Latest Delaware Headlines
All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Wal-Mart Settles With Family of Comedian Who Died in N.J. Turnpike Crash
Jan 23 2015 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reached a confidential legal settlement with the family of comedian James McNair, who died in a June 7 accident on the New Jersey Turnpike that also seriously injured actor-comedian Tracy Morgan. The...
Delaware Traffic Fatalities Rose 20% in 2014
Jan 12 2015 // Highway officials say the number of traffic fatalities in Delaware in 2014 was 20 percent higher than 2013. The Office of Highway Safety said in a news release on Friday, Jan. 9, that 125 people were killed in traffic...
Delaware Regulator Schedules Workers’ Comp Rate Hearing
Jan 2 2015 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced that the state’s Department of Insurance has scheduled a public hearing for Jan. 12 and 13 to receive public comment on the proposed decrease in both the...
SERFF Filing Access Now Available Online in Delaware
Dec 11 2014 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced that the Department of Insurance now offers public the ability to view the state’s insurance rate and form filings electronically via the System for...
New York Court Shows Leniency in Dismissal of Going-Private Buyout Claim
Nov 30 2014 // A four-page opinion from an appellate court in New York suggests a way to insulate companies and their boards from lawsuits in going-private transactions. The decision stems from the 2012 buyout of Kenneth Cole Productions...
Lawyer: Morgan Sustained ‘Traumatic Brain Injury’ in N.J. Turnpike Crash
Nov 18 2014 // Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan was in a coma for days with a traumatic brain injury after a highway crash in which his van was struck from behind by a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. truck five months ago, according to his...
Delaware Commissioner Urges Treasury to Reconsider MetLife’s SIFI Designation
Oct 22 2014 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart has recently sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and other federal regulators urging them to reconsider their vote to propose that MetLife be labeled as a...
DCRB Seeks Decrease in Del. WC Voluntary Loss Costs, Residual Market Rates
Oct 17 2014 // The Delaware Department of Insurance said it has received the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau’s (DCRB) filing proposing a decrease in both the workers’ compensation voluntary market loss costs and the...
Police Nab 316 Distracted Drivers on Phones in Dover, Delaware
Oct 16 2014 // Police in Dover, Delaware, have doled out more than 300 tickets to distracted drivers for texting and talking on their cell phones. The 316 tickets were part of a 12-day blitz that ended Sunday, Oct. 12, and eclipse the...
RBC Facing $76 Million in Shareholder Claim Over Merger
Oct 14 2014 // A Delaware judge said Royal Bank of Canada must pay $75.8 million in damages to former shareholders of Rural/Metro because it failed to disclose conflicts of interest that tainted the $438 million buyout of the ambulance...
Speed-Trap Tipoff Tickets in Delaware Lead to ACLU Lawsuit
Oct 8 2014 // A town police department in Smyrna, Delaware, is facing a lawsuit over its ticket-writing policies after the Delaware American Civil Liberties Union said police wrongly ticketed a driver who flashed his headlights to warn...
Dover, Delaware to Target Drivers Using Handheld Cellphones
Oct 3 2014 // For the first time, Dover, Delaware, police are using a team of officers to target drivers who text and talk on the road. The department says that despite many campaigns to spread awareness that it’s illegal to use...
Wal-Mart Says Tracy Morgan Is to Blame for Injuries in Highway Crash
Sep 29 2014 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said actor-comedian Tracy Morgan is to blame for injuries he sustained in June highway crash because he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. Morgan, who was critically injured when the limousine bus he was...
Nightclub Insurer Owner in Maryland Charged in $100M Policyholder Fraud
Sep 18 2014 // The owner of a Maryland-based insurer faces fraud charges for inflating the ratings of his company to win business, according to an indictment which seeks to recover more than $100 million in premiums his clients...
Delaware Insurance Department Appoints Grant as Communications Director
Sep 11 2014 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced that she has named Jerry Grant as communications director for the Department of Insurance. Grant spent nine years with the Democratic Caucus in the Delaware...
Delaware WC Panel Begins Work
Sep 8 2014 // A Delaware panel established to oversee efforts to keep the state’s workers’ comp rates affordable is getting down to work. Delaware’s Workers Compensation Oversight Panel is charged with creating a new...
IA&B Announces Officers for New Administrative Year
Sep 2 2014 // Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group (IA&B) in Mechanicsburg, Penn., and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania announced officers for the new administrative year...
NORCAL Mutual Begins Offering Med Mal Coverage in Del., Penn.
Aug 29 2014 // NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company, a medical professional liability insurance carrier domiciled in San Francisco, said it is now offering its medical professional liability coverage to healthcare professionals in Delaware...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Oversight Panel Begins Work
Aug 26 2014 // A Delaware panel established to oversee efforts to keep the state’s workers compensation rates affordable is getting down to work. Delaware’s Workers Compensation Oversight Panel is charged with creating a new...
Nightclub Insurer Founder to Remain in Custody in Maryland
Aug 8 2014 // A federal judge says a Maryland businessman will remain in custody pending trial on charges of lying to Delaware insurance regulators. Jeffrey Cohen is the founder and former CEO of Indemnity Insurance Corp., which...
