Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Amazon Not Liable for Selling Product that Allegedly Caused $300K in Fire Damage
Jun 4 2019 // The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ruled that Amazon.com Inc. is not responsible under Maryland law for products liability claims due to a defective product purchased on its website from a...
Officials Assess Damage After Tornado Confirmed in Maryland
Jun 3 2019 // The National Weather Service says a tornado touched down in Howard County, Maryland. The Baltimore Sun reported Friday that weather service meteorologists plan to survey the area to assess the damage. There were reports of...
Maryland Businessman Pleads Guilty to Stealing Up to $1.5M in Wine
May 16 2019 // A Maryland man pleaded guilty Tuesday to embezzling up to $1.5 million in upscale wine from customers who paid him to store the bottles, which he sold without their knowledge. A plea agreement calls for William Lamont...
Maryland Police Search for Survivors of Helicopter Crash
May 7 2019 // Rescue workers searched for survivors Saturday after a helicopter with two people aboard crashed into the Chesapeake Bay. The helicopter crashed into the water about a half-mile off Bloody Point, on the southern end of...
Board Faults Utility’s Equipment in Fatal 2016 Explosion in Maryland
Apr 25 2019 // A gas company’s faulty equipment is the most likely cause of an explosion at a suburban Maryland apartment complex that killed seven people in 2016, according to federal report issued Tuesday. The explosion and fire...
Car Sharing Lobbyists Battle Car Renting Lobbyists, Driving State Lawmakers Crazy
Apr 19 2019 // The bill that turned Illinois into the focal point of a bitter debate over car-sharing last year started as a proposal about what happens when a rental car is stolen. The legislation, which would allow rental companies to...
Redmer Reappointed for Another Term as Maryland Insurance Commissioner
Apr 9 2019 // The Maryland Insurance Administration has announced that the Maryland State Senate voted to confirm Al Redmer Jr. for another term as Maryland’s Insurance Commissioner, where he will oversee the independent...
Coface Appoints Haigley as Vice President in Maryland
Mar 27 2019 // Coface, a global credit insurer, has appointed Paul C. Haigley III as its vice president of broker and financial institutions relationship management in the U.S., based in the firm’s Maryland office. In this new...
State Farm to Cut Rates in Maryland for Second Time in Two Years
Mar 19 2019 // State Farm Insurance Companies will cut its rates in Maryland for the second time in two years. As a result, its overall personal auto rate will drop by 1.4 percent. The total state-wide expected impact for State Farm by...
Underwriting and Rating Tools Under Attack in State Legislatures
Mar 18 2019 // California, a bellwether state in many ways, rang in 2019 with a regulation banning the use of gender in auto insurance underwriting and rating. Prior to this regulation, insurers used gender in California for more than 30...
Hub International Limited Acquires The Insurance Exchange in Maryland
Mar 11 2019 // Hub International Limited has acquired The Insurance Exchange Inc. Based in Rockville, Md., The Insurance Exchange is an independent insurance agency that provides employee benefits consulting, commercial property and...
Marsh & McLennan Agency Acquires Maryland’s Employee Benefits Group
Mar 5 2019 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, has acquired Employee Benefits Group Inc. (EBG), a Bethesda, Md.-based independent insurance agency specializing in employee benefits and...
Maryland Man Who Suffered Brain Damage from Lead Paint Wins $2M
Feb 28 2019 // A Baltimore, Md., jury has awarded around $2 million to a man who has permanent brain damage from being exposed to lead paint as a child. The Daily Record reports a jury on Friday awarded 24-year-old Savon Johnson $1.1...
National Transportation Safety Board Investigating Worker Death in Maryland
Feb 12 2019 // Federal officials are investigating after a railroad worker was killed at a Baltimore, Md., railyard. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Keith Holloway said by telephone that a Norfolk Southern worker was...
Maryland Insurance Agency Settles Gender Discrimination Lawsuit
Feb 1 2019 // The Maryland Insurance Administration has settled a lawsuit over gender-based pay discrimination. News outlets report the agency will pay nearly $37,000 to three female fraud investigators who say they were paid less than...
Washington D.C.’s Ensurise Merges with Maryland’s Reese, Yeatman & Associates
Jan 24 2019 // Independent insurance agency Ensurise LLC has merged with the property and casualty insurance brokerage operations of Reese, Yeatman & Associates Inc. Founded more than 40 years ago by Michael G. Reese Sr., Reese...
Maryland Family Sues for Up to $20M Over Man’s Death at Delaware Junk Yard
Jan 23 2019 // The family of a Maryland man crushed by a van in a Delaware junk yard is suing the business for up to $20 million for gross negligence, wrongful death and other claims. The News Journal of Wilmington reports the family of...
The Hilb Group Acquires Maryland’s D’Camera Group
Jan 10 2019 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired D’Camera Group (DG). The transaction became effective January 1, 2019. Located in Annapolis, Md., DG is a full-service insurance agency founded in 2006 and primarily provides...
Libertate/Risk MD Merges With Ballator Group of Florida
Jan 7 2019 // Ballator Insurance Group (BIG) of Orlando, Fla., and Libertate Insurance/RiskMD have merged to offer support with insurance placements and data management for professional employer organizations (PEO’s). BIG and its...
East States See Health, Flood Coverages as Key in 2019 with Insurtech, Recruitment Raising Concerns
Jan 7 2019 // From big data and blockchain to autonomous vehicles and new technology that isn’t yet on the radar, “change is inevitable” for the insurance industry in 2019. “Insurance companies, insurance...
