2005 // At a ceremonial bill signing held earlier in the week, the Delaware Captive Insurance Association (DCIA) commended the Delaware General Assembly and Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner for the recent passage of House Bill 218,...
Aug 8 2005 // The 143rd Delaware General Assembly wrapped up its 2005 biennial session with the passage of the budget bill on June 30 and without the passage of legislation that would have negatively impacted insurers according to the...
Aug 8 2005 // NationalPoll Reveals Americans’ Views on Aging: A poll by the MetLife Mature Market Institute conducted by Zogby International shows that 60 percent of Americans believe “old” is age 71 and over, but that...