Latest Delaware Headlines
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Feb 11 2007 // Royal & Sun management buyout approval expected A state hearing officer recommended that Delaware’s insurance commissioner approve the proposed management buyout and eventual dissolution of Royal & Sun...
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Del. Regulator Backs Health Pool; Cites New Risk Retention Group
Feb 7 2007 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn urged General Assembly budget writers to fund the creation of a health insurance pool that could cover 10,000 Delawareans. He also reported that a group of Kent County doctors has...
Royal & Sun Management Buyout Clears Hurdle; Final OK Expected
Feb 5 2007 // A state hearing officer recommended Friday that Delaware’s insurance commissioner approve the proposed management buyout and eventual dissolution of Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group’s U.S....
Del. Focuses on Workplace Safety for Hispanic Construction Contractors
Feb 5 2007 // As Delaware’s rural landscape gives way to housing developments, immigrant workers who once took jobs in the agriculture and poultry industries are turning to home construction and landscaping. While reaping the...
Delaware agent groups to merge
Jan 28 2007 // The Independent Agents Association of Delaware (IIAD) and the Insurance Agents & Brokers of Delaware (IA&B of DE) have agreed to merge their memberships. “Our members have clearly told us that they want a...
Delaware enacts major workers comp system reform package
Jan 28 2007 // News Currents The Delaware Senate and House moved swiftly earlier this month to pass a bill containing major reforms of the state’s workers’ compensation system. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner immediately signed the...
Royal & Sun Alliance management buyout faces opposition
Jan 28 2007 // New York Sens. Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer, along with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have expressed concerns that the deal may leave Royal Indemnity unable to meet its obligations. A proposed management...
Highlights of Delaware’s workers’ comp changes
Jan 28 2007 // In some of its specific provisions Delaware’s workers’ compensation reform law (SB1): • directs that a new workers’ compensation rating plan be filed with the Insurance Commissioner within 90 days...
Royal & Sun Alliance Management Buyout Faces Opposition
Jan 22 2007 // A proposed management buyout and eventual dissolution of Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group’s U.S. operations could leave policyholders in jeopardy, according to critics trying to halt the deal that is before...
Delaware Moves Swiftly to Enact Major Workers’ Comp Reform
Jan 18 2007 // The Delaware Senate and House moved swiftly in the past week to pass a bill containing major reforms of the state’s workers’ compensation system and Gov. Ruth Ann Miller immediately signed the reforms into...
Delaware Agents Groups to Merge
Jan 11 2007 // The Independent Agents Association of Delaware (IIAD) and the Insurance Agents & Brokers of Delaware (IA&B of DE) have agreed to merge their memberships. “Our members have clearly told us that they want a...
Del. Governor Hopes Workers’ Comp Reform Will Influence Chrysler
Jan 11 2007 // Pomp and circumstance ruled the day as Delaware lawmakers began a new session of the General Assembly on Tuesday, with only a smattering of legislative business. Families and friends packed into the House and Senate...
13 States File Briefs Against Credit Scoring in U.S. Supreme Court Case
Dec 27 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has taken arguments against insurance industry use of credit scoring to the U.S. Supreme Court, filing a brief in a pending case involving the practice. Denn recruited 12 other...
2006: a big year for P&C buyers and sellers of all shapes and sizes
Dec 25 2006 // JANUARY Hallmark Aquires Aerospace Holdings Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC, which markets general aviation insurance products. Hallmark...
ALLSTATE: NO NEW RISKS IN CONN., N.J. AND DEL.
Dec 25 2006 // Allstate Insurance Co., continuing its reappraisal of its hurricane loss exposure along the East Coast, has decided to stop writing new property insurance policies in all areas of Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware. The...
2006: Mother Nature and political deals made 2006 an unsettling year
Dec 25 2006 // From Maine to Virginia, agents and adjusters helped property owners dig out from damaging floods. High waters seemed to hit a new state every week. Meanwhile, these same agents had to worry about whether their income was...
Top 10 Stories of the Year – East
Dec 24 2006 // From Maine to Virginia, agents and adjusters helped property owners dig out from damaging floods. High waters seemed to hit a new state every week. Meanwhile, these same agents had to worry about whether their income was...
Allstate: no new risksin Conn., N.J. and Del.
Dec 24 2006 // Allstate Insurance Co., continuing its reappraisal of its hurricane loss exposure along the East Coast, has decided to stop writing new property insurance policies in all areas of Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware. The...
2006:a big year for P&C buyers and sellers of all shapes and sizes
Dec 24 2006 // JANUARY Hallmark Acquires Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC, which markets general aviation insurance products. Hallmark underwrites...
