Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
240K Marylanders Missing Out on Health Insurance Help
May 24 2016 // It’s an unusual problem: The more people in rural areas Mark Romaninsky and his team help sign up for health insurance, the more difficult it becomes to find people who still need to enroll. “It gets harder and...
Maryland Commissioner Redmer Elected Chair of NAIC Northeast Zone
May 16 2016 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Northeast Zone has elected Maryland Insurance Commissioner, Al Redmer, Jr., as its new chair. Redmer succeeds Susan L. Donegan, the outgoing commissioner of...
Hostetter Joins Jack Martin & Associates in Maryland
Apr 25 2016 // Damon Hostetter Jack Martin & Associates, a division of Easton, Maryland-based Avon-Dixon Agency, announced that Damon Hostetter has rejoined the firm. Hostetter will be the agency’s Yacht Division executive. He...
Maryland’s Chesapeake to Phase in NCCI Rates in 2020
Apr 18 2016 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance, announced its plan to phase in the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) rating...
People – East
Apr 18 2016 // Susan L. Donegan, who has been serving as commissioner of the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) for past three years, will step down from her position on June 30. Donegan has met with Vermont Gov. Peter...
Maryland Doctor Gets 9 Years in $3M Health Care Fraud Scheme
Apr 15 2016 // A Potomac, Maryland, physician who owned and operated a pain management clinic has been sentenced to 9 years in prison for a $3 million health care fraud scheme. Sixty-year-old Paramjit Singh Ajrawat was also ordered to...
Maryland’s Chesapeake Employers to Begin Phasing in NCCI Rates in 2020
Apr 5 2016 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance, announced its plan to phase in the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) rating...
People – East
Apr 4 2016 // Satellite Agency Network (SAN) Group Inc., an alliance of over 330 independent agencies in the Northeast, has hired Cindy Prouty as regional vice president of eastern Massachusetts. Prouty will be responsible for...
Imm Joins Maryland Insurance Administration as Public Affairs Director
Mar 30 2016 // Tracy Imm Maryland Insurance Commissioner Al Redmer Jr. announced the appointment of Tracy Imm as the Maryland Insurance Administration’s (MIA) director of Public Affairs. In her role, Imm will serve as the...
O’Grady Joins Maryland Insurance Administration as Associate Commissioner
Mar 24 2016 // Vincent P. O’Grady Maryland Insurance Commissioner Al Redmer, Jr., announced the appointment of Vincent P. O’Grady as the Maryland Insurance Administration’s (MIA) new associate commissioner, Examination...
The Hilb Group Acquires Raley, Watts & O’Neill in Maryland
Mar 16 2016 // The Hilb Group, a middle market insurance agency based in Richmond, Virginia, announced Wednesday that it has acquired Raley, Watts & O’Neill (RWO), an independent agency based in the town of California in...
Obama Approves Disaster Aid for Maryland Snowstorm
Mar 7 2016 // Emergency management officials say President Obama has approved Maryland’s request for a disaster declaration after January’s record-breaking snowstorm. The Maryland Emergency Management Agency said in a news...
Chesapeake Employers Announces 4 Promotions in Maryland
Mar 7 2016 // Joan Adelman Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance, announced the following four promotions. Joan Adelman was recently promoted to assistant...
Maryland Issues Bulletin on Minimum Days Notice
Mar 7 2016 // The Maryland Insurance Administration said it has come to regulators’ attention that some insurers and premium finance companies may not be providing the minimum days notice as prescribed by the Maryland statutes...
Maryland Farmers Encouraged to Consider Crop Insurance
Mar 3 2016 // Maryland Secretary of Agriculture Joe Bartenfelder issued a reminder for local farmers that the sales closing date to purchase crop insurance for spring seeded crops and to make changes to policies is March 15. Spring...
Brethren Mutual Appoints King as Farm Underwriting Manager in Maryland
Mar 2 2016 // Hope King The Brethren Mutual Insurance Company in Hagerstown, Maryland, has appointed Hope King as the company’s new Farm Underwriting manager. King succeeds MaryAnn Jones who retired after 39 years of service at...
Conviction in Fatal Maryland Crash Reversed on Insurance Technicality
Feb 29 2016 // A West Virginia woman sentenced to a year in jail for a crash that killed a 5-year-old girl has had her conviction reversed because Maryland has no criminal penalty for drivers of uninsured, out-of-state vehicles. The...
Maryland Issues Bulletin on Minimum Days Notice Requirement
Feb 26 2016 // The Maryland Insurance Administration said it has come to regulators’ attention that some insurers and premium finance companies may not be providing the minimum days’ notice as prescribed by the Maryland...
AmWINS Group Acquires Group Benefit Services in Maryland
Feb 24 2016 // AmWINS Group Inc. announced that it has acquired Group Benefit Services Inc. and GBS Payroll Plus Inc., known collectively as Group Benefit Services, in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Terms of the transaction were not...
Maryland’s Carroll County to Pilot State Changes to Drug Treatment Funding
Feb 23 2016 // Carroll County, Maryland, is poised to serve as a model for treating substance abuse across the state. The Carroll County Health Department plans to address changes to state funding of outpatient substance abuse services,...
