Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Arson Suspected in Fires in Posh Md. Subdivision; FBI Also Looking into Possible Ecoterrorism
Dec 8 2004 // Investigators suspect arson in at least four of the fires that destroyed a dozen homes and burned several others in Indian Head, a posh Maryland subdivision under construction near a nature preserve, and the FBI said it...
Md. Special Session on Med-Mal Called Unlikely
Dec 8 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s failure to provide a source of funds needed to underwrite malpractice insurance premiums makes a special session of the legislature unlikely, according to Senate President Thomas V....
Task Force X-Rays Maryland Medical Malpractice System
Dec 6 2004 // Having low risk doctors subsidize premiums for higher risk doctors, establishing state courts exclusively for health matters, abolishing the state’s arbitration office, licensing life care planners, restricting...
Task Force Report In But Time Running Out for Maryland Med Mal Session
Dec 6 2004 // Gov. Robert Ehrlich, who submitted medical malpractice reform legislation more than a month ago, has received a final report from a task force he created to recommend solutions to the insurance crisis. The report contains...
Sandy Spring Bank to Acquire Md. Agency
Dec 2 2004 // Sandy Spring Bank, a subsidiary of Sandy Spring Bancorp, announced that Sandy Spring Insurance Corporation has reached an agreement to acquire certain assets & liabilities of Wolfe & Reichelt Insurance Agency,...
Special Legislative Session in Maryland Unlikely Before Doctors Med-Mal Payments Due
Nov 19 2004 // The head of a Maryland Senate committee developing legislation to deal with rising medical malpractice premiums said the panel should finalize its proposal at its next meeting in two weeks, and doesn’t think a...
Study: Medical Liability Harming Maryland Economy
Nov 17 2004 // A hospital industry backed study indicates that Maryland’s medical liability environment that is costing medical professionals more and more could end up costing as many as 3,000 jobs by 2005. “The effects of...
Md. Insurer Raises Rates for 6,000 Doctors
Nov 16 2004 // In what state legislators call a looming medical malpractice insurance crisis, the debate has focused on trial lawyers and incompetent doctors. Less attention has been paid to the Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society...
Md. Commissioner to Host Regional Meeting Nov. 29
Nov 11 2004 // In light of what his agency says was the success of an initial round of regional meetings throughout various parts of the state, Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr., announced that the Maryland Insurance...
Some Maryland Doctors, Irked by Costs, Consider Going ‘Bare,’ Shifting Liability to Hospitals
Nov 1 2004 // Doctors at several Maryland hospitals who are fed up with rising medical malpractice insurance costs are considering doing without the coverage, or “going bare.” The strategy, used by thousands of Florida...
Md. Gov.’s Med-Mal Plan Gets Frosty Reception from Senate Leader Miller; Special Session in Doubt
Oct 28 2004 // Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller this week blasted Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s latest medical malpractice plan as “a work of fiction” and “a completely different bill” from the one he, the...
Md. Governor Files Med-Mal Measure
Oct 27 2004 // Legislation that would offer doctors immediate relief from increases in malpractice insurance premiums and hold the line on future rate hikes was presented to the Maryland General Assembly leaders this week by Gov. Robert...
States Battle Resentment Over Red-Light Safety Cameras
Oct 25 2004 // Maryland Sen. Alex Mooney (R-Frederick) fought a ticket for running a red light last year despite film showing his car blowing through an intersection. A judge accepted proof that a car thief, not Mooney, was behind the...
MD. REPORT BACKS ISABEL VICTIMS:
Oct 25 2004 // Problems within the federal flood insurance agency have kept victims of Tropical Storm Isabel from getting adequate settlements for storm damage, according to a report by a flood insurance activist. The report, released by...
Maryland Receives NAIC Accreditation
Oct 22 2004 // The Maryland Insurance Administration received an accreditation award under the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Financial Regulation Standards and Accreditation Program at the 2004 NAIC fall...
Greater New York Open for Business in Maryland
Oct 22 2004 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer has welcomed the Greater New York (GNY) Insurance Companies to the Maryland. Warren W. Heck, GNY’s chairman and chief exexcutive fofficer announced the companies...
Md. Leaders Optimistic Over Med-Mal Session
Oct 18 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich and top legislative leaders emerged from a meeting in the governor’s mansion last Thursday, holding out hope of a special legislative session next month to deal with a medical malpractice...
MD. DOCS HALT SURGERY IN PROTEST:
Oct 11 2004 // Physicians in northwest Maryland plan to halt non-emergency surgeries for at least two weeks to protest a 33 percent increase in malpractice premiums. The Maryland Insurance Administration approved the increase for 2005...
Md. Docs Postpone Surgery Slowdown
Oct 6 2004 // Four Washington County, Maryland doctors have agreed to an indefinite delay of their plan to halt non-emergency surgery to protest a 33 percent increase in medical malpractice insurance premiums. After a meeting with Gov....
Five Charged in Md. Auto Accident Scam
Oct 6 2004 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. announced the filing of felony insurance fraud, felony theft and conspiracy charges against Michael Horner, former owner of Contemporary Auto in Harford County, and four...
