Latest Delaware Headlines

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Woman Gets 5-10 Years for Workers’ Comp Scam of Family Dollar, Restaurant

Mar 1 2024 // A Delaware woman will serve 5 to 10 years in state prison for a workers’ compensation scam that spanned 2.5 years, two states, and cost a Pennsylvania employer more than $170,000, according to Pennsylvania Attorney...

Long-Serving Delaware Chancery Court Judge to Retire at Year’s End

Feb 21 2024 // Delaware’s nationally important Court of Chancery, which has come under criticism from Elon Musk this month, is losing its second-longest-serving judge.Sam Glasscock, who has served on the go-to venue for U.S....

Fate of Most Remaining Zantac Lawsuits Weighed by Delaware Judge

Jan 26 2024 // GSK, Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies are urging a judge in Delaware this week to find that evidence plaintiffs’ lawyers want to use in about 72,000 lawsuits claiming that the discontinued heartburn drug...

People Moves: Nunnally Joins Alliant in Boston; Hilb Names Harm to Carrier Relations; Arthur Hall Promotes Marshall

Jan 18 2024 // Chris Nunnally joined Alliant Insurance Services as senior vice president within its employee benefits group. Nunnally is based in Boston, Massachusetts.Before working with Alliant, Nunnally was area vice president within...

Judge Limits Delaware’s Sweeping Climate Change Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Companies

Jan 14 2024 // A judge has rejected several claims lodged by Delaware’s attorney general in a lawsuit alleging that the fossil fuel industry has downplayed the risks of climate change. Tuesday’s ruling significantly narrows...

Delaware Hospital System to Pay $47 Million to Settle Billing Fraud Claims

Dec 27 2023 // Delaware’s largest hospital system will pay more than $47 million to settle whistleblower allegations by its former compliance officer that it provided kickbacks to outside doctors in return for patient referrals,...

Ohio Settles Lawsuit With Chemical Companies For $110 Million Over PFAS Contamination

Dec 1 2023 // DOVER, Del. (AP) – The DuPont Co. and two spin-off firms will pay $110 million to the state of Ohio to settle a lawsuit over environmental threats from toxic chemicals used at a former DuPont facility in neighboring West...

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Delaware’s Captive Insurance Documents Battle With IRS

Nov 21 2023 // The state of Delaware has lost its fight with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over the release of information on captive insurers, a fight the state took all the way to the Supreme Court.The Supreme Court on Monday...

Frederick Mutual Exiting Personal Lines; Signs Renewal Deal With Farmers of Salem

Nov 8 2023 // Frederick Mutual, which is exiting the personal lines market and focusing strictly on commercial lines in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions, has reached a renewal rights agreement with another insurer for the bulk of...

Medical Costs for Injured Workers in Delaware Fell During Pandemic: WCRI Study

Oct 13 2023 // Changes in the availability of medical services during the pandemic was one of the drivers of Delaware workers’ compensation claims costs in 2020 and 2021.A new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute...

Delaware Workers’ Compensation Rates to Fall 7% and 11% in December

Oct 12 2023 // Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro announced that Delaware’s workers’ compensation rates will decrease for the seventh year in a row, effective December 1, 2023. The voluntary market is expected to...

Guess Board Agrees to Settle Co-Founder Marciano’s Harassment Case; Insurers Sued

Oct 2 2023 // Guess? Inc. directors agreed to a settlement worth as much as $30 million to resolve claims they turned a blind eye to co-founder Paul Marciano’s harassment of the company’s models despite sexual misconduct...

Delaware: Professional Services Exclusion Didn’t Bar False Claims Act Settlement

Sep 18 2023 // A mortgage lender accused of violating the False Claims Act by approving government-backed loans that did not meet federal guidelines can seek to recover the $15 million it paid to resolve the allegations from its...

Judge Tosses Gun Group’s Challenge to Delaware Public Nuisance Law as Premature

Sep 12 2023 // The federal district court for Delaware has thrown out a suit by a gun rights group challenging a state law that allows the state’s attorney general to sue firearms companies.The law allows lawsuits by the attorney...

Delaware High Court OKs Lien Against Uninsured Motorist Benefits in Workers’ Compensation Case

Sep 7 2023 // The Delaware Supreme Court has broken with its own precedent to rule that a workers’ compensation insurance carrier may assert a lien against benefits an injured employee recovers from other sources.The particular...

Delaware Police to Pay $50K to Man They Blocked From Warning of Speed Trap

Sep 5 2023 // Delaware State Police have agreed to pay $50,000 to resolve a federal lawsuit filed by a man who said troopers violated his constitutional rights by preventing him from warning motorists about a speed trap.A judgment was...

Judge Rejects Newsmax Bid to Narrow Smartmatic Lawsuit Over 2020 US Election

Aug 24 2023 // A Delaware judge on Wednesday rejected Newsmax Media’s bid to narrow the allegedly defamatory statements that the right-wing U.S. television network must defend in a lawsuit by voting machine company Smartmatic USA...

Delaware’s Navarro Warns Producers Not to Blame DOI for Higher Premiums

Aug 9 2023 // The Delaware Department of Insurance is not forcing insurers to raise premiums, and anyone who says otherwise could lose their license and face fines of $10,000, the department warned in a bulletin this week.“The...

Delaware Takes Fight Against IRS Over Captive Insurers’ Data to Supreme Court

Jul 25 2023 // The state of Delaware is going to the Supreme Court in its fight with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over the release of information on captive insurers.This fight has placed Delaware’s state regulation of...

Landlord’s Insurer Denied Recovery for Damage Caused by Tenant’s Drone

Jul 24 2023 // Sathiyaselvam Thangavel’s hijinks with a drone caused more than $77,000 in damage to the apartment building where he lived, but his landlord’s insurer can’t recover that money from Thangavel even though...