All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 24 2017 // A fire at a large apartment building in suburban Maryland has displaced as many as 1,500 people. Fire officials said damage to the building was estimated at $1 million.The Washington Post reported that the Saturday morning...
Oct 3 2017 // Maryland is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to act on a petition requiring power plants in five upwind states to reduce pollution, the state’s attorney general and an official in Gov. Larry...
Sep 11 2017 // In Maryland, which historically has ducked many of the worst storms of the last 50 years, the question is increasingly not if, but when the next big one will strike. And while some believe the state has often been spared...
Sep 11 2017 // B.F. Saul Insurance, a Bethesda, Md.-based regional insurance brokerage and risk advisory firm, announced that Jason Jones has joined the firm as president.Jones will oversee an expansion of the company’s platform...
Sep 8 2017 // Membership of the independent insurance agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania recently held elections for volunteer and leadership positions, with terms that began Sept. 1.Larry Wilson of S.T....
Aug 22 2017 // Some library workers in Maryland are learning how to administer an opioid overdose antidote.The Baltimore Sun reports that library systems in Harford, Carroll and Anne Arundel counties have begun offering training to staff...
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...