All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 8 2019 // The Maryland Department of Labor has started notifying about 78,000 customers about potential unauthorized activity in two of its database systems.The department said Friday that while some personally identifiable...
Jun 28 2019 // The fate of thousands of lawsuits seeking to hold drugmakers responsible for fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic hinges in part on a thorny legal question: Can a company can use a bankruptcy to stop lawsuits from cities and...
Jun 27 2019 // A Maryland woman who says a tram dragged her along the Ocean City boardwalk is suing the popular vacation town for negligence.Mona and Gregory Jones are seeking $75,000 in response to the September 2017 accident. Court...
Jun 14 2019 // Frederick Mutual, a Frederick, Md.-based insurance company, has promoted Jill Showalter to vice president and chief insurance operations officer.Showalter initially joined Frederick Mutual on October 2, 2017, as its new...
Jun 4 2019 // The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ruled that Amazon.com Inc. is not responsible under Maryland law for products liability claims due to a defective product purchased on its website from a...
Jun 3 2019 // The National Weather Service says a tornado touched down in Howard County, Maryland.The Baltimore Sun reported Friday that weather service meteorologists plan to survey the area to assess the damage. There were reports of...
May 16 2019 // A Maryland man pleaded guilty Tuesday to embezzling up to $1.5 million in upscale wine from customers who paid him to store the bottles, which he sold without their knowledge.A plea agreement calls for William Lamont...
May 7 2019 // Rescue workers searched for survivors Saturday after a helicopter with two people aboard crashed into the Chesapeake Bay.The helicopter crashed into the water about a half-mile off Bloody Point, on the southern end of Kent...
Apr 25 2019 // A gas company’s faulty equipment is the most likely cause of an explosion at a suburban Maryland apartment complex that killed seven people in 2016, according to federal report issued Tuesday.The explosion and fire...
Apr 19 2019 // The bill that turned Illinois into the focal point of a bitter debate over car-sharing last year started as a proposal about what happens when a rental car is stolen. The legislation, which would allow rental companies to...
Apr 9 2019 // The Maryland Insurance Administration has announced that the Maryland State Senate voted to confirm Al Redmer Jr. for another term as Maryland’s Insurance Commissioner, where he will oversee the independent...
Mar 27 2019 // Coface, a global credit insurer, has appointed Paul C. Haigley III as its vice president of broker and financial institutions relationship management in the U.S., based in the firm’s Maryland office.In this new role,...
Mar 19 2019 // State Farm Insurance Companies will cut its rates in Maryland for the second time in two years.As a result, its overall personal auto rate will drop by 1.4 percent. The total state-wide expected impact for State Farm by...
Mar 18 2019 // California, a bellwether state in many ways, rang in 2019 with a regulation banning the use of gender in auto insurance underwriting and rating. Prior to this regulation, insurers used gender in California for more than 30...
Mar 11 2019 // Hub International Limited has acquired The Insurance Exchange Inc.Based in Rockville, Md., The Insurance Exchange is an independent insurance agency that provides employee benefits consulting, commercial property and...
Mar 5 2019 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, has acquired Employee Benefits Group Inc. (EBG), a Bethesda, Md.-based independent insurance agency specializing in employee benefits and...
Feb 28 2019 // A Baltimore, Md., jury has awarded around $2 million to a man who has permanent brain damage from being exposed to lead paint as a child.The Daily Record reports a jury on Friday awarded 24-year-old Savon Johnson $1.1...
Feb 12 2019 // Federal officials are investigating after a railroad worker was killed at a Baltimore, Md., railyard. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Keith Holloway said by telephone that a Norfolk Southern worker was...
Feb 1 2019 // The Maryland Insurance Administration has settled a lawsuit over gender-based pay discrimination.News outlets report the agency will pay nearly $37,000 to three female fraud investigators who say they were paid less than...
Jan 24 2019 // Independent insurance agency Ensurise LLC has merged with the property and casualty insurance brokerage operations of Reese, Yeatman & Associates Inc.Founded more than 40 years ago by Michael G. Reese Sr., Reese...