Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Md. Senate Committee Nixes Bill Forcing Insurers to Write on Coast
Mar 22 2007 // Maryland has decided not to require home insurers to cover all areas of the state, even coastal areas. The state Senate was considering a bill to require the insurance after state’s second-largest home insurer —...
Maryland Department’s Lininger Leaves to Form Lobbying Firm
Mar 19 2007 // Brett Lininger, formerly director of government relations for the Maryland Insurance Administration, has left that state agency to form his own government relations firm called Lininger & Associates. His office is...
FDA Warns Against Eating Raw Texas Oysters After Virus Outbreak
Mar 5 2007 // The Food and Drug Administration says consumers should avoid eating raw oysters harvested from San Antonio Bay in Texas because more than two dozen people in Maryland became ill last month. The FDA said 25 people developed...
Md. Court Reinstates Class Action on Purely Economic, Not Physical, Injury
Mar 5 2007 // A potentially far-reaching ruling by the Maryland Court of Appeals reinstates a class action suit against several U.S. automakers even though the plaintiffs were not injured by allegedly defective seat-backs. Plaintiffs...
Maryland mulls how to keep property insurers on coast
Feb 26 2007 // Alarmed that homeowners on Maryland’s coasts may one day be cut off from home insurance, state lawmakers are mulling new rules prohibiting insurers from pulling out of areas they deem risky. But insurers met with...
Declarations
Feb 26 2007 // Brady in court “At that moment I wasn’t sure what was happening, if that was normal or not normal.” New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady testifying that he watched his mentor, Charlie Weis, move in...
News Currents
Feb 25 2007 // Maryland mulls how to keep property insurers on coast Alarmed that homeowners on Maryland’s coasts may one day be cut off from home insurance, state lawmakers are mulling new rules prohibiting insurers from pulling...
Declarations
Feb 25 2007 // Brady in court “At that moment I wasn’t sure what was happening, if that was normal or not normal.” New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady testifying that he watched his mentor, Charlie Weis, move in...
Former Md. Insurance Chief Picked to Head Public Utilities Panel
Feb 21 2007 // Gov. Martin O’Malley nominated former Maryland Insurance Commissioner Steven Larsen to head the Public Service Commission on Friday, tapping a man with a reputation for standing up for consumers’ interests but...
Maryland Mulls Ways to Keep Insurers from Abandoning Coastal Properties
Feb 15 2007 // Alarmed that homeowners on Maryland’s coasts may one day be cut off from home insurance, state lawmakers are mulling new rules prohibiting insurers from pulling out of areas they deem risky. But insurers met with...
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A Computer Hacker Strikes Every 39 Seconds, Warns U. of Md. Study
Feb 7 2007 // Are hackers trying to get into your computer right now? And what are they up to? A study by the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering is one of the first to quantify the near-constant rate of...
Maryland Told It Must Comply with Federal Real ID Driver’s License Act
Feb 1 2007 // Maryland must comply with the federal Real ID Act, Transportation Secretary nominee John D. Porcari told the Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The Real ID Act mandates that states verify documents proving an applicant is a...
People
Jan 28 2007 // Lloyd’s of London announced that Julian James, its director-worldwide markets, will be leaving at the end of April to join Lockton International. James has been responsible for all Lloyd’s commercial activities...
Previously-Rejected Cell Phone Ban on Redial in Maryland Legislature
Jan 25 2007 // A cell phone ban for Maryland drivers has been considered — and rejected — many times by state lawmakers. However, two new plans before lawmakers have some asking if this is the year Maryland will join Washington, D.C....
Aon to Cut 500 Jobs in N.Y., Texas, Maryland
Jan 22 2007 // Insurance brokerage firm Aon Corp. said last week it would lay off 550 workers at its facilities in New York, Texas and Maryland. Aon spokesman Rahsaan Johnson said the Chicago-based company was consolidating its...
U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Maryland’s Wal-Mart Mandate
Jan 18 2007 // The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has affirmed a lower court decision that federal ERISA law invalidates a Maryland law that would have required giant retailer Wal-Mart to offer a certain level of...
Prosecutors Seek Severance Paid Former Md. Insurance Fund Chief
Jan 14 2007 // Federal prosecutors pursuing public corruption charges against former Maryland state Sen. Thomas Bromwell are trying to seize the $400,000 buyout he received when he stepped down as head of the state’s largest...
Robinson Named Director of Md. Insurance Government Relations
Jan 12 2007 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner R. Steven Orr has appointed Kimberly Yvette Robinson as director of government relations at the Maryland Insurance Administration. Robinson succeeds Brett Lininger who resigned the agency in...
Outgoing Md. AG Curran Interested in Workers’ Comp Fund Job
Jan 2 2007 // Outgoing Attorney General Joseph Curran said he would be interested in temporarily heading the Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund while the agency’s board looks for a permanent president. Former state Sen. Thomas...
