Latest Delaware Headlines
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Delaware Senate Bill Would Fund Volunteer Ambulance Services
May 16 2014 // The state Senate is set to vote on one of a series of bills aimed at providing more money to politically powerful volunteer fire companies who say their ambulance services are losing money. The bill to be voted on Thursday...
Delaware Reports Continuing Growth in Captive Program
May 12 2014 // Delaware’s Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced Monday the state grew its number of captive insurers in 2013. The regulator said year-end 2013 numbers are 298 licensed captives (with 266 being...
Delaware Task Force Eyes Lower Workers’ Compensation Costs
May 12 2014 // Delaware’s state panel established to address recent rate increases for workers’ compensation insurance in the state is recommending that medical costs be trimmed by 33 percent over the next three years. The...
Delaware Court Backs Fee-Shifting in Shareholder Class Actions
May 12 2014 // Delaware’s Supreme Court has ruled that corporations can adopt bylaws requiring an investor who sues and loses to pay the company’s legal costs, potentially upending the economics of a booming type of...
NCCI Reports on Workers’ Comp Legislative Outlook
May 5 2014 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. (NCCI) published on April 8 its annual workers’ compensation issues report. Included in the report is a legislative and regulatory outlook across the country. The...
Delaware Bill Adds Teeth to Certificate of Insurance Rules
Apr 7 2014 // Delaware legislature on March 25 passed HB 104 (“An Act to Amend Title 18 of the Delaware Code Relating to Certificates of Insurance”) that aims to curtail the improper use of certificates of...
In Delaware, Over 3,600 Policyholders Face Flood Rate Hikes
Apr 1 2014 // Premiums for thousands of Delaware property owners may increase significantly because of changes to the National Flood Insurance Program, but it seems many residents may not know about impending rate hikes of up to 25...
Delaware’s New Legislation Adds Teeth to Certificate of Insurance Regulations
Mar 27 2014 // Delaware legislature on Tuesday passed HB 104 (“An Act to Amend Title 18 of the Delaware Code Relating to Certificates of Insurance”) that aims to curtail the improper use of certificates of insurance. Delaware...
Del. Gov. Nominates Corporate Attorney Bouchard to Lead Chancery Court
Mar 21 2014 // Delaware lawyer Andre Bouchard was nominated on Thursday to replace Leo Strine as the chief judge of the state’s Court of Chancery, one of the premier venues for business disputes, according to a statement by...
Delaware Officials: About 7,000 Enrollments in Health Insurance Exchange
Mar 7 2014 // Delaware state officials say about 7,000 Delawareans have chosen private insurance plans under the federal Affordable Care Act. Delaware’s Health and Social Services Secretary Rita Landgraf told the state Health Care...
Delaware Approves 14% Hike in Workers’ Comp Voluntary Market Loss Costs
Feb 21 2014 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced today that she has approved the re-submission of the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau (DCRB) workers’ compensation rate filing regarding the residual...
Home Insurer Universal P&C to Enter Indiana, Minnesota, Delaware
Feb 6 2014 // Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. (UPCIC), headquartered in Florida, has applied to expand into Indiana, Minnesota and Delaware. UPCIC is one of the leading writers of homeowners insurance in Florida and a...
Florida Home Insurer Universal P&C to Enter Indiana, Minnesota, Delaware
Feb 4 2014 // Florida-based Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. (UPCIC) has applied to expand into Indiana, Minnesota and Delaware. UPCIC is one of the leading writers of homeowners insurance in Florida and a fully licensed...
Oracle Loses Bid to Have D&O Insurer Beazley Pay $20M in Claims Over Acquisition
Jan 16 2014 // Oracle Corp. can’t rely on an insurer to pay $20 million to help settle shareholder claims over the software maker’s acquisition of a company controlled by Oracle founder Larry Ellison, a judge...
Delaware Judge Weighs D&O Insurer’s Obligation in Oracle Settlement
Jan 10 2014 // Attorneys for Oracle Corp. are asking a Delaware judge to order an insurer to pay $20 million to cover attorney fees related to the proposed settlement of a shareholder lawsuit. The lawsuit challenged Oracle’s 2011...
Delaware Chancery Court’s Strine Nominated to Lead State’s Supreme Court
Jan 9 2014 // Leo Strine, the outspoken chief judge of Delaware’s nationally important business court, has been nominated to lead the state’s Supreme Court, Delaware Governor Jack Markell said on Wednesday. The move, if...
Delaware Refinery Owners Win Insurance Lawsuit
Nov 22 2013 // A Delaware judge has ruled for owners of the Delaware City oil refinery in lawsuit over insurance coverage involving the deaths of two workers who suffocated inside a tank. The judge granted summary judgment this week to...
IA&B Service Group Announces New Officers in Del., Md., Penn.
Nov 11 2013 // The fall marks a new administrative year for Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The following directors have been...
Collisions Between Cars, Deer Increasing in Delaware
Nov 4 2013 // The number of collisions between deer and vehicles in Delaware is growing as state officials work to reduce the deer population. Citing statistics released recently by State Farm Insurance, The News Journal of Wilmington...
Nightclub Insurer Founder Fights Delaware Regulator Over Seizure
Oct 30 2013 // Indemnity Insurance Corp., which insures nightclubs, is at the center of a legal tug of war between its founder and the Delaware insurance commissioner. The dispute between company founder Jeffrey B. Cohen and Commissioner...
