Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart fined Allstate Insurance Co. and Encompass Insurance Co. a total of $50,000 for violating state insurance laws, which the insurers blamed on computer problems.

Elephant Auto Insurance is giving a 5% discount on policies written for community college students in Virginia.

Newark, Del., has started a program to help its residents with the high cost of prescription drugs by distributing free discount cards.

Having touted its early success in implementing some parts of new federal health reform law, officials now say a $250 rebate check to seniors who fall into the Medicare “doughnut hole” will be in the mail in the next two weeks.

Travelers Insurance’s discounts on “green” homeowners’ products won approval from the Pennsylvania Insurance Department in a first step toward its gauging of climate change strategies by insurers statewide.

Independence Blue Cross will begin offering a Student PPO in the fall, an extension of its brand into the colleges and universities in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

More than 2,400 Allstate customers from Delaware will receive refunds or credits totaling $428,355 after the auto insurer neglected to give them proper discounts for completing a defensive driving course.

Delaware regulators have changed rules regarding defensive driving programs, strengthening oversight for providers and offering discounts to drivers.

Foremost Insurance Group is now offering Maryland consumers its new DistinctChoice automobile program.

Michigan-based Foremost Insurance Group plans to expand its dwelling fire program in New Jersey, as of Jan. 10.