Delaware Insurance (DE)

In 2001 there were 518,000 ordinary life insurance policies in force with a total value of $36 billion; total value for all categories of life insurance (ordinary, group, industrial, and credit) was $86.1 billion. Death benefits paid that year totaled $221.5 million. As of 2003, there were 87 property and casualty and 46 life and health insurance companies incorporated or organized in the state. In 2001, property and casualty insurers wrote premiums totaling $1.5 billion. That year, there were 16,810 flood insurance policies in force in the state, with a total value of $2.4 million.