Latest Delaware Headlines
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Five Delaware Residents Sue Firms Over Water Contamination
Jun 7 2019 // Five Delaware residents whose water supply was contaminated by chemicals linked to health issues ranging from cancer to infertility are suing companies that manufactured the chemicals. The News Journal of Wilmington...
The Hilb Group Acquires Delaware’s Pfister Insurance
Jun 7 2019 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Delaware-based Pfister Insurance Inc. The transaction became effective June 1, 2019. Located in Dover, Pfister is a full-service property and casualty agency primarily providing...
Marijuana Legalization Front and Center in 3 States
Jun 7 2019 // Recreational marijuana use is grabbing attention in three states that appear poised at some point to clear the way for adults to buy and possess cannabis for reasons other than medicinal purposes. Illinois is set to become...
J&J Strikes Out in Bid to Transfer State Talcum Suits to Federal Court
May 10 2019 // Johnson & Johnson failed to get 2,400 state-court cancer lawsuits tied to its baby powder immediately transferred to a federal court in Delaware, where it could forge a single defense strategy. U.S. District Judge...
Delaware Supreme Court Rejects Untimely Appeal in Air Crash Lawsuit
Apr 30 2019 // Delaware’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal in a lawsuit stemming from a 2012 airplane crash in the Congo that claimed the life of the chief adviser to that country’s president and left his finance minister...
J&J Asks Federal Court to Assume Baby Powder Lawsuits from State Courts
Apr 23 2019 // Johnson & Johnson wants a federal judge to take over more than 2,000 baby-powder lawsuits it faces instead of allowing the cases to be heard by state-court juries, where the company has a mixed record. The...
Uber Wins Dismissal of Investor Suit Over Acquisition of Truck Firm Otto
Apr 2 2019 // Travis Kalanick, the co-founder of ride-hailing company Uber, and the company’s directors won the dismissal of an investor lawsuit that sought to hold them liable for a fight over trade secrets that slowed...
Accidental Delaware House Fire Causes $250K in Damage
Mar 19 2019 // Delaware authorities say a house fire in a neighborhood near the coast was an accident. The Delaware Office of the State Fire Marshal issued a news release saying that it had ruled the fire in Sussex County, Delaware, was...
CBS Settles $1.25M Investor Lawsuit over ‘Improper’ Redstone Compensation
Mar 18 2019 // CBS Corp. directors agreed to settle for $1.25 million investors’ claims that network owner Sumner Redstone received millions of dollars in improper compensation after he became incapacitated in 2014. The money...
Delaware Lawmaker Loses Bid to Revive Lawsuit Over City Property
Mar 15 2019 // A Delaware lawmaker who owns a house damaged by a fire that started in an adjacent city-owned dwelling has lost her bid to revive a federal lawsuit. Rep. Stephanie Bolden, a Wilmington Democrat, claimed that the city...
Anthem, Cigna in Court Battles Over Failed Merger
Feb 25 2019 // There’s no dispute that a $48.9 billion merger announced in 2015 between health insurers Anthem Inc. and Cigna Corp. imploded two years later over antitrust concerns. Now, the question is whether one owes the other...
Troubled Delaware Poultry Plant Reports Wastewater Spill
Feb 15 2019 // State environmental officials say a southern Delaware poultry processing facility with a history of wastewater violations has reported an accidental discharge of up to 1 million gallons of partially treated...
Delaware Contractor Breaks Both Legs in Trench Fall
Jan 29 2019 // The Delaware Department of Transportation says a contractor who fell through a trench on a construction site broke both his legs. The News Journal reports that the Carrow Construction crew was digging a trench Friday as...
Delaware Officials Say Data Breach Affects Five Companies, 650 Consumers
Jan 28 2019 // Officials in Delaware say a data breach at a third-party administrator for health insurance companies has affected five companies and 650 consumers. The Department of Insurance announced Thursday that BenefitMall’s...
Delaware Licensed 46 Newly Formed Captive Insurers in 2018
Jan 24 2019 // In 2018, Delaware licensed 46 newly formed captive insurers despite a challenging environment, according to Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro in a press release issued by the Delaware Insurance...
Maryland Family Sues for Up to $20M Over Man’s Death at Delaware Junk Yard
Jan 23 2019 // The family of a Maryland man crushed by a van in a Delaware junk yard is suing the business for up to $20 million for gross negligence, wrongful death and other claims. The News Journal of Wilmington reports the family of...
Firms in Patent Feud Over U.S. Mandated Railroad Safety Technology
Jan 18 2019 // Two companies battling for a share of more than $14 billion in mandated safety upgrades on U.S. railroads are set to collide in federal court to resolve a dispute over technology that prevents train...
Man Dies During Demolition Work at Old Delaware GM Plant
Jan 14 2019 // Delaware authorities say a demolition company leader died while supervising work at an old automobile plant. Delaware State Police said the death occurred Friday afternoon at the former General Motors plant in Wilmington,...
Delaware Judge Says Fired Medical Marijuana User Can Pursue Lawsuit
Dec 28 2018 // A Delaware judge has ruled that a medical marijuana user fired from his factory job after failing a drug test can pursue a lawsuit against his former employer. Jeremiah Chance was fired in 2016 from his job as a yard...
New York Contractor Convicted of Hiring Hit Men for Killing
Dec 14 2018 // A Schenectady, N.Y., contractor has been convicted of first-degree murder in a scheme to kill a man for life insurance money. A jury convicted 54-year-old Tarchand Lall on Wednesday for hiring hit men from Delaware to kill...
