Latest Delaware Headlines
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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...
FTX Sues Bankman-Fried, Others to Recoup More Than $1 Billion
Jul 21 2023 // FTX Trading on Thursday sued founder Sam Bankman-Fried and other former executives of the cryptocurrency exchange, seeking to recoup more than $1 billion they allegedly misappropriated before FTX went bankrupt. The...
TD Garden Not Liable for Bruins Fan’s Slip-and-Fall
Jul 20 2023 // TD Garden’s owner Delaware North and its janitorial service are not liable for the injuries an attendee at a Boston Bruins hockey game suffered when he slipped and fell on the Boston arena’s concourse...
Former Delaware Trooper Faces Lawsuit for Theft Scheme Targeting Shipping Firm
Jul 10 2023 // A package reshipping company targeted in a theft scheme by a former Delaware State Police trooper has filed a lawsuit against him and the police agency. TotalTransLogistics LLC said in a complaint filed this week in...
11 People Charged in Alleged $8M Delaware Valley Catalytic Converter Theft Ring
Jul 6 2023 // A Philadelphia towing firm and 10 adults one juvenile have been charged in what prosecutors say is a multi-million dollar theft ring that targeted catalytic converters in the Delaware Valley region. Bucks County District...
Disney Beats Investor Lawsuit Over Feud with DeSantis
Jun 28 2023 // The Walt Disney Co. board did not act negligently when it criticized a sexual identity bill signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Delaware judge ruled on Tuesday, in a case the judge said was improperly directed by a...
University of Delaware Settles Class Action Over COVID Campus Shutdown
Jun 20 2023 // The University of Delaware has agreed to pay $6.3 million to settle a lawsuit over its campus shutdown in 2020 and the halting of in-person classes because of the coronavirus pandemic. According to court papers that were...
Delaware County, Police Seek Dismissal of Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Jun 8 2023 // Attorneys for Delaware’s largest county and three police officers asked a federal judge on Tuesday to rule in their favor in a lawsuit stemming from a fatal police shooting in 2021. The family of Lymond Moses is...
Tesla’s $2.6 Billion SolarCity Buyout Ruled Fair as Dismissal of Shareholder Suit Upheld
Jun 7 2023 // esla Inc.’s $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 was “entirely fair” to shareholders, Delaware’s top court ruled, upholding the dismissal of an investor lawsuit and sparing Elon Musk from a...
Delaware Supreme Court Rules Franchise Law Does Not Ban Tesla Dealership
May 17 2023 // Delaware’s Supreme Court on Monday overturned a judge’s ruling upholding a decision by state officials to prohibit electric vehicle maker Tesla from selling its cars directly to customers. In a ruling last...
