Latest Delaware Headlines
All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurance Agents & Brokers Announces New Directors, Officers
Sep 4 2019 // September marks a new administrative year for the Insurance Agents & Brokers (IA&B) Service Group and its partnership of agents’ associations in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. The following independent...
Delaware Judge Says Jury Should Decide Fatal Fire Case
Aug 30 2019 // A federal lawsuit over an arson fire that killed three firefighters can proceed against the city of Wilmington and its former mayor and fire chief. The Delaware News Journal reports Judge Mary Pat Thynge dismissed some...
OSHA Fines Contractors in Death of Delaware Port Worker
Aug 15 2019 // Federal safety regulators have cited two contractors following the death of a worker at Delaware’s port of Wilmington earlier this year. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says Enerfab Process...
Delaware Officials to Update Public on Aftermath of Gas Leak
Aug 14 2019 // Delaware environmental officials are updating residents about actions taken by a chemical plant owner since a gas leak last year temporarily closed the Delaware Memorial Bridge on one of the busiest travel days of the...
Delaware Woman Indicted for $16K of Fraudulent Insurance Claims
Aug 12 2019 // A Wilmington, Del., woman was indicted by the New Castle County Grand Jury for insurance fraud and other felony charges. Theresa T. Milton was indicted on seven felony counts of insurance fraud, one felony count of theft...
Delaware Insurance Data Security Act Signed into Law
Aug 6 2019 // Delaware Governor John Carney signed House Bill 174, titled the Delaware Insurance Data Security Act, into law on Wednesday, July 31, 2019. This law is based on an NAIC Model Act, which establishes a comprehensive...
Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Expands Commercial Auto into Delaware, Kentucky, D.C.
Jul 19 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies have expanded its commercial automobile product into Delaware, Kentucky, and the District of Columbia. The company’s policy is designed for local and intermediate travel...
Chemical Contamination Found in Wells Near Delaware Air Force Base
Jul 17 2019 // Businesses and residents near Dover Air Force Base in Delaware are being provided bottled water after chemical contaminants were found in private wells near the base at levels far exceeding federal health advisory...
Retiring Delaware Justice Strine Was Influential in Shareholder Cases
Jul 9 2019 // Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court Leo Strine will retire in the next few months, Governor John Carney announced on Monday, a leadership change in the court system that decides disputes for more than two-thirds of...
Delaware Chemical Manufacturer Fined $262K for Exposing Workers to Toxic Gas
Jul 1 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Croda Inc. after a chemical release at the New Castle, Del., manufacturing plant exposed workers to ethylene oxide. The...
Chemours Suit Claims DuPont’s Clean-Up Liability Estimates ‘Spectacularly Wrong’
Jul 1 2019 // Chemours Co. claims its former parent DuPont Inc.’s estimates on liabilities the spun-off company should cover were “spectacularly wrong” and wants a judge to block the chemical maker’s requests for...
Delaware Data Breach Impacts 95K Residents
Jun 27 2019 // The Delaware Department of Insurance recently received notice of a data security breach suffered by Dominion National, an insurer and administrator of dental and vision benefits, that impacted 95,000 Delaware residents. On...
Viewpoint: Why Medical Marijuana Laws Are Not a Gateway to Adult Use Legislation
Jun 24 2019 // The 2018-2019 legislative sessions of Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania have all but ended without the passage of adult use cannabis legislation. This was especially surprising in New York and New Jersey,...
Insurer Must Cover Defendant in Fatal Bathroom Fight Lawsuit
Jun 17 2019 // A Delaware judge says an insurance company must extend liability coverage to a teenager who was convicted of criminally negligent homicide after a school bathroom attack captured on cellphone video that left a 16-year-old...
Five Delaware Residents Sue Firms Over Water Contamination
Jun 7 2019 // Five Delaware residents whose water supply was contaminated by chemicals linked to health issues ranging from cancer to infertility are suing companies that manufactured the chemicals. The News Journal of Wilmington...
The Hilb Group Acquires Delaware’s Pfister Insurance
Jun 7 2019 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Delaware-based Pfister Insurance Inc. The transaction became effective June 1, 2019. Located in Dover, Pfister is a full-service property and casualty agency primarily providing...
Marijuana Legalization Front and Center in 3 States
Jun 7 2019 // Recreational marijuana use is grabbing attention in three states that appear poised at some point to clear the way for adults to buy and possess cannabis for reasons other than medicinal purposes. Illinois is set to become...
J&J Strikes Out in Bid to Transfer State Talcum Suits to Federal Court
May 10 2019 // Johnson & Johnson failed to get 2,400 state-court cancer lawsuits tied to its baby powder immediately transferred to a federal court in Delaware, where it could forge a single defense strategy. U.S. District Judge...
Delaware Supreme Court Rejects Untimely Appeal in Air Crash Lawsuit
Apr 30 2019 // Delaware’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal in a lawsuit stemming from a 2012 airplane crash in the Congo that claimed the life of the chief adviser to that country’s president and left his finance minister...
J&J Asks Federal Court to Assume Baby Powder Lawsuits from State Courts
Apr 23 2019 // Johnson & Johnson wants a federal judge to take over more than 2,000 baby-powder lawsuits it faces instead of allowing the cases to be heard by state-court juries, where the company has a mixed record. The...
