All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 17 2017 // Frederick Mutual Insurance Company (FMIC), a Frederick, Md.-based provider of insurance coverage for homeowners and businesses, has promoted Bob Pelletier from assistant vice president and claim manager to vice president...
Aug 10 2017 // The Maryland Insurance Administration has appointed Erica J. Bailey as its associate commissioner of compliance and enforcement.Bailey brings 15 years of experience to the team, including the last ten investigating...
Aug 8 2017 // Members of Chesapeake Employers Insurance’s Board of Directors elected V. Rocky Gonzalez as chairman, effective immediately. Gonzalez succeeds Charles Dankmeyer as chairman, who is now serving as a member of the...
Aug 1 2017 // A highway construction worker has died from injuries he received when he was hit by a truck. Local media report that Walter I. Gonzales-Lopez, a 56-year-old Baltimore resident, died Sunday. He and a co-worker were struck...
Jul 31 2017 // A Maryland county is hosting a disaster assistance center in response to damage from last week’s tornado.The Queen Anne’s County Department of Emergency Services opened Thursday, July 27, and will stay open...
Jul 24 2017 // Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration announced plans Thursday to sue the Environmental Protection Agency, if the agency doesn’t respond to Maryland’s request to make sure power plants in...
Jul 24 2017 // A new study has found that state reforms to control the costs of prescription drugs by targeting reimbursements for physicians dispensing them are having some effect but that physician-dispensing still accounts for a large...
Jul 12 2017 // A new study has found that state reforms to control the costs of prescription drugs by targeting reimbursements for physicians dispensing them are having some effect but that physician-dispensing still accounts for a large...
Jun 28 2017 // A former executive for a national construction company who, federal prosecutors say, stole $4.5 million from her employer and spent it on expensive cars and restaurant meals has been sentenced.Forty-six-year-old Wendy...
Jun 27 2017 // XL Catlin is continuing to expand its inland marine field operations with the recent addition of Maria Klein as a senior underwriter in Baltimore, Md.“For the last several years, we’ve been expanding our...
Jun 13 2017 // Frederick Mutual Insurance Company (FMIC), a Frederick, Md.-based provider of insurance coverage to homeowners and businesses in the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania through a network of independent agents, has promoted...
Jun 7 2017 // MD Jensvold has hired David Rhodes to manage the brokerage department for the Houston-based managing general agency and surplus lines insurance broker.Rhodes joins Jensvold from Zurich Energy & Marine where he was the...
Jun 1 2017 // Diversified Insurance Industries (DII) has announced that it is relocating to new office space in Hunt Valley, Md., on June 26.The 14,500-square-foot space is located at 307 International Circle. DII’s 75-person firm...
May 17 2017 // A bus carrying dozens of Pennsylvania eighth-graders to Washington, D.C., for a field trip overturned on Interstate 95 in northeastern Maryland on Monday, state police said. Officials said one child and one teacher were...
May 15 2017 // A former Episcopal bishop who struck and killed a cyclist in Baltimore, Md., while driving drunk will remain in prison after the Maryland Parole Commission rejected her plea for early release.Heather Cook, once the...
May 4 2017 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired Rossmann-Hurt-Hoffman Inc. (RHH). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.Based in Ellicott City, Md., RHH is a multi-lines insurance...
Apr 26 2017 // Firefighters were still dousing hot spots Tuesday after a massive fire at a seven-story apartment building under construction near the University of Maryland.News outlets reported that firefighters were working to keep the...
Apr 20 2017 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Al Redmer, Jr. has announced that more than 1,700 Marylanders have been affected by the Penn Treaty liquidation that occurred in Pennsylvania. However, the Maryland guaranty association...
Apr 19 2017 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) announced that its Executive Committee recently selected Maryland Insurance Commissioner, Al Redmer, Jr., as a board member for its non-profit affiliate, the...
Apr 7 2017 // Transportation officials in Maryland plan to move flammable materials stored under bridges after a raging fire caused part of a busy interstate to collapse in downtown Atlanta. The Maryland Department of Transportation...