All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 7 2005 // Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell has sent a letter to President George W. Bush regarding last weekend’s flooding along the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers. Because many of the flood-impacted areas suffered extensive,...
Apr 6 2005 // Even after investment income is considered, underwriting private passenger automobile insurance in Delaware has been unprofitable for the past five years, according to a study done by the Property Casualty Insurers...
Apr 6 2005 // After Hurricane Ivan filled their little ranch house in Easton, Pa. with several feet of water, Dale and Charlotte Barr spent $40,000 to get it back in shape, doing most of the work themselves. They were just about to...
Apr 4 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn and a bi-partisan group of legislative leaders, physicians, and civic leaders announced today a series of initiatives to address Delaware’s medical malpractice insurance...
Apr 1 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has initiated a crackdown by his department on auto insurance fraud.Denn announced several policy changes in the way auto insurance fraud cases are handled, including makeing them...
Mar 18 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has asked the Senate Public Safety Committee to send Senate Bill 20, a bipartisan bill improving the state’s enforcement tools against uninsured drivers, to the full Senate...
Mar 16 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn urged the Senate Insurance and Elections Committee to pass Senate Bill 2, which would prohibit the use of credit scoring in auto and homeowners insurance policies in Delaware. Denn...
Mar 16 2005 // A Delaware bill that would ban insurers from using credit history to underwrite auto and homeowner policies would raise prices for most insurance consumers, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of...
Mar 9 2005 // Edward Levy, president and chief executive officer of Delaware Valley Underwriting Agency Inc. in Hatboro, Pa., announced new management assignments effective immediately.Rita Hanebury assumes responsibility as vice...
Feb 28 2005 // Brimingham,Alabanama-based medcial malpractice insurer ProAssurance Corporation (NYSE: PRA) and NCRIC Group, Inc., our of Washington, D.C., (NASDAQ: NCRI) announced an agreement to merge NCRIC into ProAssurance in a $69.6...
Feb 9 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn, in his fiscal year 2006 budget presentation to the Joint Finance Committee, outlined plans to reform his office structure in order to focus it on protecting the interests of...
Jan 27 2005 // Delaware Democratic Gov. Ruth Ann Minner outlined her agenda for the coming year in the first state of the state address of her second term. Her agenda includes lowering workers’ compensation costs and improving...
Jan 20 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matthew Denn planned to reveal a new regulation today that will require insurance companies to provide prominent annual disclosures to each homeowner’s policyholder of where there...
Jan 17 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn, State Senator David Sokola and State Representative Donna Stone have unveiled bi-partisan legislation which will allow the state to increase enforcement of its uninsured motorist...
Jan 10 2005 // Wasting little time acting on one of his campaign promises, new Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn announced he will support a bill being introduced that seeks to ban the use of credit scores by insurers in personal...
Dec 20 2004 // State regulators are asking Delaware insurance agents to fess up if they’ve been engaging in illegal conduct.In the wake of alleged industry abuses in New York, the Delaware Department of Insurance is asking more...
Dec 20 2004 // Leaving aside the insurance brokerage compensation investigations, the World Trade Center trial, the St. Paul-Travelers merger and the UnumProvident settlement, all of which have their roots in this region but grew to...
Nov 3 2004 // Democrat Matthew P. Denn, former legal counsel to Gov. Ruth Ann Minner, caught 53 percent of the vote to win the insurance commissioner’s race over Rep. David Ennis, (R-Wilmington), who garnered 47 percent.Denn...
Oct 29 2004 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Jerry Pappert has filed a civil lawsuit in Commonwealth Court accusing 16 defendants of engaging in an elaborate statewide living trust sales scheme, that deceived older Pennsylvanians into...
Oct 26 2004 // Sea Watch International Ltd. has been fined $9,000 by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) because of safety violations at its Milford, Del. clam processing plant where unexploded vintage...