Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
People
Jun 20 2011 // Willis has appointed Jana Rucker director of marketing for Willis Commercial Network – North America, where she will lead promotional marketing, communications and industry relations activities. She joins Willis from...
Goldsmith Named Maryland Insurance Commissioner
May 31 2011 // Therese Goldsmith has been appointed as Maryland’s insurance commissioner. She most recently served as commissioner of the Public Service Commission of Maryland. She was previously a partner in the law firm Hogan...
Maryland Official Files $21 Million Libel Suit Against Blogger
May 13 2011 // Baltimore Councilwoman Belinda Conaway is suing a political blogger and his publisher for $21 million for libel and defamation over a column that alleged she did not live in the city. The suit alleges an Examiner.com...
Clothes Dryer Blamed for Maryland House Explosion
May 6 2011 // Authorities say an improperly installed clothes dryer caused an explosion that destroyed a Maryland home and seriously injured two people. Montgomery County fire officials blamed the early Wednesday morning blast on the...
Maryland Weighs Prohibition on Insurers’ Use of Credit Scores
Apr 4 2011 // Maryland lawmakers are weighing whether to prohibit insurers from using credit scores to rate auto insurance policies — a move insurers say is a bad idea. The economic matters committee of the House of Delegates recently...
Maryland Weighs Prohibition on Insurers’ Use of Credit Scores
Mar 22 2011 // Maryland lawmakers are weighing whether to prohibit insurers from using credit scores to rate auto policies — a move insurers say is a bad idea. The economic matters committee of the House of Delegates recently held an...
Maryland Gov. Pushes $100M Tax Credit Program for Insurers
Jan 26 2011 // Gov. Martin O’Malley is pushing for a $100 million initiative to promote high-tech industry in Maryland. O’Malley made the “Invest Maryland” program a part of his legislative agenda on Monday. The...
Mina Named Managing Partner for Willis of Maryland
Nov 10 2010 // John Mina has been appointed managing partner at Willis of Maryland, Inc. Mina will be responsible for business development for Willis’ Washington, D.C.-based insurance brokerage operations. He will be based in...
Maryland Court Upholds State Cap on Lawsuit Payouts
Oct 4 2010 // Maryland’s highest court has upheld a state law that limits the amount of money people can receive for suffering in lawsuits. Judges on the Court of Appeals ruled against the parents of a 5-year-old boy who drowned...
Maryland Couple Sues over Bedbugs in Apartment
Sep 30 2010 // A Maryland couple has filed a $500,000 lawsuit over a bedbug infestation in an Ellicott City apartment. Orville and Rebecca Brown say they were forced to move out of their apartment and throw away most of their...
Maryland Court Upholds State Cap on Lawsuit Payouts
Sep 28 2010 // Maryland’s highest court has upheld a state law that limits the amount of money people can receive for suffering in lawsuits. Judges on the Court of Appeals ruled against the parents of a 5-year-old boy who drowned...
Settlement Reached in Maryland Bridge Crash Lawsuit
Sep 24 2010 // Attorneys have reached a settlement in a lawsuit over a fatal crash on the Bay Bridge in the summer of 2008. Fifty-seven-year-old John Short died after he swerved his tractor-trailer to avoid hitting Candy Baldwin’s...
People
Sep 6 2010 // Aon Consulting has named Shelly Blackstone as vice president of business development in its Richmond, Virginia office. In her new role, Blackstone will develop new products and services clients in Central and Southern...
IA&B Groups Elects New Officers and Directors
Aug 27 2010 // The Insurance Agents & Brokers, a partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania has elected new directors. Chairman David Rosenkilde, of ABCO/ICS Insurance Services Inc., in...
Westfield Expands in Maryland
Aug 12 2010 // Ohio-based Westfield Insurance said it has expanded its commercial operations in Maryland, with new accounts being serviced from the company’s Pennsylvania office. The firm said its existing surety accounts in...
Second Indictment Charges Maryland Broker with $2.5M Theft
Jul 23 2010 // A New Jersey grand jury has indicted a Maryland insurance broker, his companies and an accomplice on charges they conspired to steal $2.5 million from the Perth Amboy school system, the state’s attorney general...
Lundy Named VP at Maryland’s IWIF
Jul 2 2010 // Paulette Lundy has been promoted to vice president of Human Resources for Maryland’s Injured Worker Insurance Fund (IWIF), a workers’ compensation insurer. She previously served as director of human resources...
Maryland Jury Awards $2M in Inmate Highway Death
Jun 28 2010 // A Prince George’s County Circuit Court jury found the state of Maryland and a truck driver liable Thursday for roughly $2 million after the August 2007 death of an inmate who was killed while picking up trash along...
Physhield Insurance Exchange Approved by the State of Maryland
Jun 14 2010 // Physicians Healthcare Management Group, Inc.’s exclusive affiliate, Physhield Insurance Exchange, a Risk Retention Group, has received approval from the state of Maryland Insurance Administration to underwrite...
Insurers as Venture Capitalists? Maryland Pondering Tax Credit Plan
Jun 2 2010 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has a new proposal aimed at boosting the amount of venture capital for businesses like bioscience companies. The governor rolled out the proposal on Tuesday during a speech to academic,...
