Latest Delaware Headlines
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Federal Court in Delaware Requiring Disclosure of Litigation Funding Agreements
Apr 22 2022 // Insurers are applauding a decision by the chief judge for the U.S. District Court in Delaware to require parties to disclose whether a litigation funder has an interest in any cases brought before him. The standing order...
Delaware Man With 9 DUI Arrests Charged With Number 10
Apr 5 2022 // A Delaware man has been arrested and charged drunken driving for the 10th time, state police said. Authorities said 54-year old Charles Smith of Millsboro was arrested for a 10th-offense DUI following a crash Thursday...
Court Eyes Appeal Over Mentally Ill Inmate Put in Solitary in Delaware
Mar 30 2022 // A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit filed by a Delaware prison inmate who claimed he was deprived of his constitutional rights by being placed into solitary confinement because of his mental...
Related Claim Exclusion Doesn’t Require ‘Fundamentally Identical’ Actions in Delaware
Mar 22 2022 // The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that solar panel manufacturer First Solar, which faced two securities class actions, is not entitled to have its insurance policies cover both because the later-issued of its policies...
Delaware Senate Passes Bill Requiring Paid Leave
Mar 11 2022 // The Democrat-led state Senate voted along party lines Tuesday to approve legislation forcing private-sector businesses in Delaware to provide 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave. The bill requires businesses...
Delaware Regulator Urges Ban on Gender-Based Auto Insurance Rating
Mar 3 2022 // The Delaware Insurance Department has issued a report critical of the use of gender in auto insurance rating and concluding that the state should end the practice as six other states have done. The report found that...
Delaware Poultry Farm With 1.2 Million Birds Hit by Lethal Flu
Feb 23 2022 // A commercial poultry farm in Delaware with 1.2 million birds has been hit by a highly lethal form of bird flu, the state said on Wednesday, significantly expanding an outbreak that has killed U.S. chickens and turkeys. The...
Delaware Residents Near Guard Base Report High Levels of ‘Forever Chemicals’
Feb 23 2022 // Residents living near an Air National Guard base in northern Delaware have average blood levels of certain toxic manmade chemicals that are significantly higher than the national average, according to a report by federal...
Town Not Liable in Drowning of Handcuffed Teen, Says Delaware Court
Feb 3 2022 // A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s ruling that police in a small southern Delaware town had no constitutional duty to rescue a teenager who drowned after he was handcuffed and tried to escape. The court on...
Family’s Wrongful Death Suit Alleges Disability, Rights Violations by Delaware City, Police
Feb 2 2022 // The family of a Delaware man who was fatally shot by local police two years ago while he was armed with a knife has sued the city and officers that fired at him, seeking monetary damages. The wrongful death lawsuit, filed...
Delaware Lawmakers Advance Bill Legalizing Recreational Marijuana
Jan 28 2022 // A Democrat-led House committee voted mostly along party lines Wednesday to release a bill legalizing recreational marijuana use by adults in Delaware. A lone Republican joined Democrats on the Health and Human Development...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rates to Decrease for Fifth Year
Nov 30 2021 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro announced that workers’ compensation insurance rates in the state will decrease for the fifth year in a row, effective December 1, 2021. The voluntary market is seeing...
Fire Causes Estimated $50K in Damage at Delaware Restaurant
Nov 29 2021 // Fire officials in Delaware are investigating a fire that damaged a restaurant in Newark. The Delaware State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating after the fire at Miller’s Ale House at Center Pointe Plaza,...
$2M in Damage from Oceanfront Home Fire in Delaware
Nov 10 2021 // A fire heavily damaged an oceanfront home in Bethany Beach, Delaware, over the weekend, according to fire investigators. Flames were engulfing the home on Seaside Drive as firefighters arrived around 11:30 p.m. Saturday,...
Multiple Delaware Residents Indicted for Auto Insurance Fraud
Oct 22 2021 // Late last month in New Castle County, Delaware, a grand jury indicted multiple residents for insurance fraud. The indictments stem from Department of Insurance Fraud Prevention Bureau investigations, in partnership with...
Delaware Sues Monsanto Alleging Damage to Natural Resources
Sep 28 2021 // Delaware’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against chemical company Monsanto and spinoffs Solutia and Pharmacia, alleging long-lasting damage to the state’s natural resources. The lawsuit filed Delaware...
Smaller Delaware Businesses Find Ways to Survive Pandemic
Sep 28 2021 // Small businesses have faced big-time problems throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. And for many, it was no longer just about trying to get by. It was a matter of survival. Local small-business owners Rous and Angie Robles of...
Former Delaware Pastor Found Liable for Child Sexual Abuse
Sep 20 2021 // A woman who said her father, a former pastor of a Delaware church, sexually abused her as a child and trafficked her to other men, was awarded $1.5 million by a federal jury on Friday. Alicia Cohen, 41, said in her civil...
Delaware Trooper Suspended Amid Investigation of Thefts
Sep 9 2021 // A Delaware state trooper has been suspended with pay amid a federal investigation into a series of thefts from a package reshipping company in New Castle. According to an FBI affidavit unsealed late last week, Jamal J....
Delaware Insurance Commissioner Issues Alert About Recalled Respiratory Machines
Aug 6 2021 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro has released a consumer alert for users of respiratory devices manufactured by Philips. An estimated four million Philips Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) and...
