All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 4 2020 // A Delaware judge is holding a hearing in a lawsuit over the secret filming of women and girls in a restaurant bathroom.Tuesday’s hearing involves a lawsuit filed in 2018 by the mother of two young girls. The...
Feb 24 2020 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Delaware’s largest city involving deaths and injuries of firefighters who responded to an arson.The lawsuit sought to hold Wilmington officials liable for the deaths of...
Feb 14 2020 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro responded strongly to a Consumer Federation of America report that Delaware service members may return home from deployment to increased auto insurance premiums, calling the...
Feb 12 2020 // Federal authorities have filed a lawsuit seeking judgment against an Italian shipping line for damage allegedly caused by one of its ships to a jetty along the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.The lawsuit filed Thursday in...
Feb 10 2020 // The Delaware Department of Insurance has analyzed new filings from the state’s top writers of workers’ compensation insurance after announcing the third consecutive year of decreased rates in November.The top...
Jan 31 2020 // Delaware’s Supreme Court has overturned a judge’s ruling that an insurance company must extend liability coverage to a teenager who was convicted of criminally negligent homicide after a school bathroom attack...
Jan 21 2020 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro was appointed chair of the National Association of Insurance Commissioner’s Antifraud Task Force.Commissioner Navarro previously served as vice-chair of the committee...
Dec 23 2019 // The DuPont Co. is asking a Delaware judge to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that it massively downplayed the cost of environmental liabilities that Chemours would be saddled with when DuPont spun off its former performance...
Dec 17 2019 // The state Supreme Court has refused a request by Delaware’s attorney general to review a judge’s decision dismissing Walgreens as a defendant in Delaware’s lawsuit against the drug industry over the...
Dec 9 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether the state of Delaware’s system of requiring ideologically balanced courts is lawful.The nine justices will hear the state’s appeal of an April ruling by...
Dec 6 2019 // A judge who dismissed Walgreens as a defendant in Delaware’s lawsuit against the drug industry over the opioid crisis has denied the government’s request to certify an appeal to Delaware’s Supreme...
Nov 19 2019 // A shareholder lawsuit filed on Monday accused Boeing Co.’s board of doing nothing to investigate the safety of the 737 MAX until the fast-selling plane suffered a second deadly crash in five months.The lawsuit is the...
Nov 15 2019 // DuPont de Nemours Inc.’s ex-top executive is backtracking on claims the chemical maker never intended to saddle its spinoff Chemours Co. with “unlimited exposure” for liabilities.Ellen Kullman, who...
Nov 6 2019 // Relation Insurance Services, a privately owned insurance brokerage that offers property and casualty, risk management, employee benefits and TPA-consulting services through its family of brands across the U.S., has...
Nov 4 2019 // A federal lawsuit has accused top Delaware insurance department officials of workplace sexual and racial harassment.The Delaware News Journal reports an insurance department employee announced the suit Wednesday accusing...
Nov 1 2019 // A federal lawsuit has accused top Delaware insurance department officials of workplace sexual and racial harassment.The Delaware News Journal reports an insurance department employee announced the suit Wednesday accusing...
Oct 24 2019 // DuPont de Nemours Inc. never intended to saddle its spinoff Chemours Co. with “unlimited exposure” to its liabilities, DuPont’s former chief executive officer said, sending Chemours stock up sharply.Ellen...
Oct 15 2019 // Delaware is set to see a decrease in workers’ compensation insurance rates for the third year in a row, effective December 1, 2019.“I am delighted to approve a decrease in workers’ compensation rates in...
Sep 19 2019 // A Delaware woman has been indicted by a Sussex County Grand Jury for two counts of insurance fraud and one count of identity theft following an investigation by the Delaware Department of Insurance Fraud Prevention...
Sep 11 2019 // Delaware’s attorney general is suing members of the family that controls OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, accusing them of consumer fraud, negligence and creating a public nuisance.Monday’s court filing follows...