October 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 average loss costs by 8.4%, and the residual market will …
October 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 Research Institute …
October 13, 2023
Changes in the availability of medical services during the pandemic was one of the drivers of Delaware workers’ compensation claims costs in 2020 and 2021. A new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) found that total costs per …
October 12, 2023
Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro announced that Delaware’s workers’ compensation rates will decrease for the seventh year in a row, effective December 1, 2023. The voluntary market is expected to decrease 7.24%, while the residual market will see a reduction of …
September 7, 2023
The Delaware Supreme Court has broken with its own precedent to rule that a workers’ compensation insurance carrier may assert a lien against benefits an injured employee recovers from other sources. The particular issue before the court was whether an …
March 22, 2023
The Superior Court of Delaware has reversed an order of the Industrial Accident Board (IAB) that an injured former employee stop her doctor-prescribed morphine treatments within six months. The court blasted the IAB for “clearly” abusing its discretion with its …
October 18, 2022
Delaware workers’ compensation insurance rates will decrease for the sixth year in a row, effective December 1, 2022. Both the voluntary market and the residual market will see rate decreases in the double digits. The Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau (DCRB) …
September 16, 2022
A Delaware workers’ compensation law passed in 2014 has succeeded in lowering workers’ compensation medical claim costs, new research shows. The report from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) found the average medical payment per claim decreased about 33% between …
November 17, 2015
Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart today announced the approval of Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau (DCRB)’s workers’ compensation amended rate filing, resulting in an overall average increase of 7.09 percent in residual market rates and 7.20 percent in voluntary market …
September 22, 2015
Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart and the Delaware Department of Insurance announced that the Department has recovered $995,558 for consumers during the first six months of 2015. The Delaware Department of Insurance said its Consumer Services Division received 2,345 …