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Delaware Fines Liberty Mutual $300K for Advertising Discounts Not Offered in State
Apr 15 2025 // After what it says was an investigation that took months, the Delaware Department of Insurance has levied a $300,000 penalty on three Liberty Mutual companies for advertising discounts that they do not offer in the...
A Look at Some Numbers Behind Delaware’s Law for Corporations
Mar 28 2025 // Delaware is poised to give corporate officers more protections in its courts against shareholder lawsuits after criticism by billionaire Elon Musk and other influential business titans that rattled top public officials in...
Delaware Lawmakers Approve Bill Overhauling Corporate Law
Mar 26 2025 // Delaware lawmakers approved on Tuesday an overhaul of the state’s corporate law in a bid to keep powerful business leaders like Mark Zuckerberg from moving their companies’ legal home to another state, although...
Delaware Corporate Law Reform Heads to Final Vote Amid Criticism It Favors Billionaires
Mar 20 2025 // Delaware lawmakers are expected to vote as soon as next week to overhaul the state’s corporate law to protect its business-friendly reputation, but opponents have called the bill a giveaway to billionaires. The bill...
Delaware Forest Service Warns of Elevated Wildfire Risk
Mar 14 2025 // Delaware officials are reporting that the ongoing drought and current weather conditions have caused an uptick in wildfires in all three counties. Due to an elevated wildfire risk, the Delaware Forest Service is urging all...
Delaware Aims to Remain Top US Corporate Home; Texas Marshals a Challenge
Mar 13 2025 // A year after Elon Musk urged U.S. companies to abandon Delaware as their legal home and follow Tesla to Texas, legislators in the two states on Wednesday considered bills in an unusual battle over corporate law that...
Aon’s NFP Acquires Lyons Insurance in Delaware
Mar 5 2025 // Property/casualty middle-market insurance broker NFP, an Aon company, recently announced its acquisition of Lyons Insurance Agency, Inc., a multiline insurance broker located in Wilmington, Delaware. David Lyons and Tim...
Delaware Program Cuts Crop Insurance Premiums for Farmers 30%
Mar 4 2025 // Delaware has begun a program that promises to reduce premiums for 2025 crop insurance plans for producers who had an eligible plan in 2024. The reduction is equal to 30% of the 2024 total premium with a maximum of $10 per...
Delaware Bill Would Limit Investor Lawsuits as Companies Consider Exiting State
Feb 18 2025 // Delaware lawmakers on Monday proposed changes to the U.S. state’s widely used corporate law that would limit shareholder lawsuits after several high-profile companies said they might move their legal home to another...
Delaware Supreme Court May Have Made It Easier for Some Firms to Leave State
Feb 5 2025 // The Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a decision involving TripAdvisor that could make it easier for some companies to move out of the state, which is the corporate home for about two-thirds of the Fortune 500. In a...
Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act Now in Effect
Jan 7 2025 // The Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act, passed in 2023, went into effect at the beginning of this new year, granting Delawareans new personal data privacy rights. “Businesses collect Delawareans’ personal data...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Rates to Drop 8.4% and 9.2%
Nov 18 2024 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro announced that workers’ compensation insurance rates will decrease for the eighth year in a row, effective December 1. The voluntary market is expected to decrease...
Navarro Wins Delaware Insurance Commissioner Reelection
Nov 6 2024 // Trinidad Navarro will retain his role as Delaware insurance commissioner. Navarro, the state’s Democratic incumbent, defeated Republican nominee Ralph Taylor in Tuesday’s election. More than 95% of the vote was...
Delaware Voters to Elect Insurance Commissioner
Nov 1 2024 // On November 5, Delaware voters will decide who will be the state’s insurance commissioner. Incumbent Trinidad Navarro is running for re-election. He won more than 70% of the vote in the Democratic primary in...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Rates to Drop 8.4% and 9.2%
Oct 15 2024 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro announced that workers’ compensation insurance rates will decrease for the eighth year in a row, effective December 1. The voluntary market is expected to decrease...
Delaware High Court Rescues Insurance Agency’s Malpractice Suit Against Law Firm
Oct 10 2024 // Six months after a three-judge panel of the Delaware Supreme Court said an insurance agency deserved another shot at proving its claims of professional negligence against a law firm, the full state high court has...
Delaware’s Workers’ Compensation Claims Cost Grew 3% a Year: WCRI
Oct 1 2024 // The average cost of workers’ compensation claims in Delaware, for cases with more than seven days of lost work, went up by 3% per year between 2019 and 2022, according to a new study from the Workers Compensation...
Delaware Insurance Commissioner Navarro Wins Primary Election
Sep 13 2024 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro won this week’s Democratic primary for the post, gaining more than 70% of the vote versus his rival, Kayode Abegunde. Navarro was first elected commissioner in 2016....
Delaware Top Court Will Hear Drugmakers’ Appeal to End Zantac Lawsuits
Aug 28 2024 // Delaware’s highest court said on Tuesday it will hear an appeal by GSK and other drugmakers seeking to end more than 70,000 lawsuits claiming discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer. GSK, Pfizer, Sanofi and...
Delaware High Court Upholds Blockbuster $267 Million Legal Fee in Dell Lawsuit
Aug 15 2024 // Five law firms should receive $267 million in legal fees for obtaining a $1 billion settlement for shareholders of Dell Technologies DELL.N, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, rejecting arguments that the...
