Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Md. Insurer to Return $100 Million to Doctors, State
Dec 23 2007 // A major medical liability insurer will return nearly $100 million to the state of Maryland and local doctors, in a deal announced by state officials. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Insurance Commissioner Ralph S....
Fire Damages Maryland Shopping Center
Dec 18 2007 // Fire officials say a fire in Mill Creek, Md. has caused heavy damage at a strip shopping center on Kirkwood Highway. The fire west of Mill Creek was reported shortly after midnight Monday in the 5900 block of Kirkwood...
Medical Mutual Returning $100M to Maryland, Local Physicians
Dec 17 2007 // A major medical liability insurer will return nearly $100 million to the state of Maryland and local doctors, in a deal announced by state officials. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Insurance Commissioner Ralph S....
Maryland Names Sammis Deputy Insurance Commissioner
Nov 7 2007 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler has appointed Elizabeth Sammis as deputy insurance commissioner. Sammis is currently vice president for Government Affairs, Mid-Atlantic Region, for United Healthcare, and she...
Md.-Pa.-Del. Agents Group Highlights Delaware Merger, Elects Officers
Oct 26 2007 // The Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group held its annual meeting Oct. 17, marking a year that included the inception of the Delaware Association of Insurance Agents & Brokers Inc. into its organization. The...
Md. Workplace Fatalities Rises in 2006
Oct 24 2007 // Statistics show the number of fatal work injuries in Maryland rose to 105 last year, an increase of 10 from the year before. The figure also represents the highest annual total since the U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Maryland Malpractice Insurer Told Its $69 Million Dividend Belongs to State
Oct 9 2007 // Maryland’s largest medical malpractice insurer should return its entire $68.6 million dividend to the state, instead of the $32.5 million it has proposed as part of its exit from a subsidy program designed to lower...
Md. Task Forces Hears From Industry on Need for Stronger Structures
Oct 4 2007 // Opportunities exist in the public and private sectors to increase the disaster resistance of homes and businesses and contribute to the overall health of Maryland’s insurance market, says Harvey Ryland, president and...
Maryland’s Shore Bancshares Acquires Marine Insurance Agency, Wholesaler
Oct 2 2007 // Shore Bancshares, Inc. , parent company of three independent community banks and two retail insurance agencies serving the Delmarva peninsula, has closed two new acquisitions including a retail agency specializing in...
Maryland Jury Awards $4 Million in Boy’s Drowning at Country Club
Sep 27 2007 // An jury in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County has awarded the parents of a five-year-old boy who drowned at Crofton Country Club last year more than $4 million in damages. The jury found Hunt Valley-based DRD Pool...
News Currents
Sep 24 2007 // Tyler named Maryland commissioner Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley named attorney and long-time advisor Ralph S. Tyler to be the state’s insurance commissioner responsible for overseeing the regulation of...
From the Big Apple to the Corn State
Sep 24 2007 // From the executive office of the Greater New York Mutual Insurance Companies on Madison Avenue in the heart of New York City, Warren Heck, chairman and chief executive officer, can see Illinois. “It’s...
Tyler named Maryland commissioner
Sep 24 2007 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley named attorney and long-time advisor Ralph S. Tyler to be the state’s insurance commissioner responsible for overseeing the regulation of Maryland’s $26 billion insurance...
Md. Insurer Says It No Longer Needs Malpractice Premium Subsidy
Sep 19 2007 // Maryland’s largest medical malpractice insurer plans to leave a state premium subsidy program and return some of the money it has received, saying it no longer needs the subsidy to stabilize premiums for doctors...
Maryland Puts Hold on $68 Million Medical Mutual Dividend
Sep 14 2007 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler wants to review a large medical malpractice insurance dividend payment before it goes out. Newly-appointed Tyler said he will hold a hearing next month to review a plan by...
Lawsuits Against Restaurants at Center of Md. Debate Over Disabilities Act
Sep 6 2007 // Jeri Wasco, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, visited a Hyattsville, Maryland shopping center recently and found curb ramps that were too steep and no elevators going to the second floor. She filed a federal...
Maryland Officials to Explain Good Faith P/C Damage Filings
Sep 6 2007 // The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) will conduct a workshop to explain how it will implement newly enacted legislation that authorizes the award of enhanced damages against property and casualty insurance companies...
Insurer Doesn’t Have to Pay for Miss. Pastor’s Sex Charge Defense
Sep 6 2007 // State Farm Insurance Co. does not have to pay to defend the Rev. Jeffery Stallworth of Jackson, Miss., from a civil lawsuit filed by a Maryland woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2001 in her home, a...
Md. Gov. O’Malley Names Tyler as Insurance Commissioner
Sep 6 2007 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley this morning named attorney and long-time advisor Ralph S. Tyler to be the state’s insurance commissioner responsible for overseeing the regulation of Maryland’s $26 billion...
Maryland’s IWIF Promotes Beck to CFO
Aug 24 2007 // IWIF Workers’ Compensation Insurance in Maryland has promoted Paige Beck to the position of executive vice president and chief financial officer. In this position, Beck oversees all financial activities for the...
