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#1 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...
#2 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...
#3 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...
#4 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...
#5 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...
#6 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...
#7 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...
#8 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...
#9 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...
#10 Delaware High Court Hands Agency a New Shot at Malpractice Claim Against Law Firm
Apr 23 2024 // A Delaware insurance agency has won another chance at proving a law firm was negligent in defending it in a non-compete dispute with another agency, a dispute it ended up settling for $1.2 million. The Delaware Supreme...
#11 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...
#12 Family of Black Teen Wrongly Executed in 1931 Seeks Damages
May 24 2024 // The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania — a Black 16-year-old sent to the electric chair in 1931 and exonerated by the governor in 2022 — is suing the county that prosecuted...
#13 Frederick Mutual Exiting Personal Lines; Signs Renewal Deal With Farmers of Salem
Nov 8 2023 // Frederick Mutual, which is exiting the personal lines market and focusing strictly on commercial lines in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions, has reached a renewal rights agreement with another insurer for the bulk of...
#14 Fate of Most Remaining Zantac Lawsuits Weighed by Delaware Judge
Jan 26 2024 // GSK, Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies are urging a judge in Delaware this week to find that evidence plaintiffs’ lawyers want to use in about 72,000 lawsuits claiming that the discontinued heartburn drug...
#15 Supreme Court Won’t Hear Delaware’s Captive Insurance Documents Battle With IRS
Nov 21 2023 // The state of Delaware has lost its fight with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over the release of information on captive insurers, a fight the state took all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court on Monday...
#16 All the Major Legal Battles Elon Musk and His Companies Are Facing
Jun 10 2024 // Elon Musk and his companies are embroiled in dozens of lawsuits, ranging from fatal crashes blamed on Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot system to civil rights complaints over the treatment of employees. Tesla’s board and...
#17 Ohio Settles Lawsuit With Chemical Companies For $110 Million Over PFAS Contamination
Dec 1 2023 // DOVER, Del. (AP) – The DuPont Co. and two spin-off firms will pay $110 million to the state of Ohio to settle a lawsuit over environmental threats from toxic chemicals used at a former DuPont facility in neighboring West...
#18 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...
#19 Judge Rejects Former Delaware Trooper’s Discrimination Claims Against State Police
May 21 2024 // A federal judge ruled last Friday in favor of the Delaware State Police in a lawsuit filed by a former trooper who said she was subjected to years of discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation as she rose through...
#20 Woman Gets 5-10 Years for Workers’ Comp Scam of Family Dollar, Restaurant
Mar 1 2024 // A Delaware woman will serve 5 to 10 years in state prison for a workers’ compensation scam that spanned 2.5 years, two states, and cost a Pennsylvania employer more than $170,000, according to Pennsylvania Attorney...
