Latest Delaware Headlines
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Police Nab 316 Distracted Drivers on Phones in Dover, Delaware
Oct 16 2014 // Police in Dover, Delaware, have doled out more than 300 tickets to distracted drivers for texting and talking on their cell phones. The 316 tickets were part of a 12-day blitz that ended Sunday, Oct. 12, and eclipse the...
RBC Facing $76 Million in Shareholder Claim Over Merger
Oct 14 2014 // A Delaware judge said Royal Bank of Canada must pay $75.8 million in damages to former shareholders of Rural/Metro because it failed to disclose conflicts of interest that tainted the $438 million buyout of the ambulance...
Speed-Trap Tipoff Tickets in Delaware Lead to ACLU Lawsuit
Oct 8 2014 // A town police department in Smyrna, Delaware, is facing a lawsuit over its ticket-writing policies after the Delaware American Civil Liberties Union said police wrongly ticketed a driver who flashed his headlights to warn...
Dover, Delaware to Target Drivers Using Handheld Cellphones
Oct 3 2014 // For the first time, Dover, Delaware, police are using a team of officers to target drivers who text and talk on the road. The department says that despite many campaigns to spread awareness that it’s illegal to use...
Wal-Mart Says Tracy Morgan Is to Blame for Injuries in Highway Crash
Sep 29 2014 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said actor-comedian Tracy Morgan is to blame for injuries he sustained in June highway crash because he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. Morgan, who was critically injured when the limousine bus he was...
Nightclub Insurer Owner in Maryland Charged in $100M Policyholder Fraud
Sep 18 2014 // The owner of a Maryland-based insurer faces fraud charges for inflating the ratings of his company to win business, according to an indictment which seeks to recover more than $100 million in premiums his clients...
Delaware Insurance Department Appoints Grant as Communications Director
Sep 11 2014 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced that she has named Jerry Grant as communications director for the Department of Insurance. Grant spent nine years with the Democratic Caucus in the Delaware...
Delaware WC Panel Begins Work
Sep 8 2014 // A Delaware panel established to oversee efforts to keep the state’s workers’ comp rates affordable is getting down to work. Delaware’s Workers Compensation Oversight Panel is charged with creating a new...
IA&B Announces Officers for New Administrative Year
Sep 2 2014 // Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group (IA&B) in Mechanicsburg, Penn., and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania announced officers for the new administrative year...
NORCAL Mutual Begins Offering Med Mal Coverage in Del., Penn.
Aug 29 2014 // NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company, a medical professional liability insurance carrier domiciled in San Francisco, said it is now offering its medical professional liability coverage to healthcare professionals in Delaware...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Oversight Panel Begins Work
Aug 26 2014 // A Delaware panel established to oversee efforts to keep the state’s workers compensation rates affordable is getting down to work. Delaware’s Workers Compensation Oversight Panel is charged with creating a new...
Nightclub Insurer Founder to Remain in Custody in Maryland
Aug 8 2014 // A federal judge says a Maryland businessman will remain in custody pending trial on charges of lying to Delaware insurance regulators. Jeffrey Cohen is the founder and former CEO of Indemnity Insurance Corp., which...
Delaware Regulators Recover $1.4M for Consumers in 1st Half of 2014
Jul 28 2014 // The Delaware Department of Insurance reported that regulators recovered more than $1.4 million for consumers in the first six months of 2014. This amount represents an increase of 49.57 percent in funds recovered for...
Wal-Mart Must Share Documents on Mexico Bribery Probe: Court
Jul 28 2014 // The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed last Wednesday a lower court ruling that ordered Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to provide a shareholder with documents related to the company’s internal probe of allegations the retailer...
Delaware OKs Bill Aimed at Lowering Workers’ Comp Costs
Jul 21 2014 // Delaware lawmakers last month approved legislation aimed at lowering the state’s workers’ compensation insurance costs. Delaware House Bill 373 (“An Act to Amend Titles 18 and 19 of the Delaware Code...
6.5 Million Homes from Maine to Texas at Risk for Storm Surge: CoreLogic
Jul 10 2014 // More than 6.5 million homes along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of storm surge inundation, representing nearly $1.5 trillion in total potential reconstruction costs. More than $986 billion of that risk is...
Insurers Suspect Fraud, Sue Phillips Asbestos Trust
Jul 6 2014 // Six insurance companies are suing an asbestos personal injury trust set up by a U.S. unit of Philips that the insurers suspect has been making millions of dollars in fraudulent payments to parties that cannot prove they...
Delaware Launching Annual Sobriety Checkpoint Campaign This Weekend
Jul 2 2014 // Delaware authorities are holding the state’s first sobriety checkpoint for drivers this weekend. The first checkpoint for the 14th annual checkpoint campaign is scheduled for Friday, the Fourth of July, in...
Del. Lawmakers Approve Bill Aimed at Lowering Workers’ Comp Medical Costs
Jun 27 2014 // Delaware lawmakers have given final approval to legislation aimed at lowering workers’ compensation insurance rates in Delaware. The bill approved unanimously by the Senate on Wednesday calls for a 33 percent...
Electronic Proof of Auto Insurance Now Accepted in Delaware
Jun 26 2014 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart is alerting drivers in Delaware that as of June 25, 2014, state law enforcement officials can accept proof of auto insurance (insurance ID card) in either physical or...
