All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Sep 13 2004 // Matt Denn defeated Karen Weldin Stewart on Sept. 11 in the Democratic primary race for Delaware insurance commissioner.Denn, who resigned as counsel to Gov. Ruth Ann Minner to seek the $93,200-a-year job, Denn won 58...
Sep 7 2004 // Delaware voters face a choice in this year’s election for state insurance commissioner between a Democratic counsel to the current governor who vows to “stand up for Delawareans” and a Republican veteran...
Sep 7 2004 // INSURANCE JOURNAL PUTS CANDIDATES DENN AND ENNIS ON THE RECORD, ON THE ISSUESSeptember 7, 2004–Delaware voters face a choice in this year’s election for state insurance commissioner between a Democratic counsel...
Sep 6 2004 // Delaware voters face a choice in this year’s election for state insurance commissioner between a Democratic counsel to the current governor who vows to “stand up for Delawareans” and a Republican veteran...
Sep 1 2004 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has launched a new Web site, www.stateelections2004.com, to help provide insurance professionals with information about this fall’s state elections.The...
Aug 2 2004 // Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner has signed a number of bills of interest to the property/casualty industry since the 2003-2004 legislative session ended July 1, most recently the personal injury protection legislation and a...
Jul 12 2004 // Delaware lawmakers recently agreed to join the rest of the nation by lowering the blood-alcohol threshold for drunken driving.Lawmakers voted to lower the blood-alcohol concentration considered prima facie evidence that a...
Jul 5 2004 // Lighting up a cigarette in a bar in Georgetown, Delaware is unlawful, but you can get more drunk in Delaware than anywhere in the nation and still be allowed to get behind the wheel.“Delaware’s got so many laws...
May 12 2004 // A Republican long-shot for governor and a Democratic favorite for insurance commissioner kicked off their campaigns this week with traditional stops in all three counties in Delaware.Gov. Ruth Ann Minner and U.S. Sen....
Apr 2 2004 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Donna Lee Williams announced the totals of this year’s State financial support of Delaware fire companies. The State’s disbursements come from taxes paid by insurers based on...
Mar 12 2004 // Delaware’s insurance commissioner moved a step closer to dissolving the existing affiliation between CareFirst and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware.Commissioner Donna Lee Williams presided over a hearing to...
Feb 9 2004 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Donna Lee Williams has announced that she will not seek re-election to a fourth term. Williams has decided to devote more time to her family. A Republican first elected in 1992, Williams is...
Feb 6 2004 // The boards of directors of Harleysville Mutual Insurance Company and Harleysville Group Inc. announced that Michael L. Browne has been elected chief executive officer and president of Harleysville Mutual and chief...
Dec 24 2003 // Penn Treaty American Corporation announced the addition of Peter M. Ross to its Board of Directors.“Mr. Ross, 63, will fill the remaining term of Michael F. Grill, the Company’s treasurer, and will be nominated...