Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Redmer Resigns as Maryland Chief to Take Health Insurer Position
Oct 12 2005 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer is leaving his state job to become chief executive officer of Coventry Health Care, a Delaware-based health insurance company. “It’s just a perfect...
Redmer Reassures Public Over Katrina’s Impact on Md. Prices
Sep 15 2005 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr. attempted to reassure consumers today by telling them that they should not fear dramatic changes to the insurance market or insurance premiums in Maryland in the wake...
Pair of Former Md. Insurance Administration Employees Convicted
Sep 13 2005 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. announced that two former Maryland Insurance Administration Agent Enforcement Officers, William E. Unkle and Joseph E. Wolfe, pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the...
News Briefs
Sep 5 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS Fed Probe Firing of MassMutual CEO: Federal prosecutors are investigating the conduct that led to the firing of former MassMutual Insurance Comany chief executive Robert J. O’Connell, the company...
MED-MAL PAYOUTS DROPPING:
Sep 5 2005 // Payouts in medical malpractice awards in Maryland dropped last year after several years of big increases, prompting the state’s largest insurance carrier to keep the rates it charges doctors level in 2006. The...
News Briefs
Aug 22 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS Health Insurance Rates Rising: The state’s largest health insurers say most Massachusetts companies and their workers will see increases of 10 percent or more in their health insurance premiums...
Md. Cop Nabbed in Fraud Case
Aug 19 2005 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr., announced the filing of criminal insurance fraud charges against Jermaine Ayala, a police officer employed by the Prince Georges County Police Department. The indictment...
Maryland’s IWIF Partners with Pair of Members to Offer WC Coverage
Aug 19 2005 // IWIF Workers’ Compensation Insurance, a Maryland workers’ compensation insurance carrier, recently introduced two new target market programs specially designed for WANADA and AIMS members domiciled in...
Business Moves
Aug 8 2005 // Berkshire Hathaway, General Electric Omaha, Neb.-based Berkshire Hathaway and Kansas City, Mo.-based General Electric announced that GE Insurance Solutions’ sale of Medical Protective Corporation to Columbia...
Md. Insurance Administration Employees Charged in Licensing Scam
Aug 5 2005 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. has filed criminal charges in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against two former Maryland Insurance Administration agent enforcement officers for doctoring computer...
Insurers Sue Security Firm for Hiring Alleged Md. Arsonist
Jul 31 2005 // The insurers for the company building the Hunters Brooke development in Charles County, Maryland have filed a lawsuit against the security firm that employed one of the men who allegedly set fire to the subdivision last...
Md. Sedan Owners: Latest Insurance Hike Causing Industry Crisis
Jul 27 2005 // Already reeling from one insurance rate increase still under appeal, independent sedan transportation operators in Maryland have been told rates will be going up again. The Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund, a...
Md. Workers’ Comp Payments Outpace U.S. Average, Study Says
Jul 22 2005 // In Maryland, total workers’ compensation payments for injured workers’ cash benefits and medical care rose by 9.4 percent to $628.5 million in 2003, according to a report by the National Academy of Social...
Md. Man Pleads Guilty Following Subdivision Arson
Jun 28 2005 // United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Allen Loucks recently announced that Aaron Lee Speed, 21, of Waldorf, Maryland pled guilty to conspiracy to commit arson in connection with the Dec. 6, 2004 fire at the...
Md. Lawsuit Charges Flood Insurance Conspiracy to Low-Ball Claims
Jun 20 2005 // More than 140 claimants are suing federal flood insurance officials and the program’s insurance industry partners claiming they conspired to low-ball their claims payments after their properties were hit by Tropical...
Maryland’s IWIF Offering Free Young Workers Safety Kit to Employers
Jun 17 2005 // In recognition of IWIF’s Safety Saves Week, which runs June 19-25, Maryland’s IWIF has created a young worker safety kit for employers. Called Safety Rules, the free kit contains information and tools employers...
FEMA, Insurers, Adjusters Charged in Md. Lawsuit by Isabel Flood Victims
Jun 9 2005 // More than 140 victims of the 2003 tropical storm Isabel are suing Homeland Security Undersecretary Michael Brown, David Maurstad, who runs the National Flood Insurance Program, 17 insurance companies and others charging...
DOCTORS’ MED-MAL CHECKS MAILED:
Jun 6 2005 // Doctors in high-risk specialties whose malpractice premiums increased as much as 33 percent this year are getting some financial relief from malpractice legislation passed by the General Assembly last December. Medical...
News Briefs
Jun 6 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS Workers Comp Rates Up 3%: Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has approved a 3.0 percent overall average rate reduction in workers’ compensation rates, a savings of $32.6 million in...
AIA Praises Veto of Maryland Bill Involving Surety Bonds
May 24 2005 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) on Tuesday praised Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich (R) for vetoing legislation that would have reportedly set bad public policy for the state. SB 324 would have exposed the state of...
