Latest Delaware Headlines
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Parents Sue Delaware Child Care Facility Where Daughter Was Killed
May 13 2020 // The parents of an infant who was killed at a Delaware child care facility have filed suit against the facility as well as a former employee who was charged in the baby’s death. The News Journal of Wilmington reported...
Delaware Auto Insurers Issue Rebates, Reduce Rates During Coronavirus Pandemic
May 4 2020 // The Delaware Department of Insurance has announced that many consumer-friendly automobile insurer actions are being implemented due to reduced vehicle use throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. As filed with the department,...
Federal, State Prosecutors Form Delaware COVID-19 Anti-Fraud Coalition
Apr 29 2020 // United States Attorney David C. Weiss and Delaware Attorney General Kathleen Jennings have announced the formation of a new Coronavirus (COVID-19) Anti-Fraud Coalition, aimed at better protecting the citizens of Delaware...
Delaware Auto Insurers Take Actions to Help Consumers During COVID-19 Pandemic
Apr 7 2020 // Automobile insurers in Delaware are taking a number of actions in light of COVID-19, the Delaware Department of Insurance (DOI) announced. On Monday, Allstate announced it would embark on a premium payback program...
Delaware Judge Dismisses Chemours Lawsuit Against DuPont
Apr 1 2020 // A Delaware judge has granted the DuPont Co.’s request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that it massively downplayed the cost of environmental liabilities imposed on spinoff company Chemours. Vice Chancellor Sam...
How East Insurance Regulators Are Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic
Mar 25 2020 // As insurers continue to monitor the spread and impact of COVID-19, insurance regulators across the East region of the U.S. are issuing guidance on how the industry can respond. “There is almost no aspect of the...
Delaware Judge Holds Hearing in Lawsuit Over Hidden Bathroom Camera
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...
Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Involving Firefighter Deaths in Delaware
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...
Commissioner Navarro Responds to Report of Premium Increases for Military Members
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...
Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court in Delaware Against Shipping Firm for Damaged Jetty
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...
Delaware Companies Save More Than $4M from Reduced Workers’ Comp Rates
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...
Delaware Court Says Insurance Doesn’t Cover Attacker in School Fight
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...
Delaware Insurance Commissioner Appointed Chair of NAIC Antifraud Task Force
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...
DuPont Asks Delaware Judge to Toss Chemours Environmental Liabilities Suit
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...
Delaware Attorney General Loses Appeal Bid in Opioid Lawsuit
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...
U.S. Supreme Court to Decide on Delaware Appointing Judges Based on Political Party
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...
Delaware Loses Bid for High Court Review of Opioid Suit Ruling
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...
Shareholder Suit Claims Boeing Board Liable in 737 MAX Problems
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...
Ex-DuPont CEO Backtracks, Says Chemours Liabilities ‘Uncapped’
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...
Relation Insurance Services Acquires Delaware’s S.T. Good Insurance
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...
