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Delaware’s New Legislation Adds Teeth to Certificate of Insurance Regulations
Mar 27 2014 // Delaware legislature on Tuesday passed HB 104 (“An Act to Amend Title 18 of the Delaware Code Relating to Certificates of Insurance”) that aims to curtail the improper use of certificates of insurance. Delaware...
Del. Gov. Nominates Corporate Attorney Bouchard to Lead Chancery Court
Mar 21 2014 // Delaware lawyer Andre Bouchard was nominated on Thursday to replace Leo Strine as the chief judge of the state’s Court of Chancery, one of the premier venues for business disputes, according to a statement by...
Delaware Officials: About 7,000 Enrollments in Health Insurance Exchange
Mar 7 2014 // Delaware state officials say about 7,000 Delawareans have chosen private insurance plans under the federal Affordable Care Act. Delaware’s Health and Social Services Secretary Rita Landgraf told the state Health Care...
Delaware Approves 14% Hike in Workers’ Comp Voluntary Market Loss Costs
Feb 21 2014 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced today that she has approved the re-submission of the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau (DCRB) workers’ compensation rate filing regarding the residual...
Home Insurer Universal P&C to Enter Indiana, Minnesota, Delaware
Feb 6 2014 // Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. (UPCIC), headquartered in Florida, has applied to expand into Indiana, Minnesota and Delaware. UPCIC is one of the leading writers of homeowners insurance in Florida and a...
Florida Home Insurer Universal P&C to Enter Indiana, Minnesota, Delaware
Feb 4 2014 // Florida-based Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. (UPCIC) has applied to expand into Indiana, Minnesota and Delaware. UPCIC is one of the leading writers of homeowners insurance in Florida and a fully licensed...
Oracle Loses Bid to Have D&O Insurer Beazley Pay $20M in Claims Over Acquisition
Jan 16 2014 // Oracle Corp. can’t rely on an insurer to pay $20 million to help settle shareholder claims over the software maker’s acquisition of a company controlled by Oracle founder Larry Ellison, a judge...
Delaware Judge Weighs D&O Insurer’s Obligation in Oracle Settlement
Jan 10 2014 // Attorneys for Oracle Corp. are asking a Delaware judge to order an insurer to pay $20 million to cover attorney fees related to the proposed settlement of a shareholder lawsuit. The lawsuit challenged Oracle’s 2011...
Delaware Chancery Court’s Strine Nominated to Lead State’s Supreme Court
Jan 9 2014 // Leo Strine, the outspoken chief judge of Delaware’s nationally important business court, has been nominated to lead the state’s Supreme Court, Delaware Governor Jack Markell said on Wednesday. The move, if...
Delaware Refinery Owners Win Insurance Lawsuit
Nov 22 2013 // A Delaware judge has ruled for owners of the Delaware City oil refinery in lawsuit over insurance coverage involving the deaths of two workers who suffocated inside a tank. The judge granted summary judgment this week to...
IA&B Service Group Announces New Officers in Del., Md., Penn.
Nov 11 2013 // The fall marks a new administrative year for Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The following directors have been...
Collisions Between Cars, Deer Increasing in Delaware
Nov 4 2013 // The number of collisions between deer and vehicles in Delaware is growing as state officials work to reduce the deer population. Citing statistics released recently by State Farm Insurance, The News Journal of Wilmington...
Nightclub Insurer Founder Fights Delaware Regulator Over Seizure
Oct 30 2013 // Indemnity Insurance Corp., which insures nightclubs, is at the center of a legal tug of war between its founder and the Delaware insurance commissioner. The dispute between company founder Jeffrey B. Cohen and Commissioner...
Federal Court Rules Delaware Business Court’s Private Arbitration Is Unconstitutional
Oct 24 2013 // Delaware’s legal industry suffered a blow when a federal court found on Wednesday the state violated the U.S. Constitution with its novel system of allowing judges to arbitrate private business disputes, which...
Delaware’s Corporate Courts on Brink of Big Change
Oct 3 2013 // Two of the most important courts for resolving U.S. business disputes, Delaware’s Court of Chancery and its state Supreme Court, may be on the cusp of a dramatic turnover that could affect corporate cases for years...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Task Force Reconvenes
Sep 23 2013 // Delaware’s Workers’ Compensation Task Force reconvened earlier this month for its first meeting since Gov. Jack Markell signed the group’s recommendations into law on June 27, 2013. The task force will...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Task Force Reconvenes
Sep 9 2013 // Delaware’s Workers’ Compensation Task Force reconvened last Friday for its first meeting since Gov. Jack Markell signed the group’s recommendations into law on June 27, 2013. The task force will now hold...
Top New York Court to Decide Whether Towns Can Ban Fracking
Aug 29 2013 // New York’s highest court agreed to decide whether towns and cities have the power to pass anti-fracking laws. The Court of Appeals in Albany today said it will hear arguments in lawsuits seeking to block drilling...
Risk Remains a Fact of Life for Coast Guard Crews in N.J.
Aug 27 2013 // When the call comes in, as it did on a frigid April morning, rescue crews from Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay are expected to be ready and under way within a half-hour. About 8:30 a.m., a passing vessel reported a sinking...
Delaware Town Faces Flood Insurance Suspension
Aug 24 2013 // Federal Emergency Management Agency says more than 100 Bowers Beach property owners may have to pay more for flood insurance and could lose coverage if the town doesn’t fix longstanding deficiencies in its...
