Latest Maryland Headlines
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Small Business Online Insurer AssureStart Now Writing in Maryland, Pennsylvania
Feb 14 2014 // AssureStart, a Seattle-based start-up direct company that sells small business insurance on the Internet, has opened for business in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Owned primarily by American Family Insurance, AssureStart...
Maryland Lawmakers Seek Compromise on Dog Bite Legislation
Feb 10 2014 // A new bill from Maryland’s state Senate would hold the state’s dog owners liable when their dogs bite “innocent victims,” but would also relieve owners who prove they couldn’t know their dogs...
Maryland Gov. Signs Retroactive Health Insurance Bill
Feb 3 2014 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Jan. 30 signed into law a measure to help people get medical insurance retroactive to Jan. 1, if computer problems with Maryland’s health exchange prevented them from signing up...
Maryland Reviews Legislative Remedy for Health Exchange Glitch
Jan 28 2014 // Maryland’s House of Delegates will likely vote Tuesday on a plan to help residents who have struggled with the state’s health insurance exchange online. The bill would let customers sign up for retroactive...
Maryland Senate Approves Bill to Remedy Health Exchange Problems
Jan 23 2014 // The Maryland Senate has passed a measure to provide health insurance for people who tried to enroll online in the state’s health exchange, but couldn’t due to computer problems. The Senate voted 38-8 for the...
Maryland Will Meet Health Care Goal by End of March, Gov. O’Malley Says
Jan 13 2014 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is acknowledging a troubled start for Maryland’s online health insurance exchange, but he predicted on Jan. 12 that the state will still meet its enrollment goal by the end of...
Maryland Gov. O’Malley to Push Emergency Health Insurance Bill
Jan 6 2014 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s administration will submit emergency legislation at the start of Maryland’s legislative session this week aimed at insuring people who thought they had successfully...
MD Jensvold Appoints Brinson, Guzzetta as Executive VPs, Corporate Officers
Jan 6 2014 // Houston-based managing general agency and program manager, MD Jensvold, announced that Teri Brinson and Sarah Guzzetta have been named executive vice presidents and corporate officers. Brinson has been in the insurance...
Maryland the 3rd State to See Health Insurance Exchange Director Go
Dec 9 2013 // Fourteen states and the District of Columbia told the federal government they could run their own health insurance exchanges, but three people leading their states’ exchanges have now left following problem-plagued...
University of Maryland Project Aims to Improve Storm Predictions
Dec 2 2013 // Scientists at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory have a new project in the works that aims to better predict the intensity of storm surges on the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay...
MidAtlantic Farm Credit Hires Crop Insurance Specialist in Maryland
Nov 25 2013 // MidAtlantic Farm Credit, an agricultural lending cooperative, recently hired Rachel Melvin as a crop insurance specialist. Melvin will be based out of the organization’s office in Denton, Maryland. In her new role,...
State Proposals to Mandate Insurance for Gun Owners Falter
Nov 19 2013 // Plans to mandate liability coverage for U.S. gun owners after last year’s school shooting in Connecticut have languished as opponents attack the proposals by comparing them to President Barack Obama’s health...
IA&B Service Group Announces New Officers in Del., Md., Penn.
Nov 11 2013 // The fall marks a new administrative year for Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The following directors have been...
Md.-Based Victor O. Schinnerer & Co. Names Senior Underwriting Manager
Nov 4 2013 // Chevy Chase, Md.-based underwriting manager Victor O. Schinnerer & Company Inc. has named Steve Cohen as senior underwriting manager for its management liability programs. In his new role, Cohen will oversee the...
Maryland’s Chesapeake Employers: Business as Usual for Policyholders, Agents
Nov 1 2013 // Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance and the insurer of last resort adopted a new name and a new corporate structure in October. The 99-year-old Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund...
For Western Maryland, Last Year’s Sandy Blizzard Was a Painful Lesson
Oct 28 2013 // The mountain dwellers of far western Maryland know a lot about snow, but a crippling blizzard spawned last year by Superstorm Sandy taught them a painful lesson in emergency preparedness. Scattershot planning and outdated...
Maryland’s Chesapeake Employers Promotes Dreher to Director of Underwriting
Oct 24 2013 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, formerly IWIF, recently announced that Joanne Dreher has been promoted to director of underwriting.Joanne DreherIn this new position, Dreher is responsible for the operational...
USI Insurance Acquires Richard J. Princinsky & Associates in Maryland
Oct 8 2013 // USI Insurance Services announced the closing of the acquisition of Richard J. Princinsky & Associates Inc., located in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1976, Richard J....
Maryland’s IWIF Converts to Chesapeake Employers
Oct 7 2013 // On Oct. 1, the Injured Worker’s Insurance Fund (IWIF), Maryland’s largest provider of workers’ compensation insurance, launched a new name and corporate structure as a private, not-for-profit company. As...
Obamacare Day 3: High Demand, Enrollment Glitches Persist
Oct 4 2013 // Americans trying to find out how much health coverage will cost under Obamacare endured a third day of limited access to new online health insurance exchanges on Thursday, leading to a growing backlog of people waiting to...
