Latest Delaware Headlines
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Former Iowa Firefighter Again Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Mar 29 2016 // A former Iowa firefighter pleaded guilty to insurance fraud related to a string of cases spanning Buchanan, Clayton and Delaware counties, the Iowa Department of Insurance reported. Terry Russell Groth, a former Strawberry...
Delaware Prohibits Limiting Transgender Health Care Coverage
Mar 28 2016 // Insurance companies in Delaware will be prohibited from limiting health care coverage for transgender individuals. The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware, reports that Delaware has become the 15th state in the country to...
Delaware Warns of Unscrupulous Tax Preparers
Mar 21 2016 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart is advising consumers to beware of unscrupulous tax preparers this tax-filing season. Stewart said that the Department of Insurance has received reports of tax preparers...
With Insurance in Place, Punkin Chunkin Returns to Delaware
Mar 14 2016 // Organizers have announced that Punkin Chunkin, a popular festival in which teams compete to fling pumpkins, will return to Sussex County in Delaware after a two-year absence. News outlets report that the event will be held...
Delaware Commissioner: Beware of Unscrupulous Tax Preparers
Mar 11 2016 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart is advising consumers to beware of unscrupulous tax preparers this tax-filing season. Stewart said Thursday that the Department of Insurance has received reports of tax...
Delaware Regulators Recovered $1.9M for Policyholders in 2015
Mar 1 2016 // The Delaware Department of Insurance said the department last year recovered more than $1.9 million for policyholders, and helped business owners save nearly $9.3 million in workers’ compensation insurance costs. The...
21st Century Insurance Cutting 50 Jobs in Delaware
Feb 22 2016 // Farmers Insurance Group said it recently notified some 50 21st Century Insurance employees in Wilmington, Delaware, that their positions would be eliminated. The move comes as Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance continues...
Delaware Licensed 189 Captives in 2015
Feb 22 2016 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart said 2015 marked another record year of captive insurance formations in Delaware. Stewart said Delaware last year licensed 74 pure captive insurers, three special...
Delaware Licensed 189 Captive Entities in 2015
Feb 12 2016 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart said 2015 marked another record year of captive insurance formations in Delaware. Stewart said Delaware last year licensed 74 pure captive insurers, three special...
21st Century Insurance Cutting 50 Positions in Delaware
Feb 10 2016 // Farmers Insurance Group said it recently notified some 50 21st Century Insurance employees in Wilmington, Delaware, that their positions would be eliminated. The move comes as Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance continues...
Delaware Officials Look at Health Exchange Enrollment
Feb 5 2016 // Delaware officials are still awaiting final numbers from the federal government, but say enrollment on Delaware’s health insurance exchange appears to be increasing. Sunday was the deadline to sign up for exchange...
Delaware Commissioner Fines Highmark, Aetna $483K
Jan 12 2016 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced she has fined Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware $383,000 for violations, including failure to pay health insurance policyholder claims in a timely...
Judge Throws Out ‘Everybody Does It’ Defense in Shareholder Class Action
Jan 7 2016 // Corporate legal battles are often decided on nuanced readings of dense statutes, but one recent ruling that could expose scores of U.S. companies to shareholder lawsuits turned partly on a much simpler defense: everybody...
Insurance Journal’s Most Popular East Region Stories of 2015
Dec 31 2015 // As the year 2015 comes to a close, here’s a look at InsuranceJournal.com’s most popular East region news stories of the year. Among the 1,100 stories posted in the East region this year, the following were 50...
Delaware Extends Driving Privileges to Undocumented Immigrants
Dec 31 2015 // Dozens of people in Delaware have begun the process of obtaining a new state-issued card that will give driving privileges to those in the country illegally. The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware, reports that...
Delaware Decriminalizes ‘Personal Use’ Marijuana Possession
Dec 21 2015 // Delaware has officially decriminalized possession by adults of small amounts of marijuana. A decriminalization law signed in June by Delaware Gov. Jack Markell took effect Dec. 18. The law makes possession by an adult of a...
A Look at the Highest Paid U.S. Corporate Director Posts
Dec 21 2015 // Outsize pay for chief executive officers has been a bone of contention among shareholder activists for years. What’s less known is that the directors on board-compensation committees — the very people who...
Delaware Issues Bulletin on PIP Subrogation Claims
Dec 21 2015 // The Delaware Department of Insurance is reminding auto insurers that broad release language in settlement agreements which technically preclude a personal injury protection (PIP) carrier from pursuing its subrogation claim...
Delaware City Pays $15K Deductible in Settling Police Kick Lawsuit
Dec 15 2015 // Officials say a Delaware city has paid its $15,000 insurance deductible in settling a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union after a white police officer kicked a black suspect in the head and broke his...
Delaware Warns Insurers About Circumventing PIP Subrogation Claims
Dec 15 2015 // The Delaware Department of Insurance is reminding auto insurers that broad release language in settlement agreements which technically preclude a personal injury protection (PIP) carrier from pursuing its subrogation claim...
