Maryland News

The Insurance Scholarship Foundation of America Announces the 2006-2007 Board of Directors and Officers.

Susanne N. Wolfe, CPIW of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. – Greenville Is Named Chairman Cornelius, NC – The NAIW Education Foundation d.b.a. Insurance Scholarship Foundation of America elected their Board of Directors, and Officers, for the upcoming year at …

David Morse & Associates Joins with Insurance Servicing & Adjusting Co.

David Morse & Associates (DM&A) Group based in Los Angeles has joined its operations with ISAC (Insurance Servicing & Adjusting Co.) of Sunrise, Fla. The move is designed to increase DM&A’s presence in the Southeast and bring to ISAC the …

AVRECO’s Borderline Med-Mal Market

Chicago-based wholesaler AVRECO has a new medical liability insurance market for borderline nonstandard physicians and surgeons. It’s geared toward doctors on their way to a standard market, but who haven’t quite arrived. While AVRECO will take on licensed physicians with …

New Markets

Outdoor Sports Nuts & Bolts: Markel’s Outdoors is a niche program for guide and outfitting professionals, private sporting clubs and hunting/fishing lodges. Marketed through select retail insurance agents. Dollars: Limits $300 to $1 million. Minimum premiums based on $1 million …

Lawyers Overseeing Lawyers: Can lawyers police themselves? A new look at self-regulation

No country has as many lawyers as the United States – more than 152,000 in California alone – three times as many as in all of France. Nor does any other country rely as heavily on the legal profession to …

Wal-Mart to court: nix Maryland’s employee health benefit law

Wal-Mart and other retailers challenged Maryland’s new law requiring Wal-Mart to spend more on employee health care, arguing before a Baltimore judge recently that only the federal government may dictate health spending by private companies. Maryland’s law requiring large employers …

New Markets

Outdoor Sports Nuts & Bolts: Markel’s Outdoors is a niche program for guide and outfitting professionals, private sporting clubs and hunting/fishing lodges. Marketed through select retail insurance agents. Dollars: Limits $300 to $1 million. Minimum premiums based on $1 million …

New Markets

Equipment Policies Nuts & Bolts: Britt Paulk Insurance Agency Inc. is offering an equipment policy program that includes agriculture, forestry, construction and lawn and garden. The coverage is first party physical damage for contractors’ equipment. Classes include contractors, agricultural, forestry, …

Lawyers Overseeing Layers

No country has as many lawyers as the United States — more than 152,000 in California alone — three times as many as in all of France. Nor does any other country rely as heavily on the legal profession to …

Wal-Mart to court: nix Maryland’s employee health benefit law

Wal-Mart and other retailers challenged Maryland’s new law requiring Wal-Mart to spend more on employee health care, arguing before a Baltimore judge recently that only the federal government may dictate health spending by private companies. Maryland’s law requiring large employers …