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Maryland’s Frederick Mutual Insurance Company Promotes Pelletier

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...

Maryland Insurance Administration Names Associate Commissioner of Compliance

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...

Maryland’s Chesapeake Employers Elects Gonzalez as Board Chairman

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...

Maryland Highway Construction Worker Dies from Injuries

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...

Maryland County to Host Disaster Assistance Center

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...

Maryland Plans Lawsuit Against EPA Under Clean Air Act

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...

Study: Reforms Targeting Physician-Dispensed Drugs Have Mixed Results

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...

States See Mixed Results from Reforms Targeting Physician-Dispensed Drugs: WCRI

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...

Ex-Executive in Maryland Sentenced for Stealing $4.5M from Firm

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...

XL Catlin Expands Inland Marine Business, Hires Klein in Maryland

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...

Maryland’s Frederick Mutual Insurance Company Promotes Roso

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...

Insurance Broker MD Jensvold Adds Zurich’s Rhodes in Houston

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...

Diversified Insurance Industries is Relocating to New Office Space in Maryland

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...

Bus Carrying 26 Pennsylvania Students on Field Trip to D.C. Overturns on I-95

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...

Driving Drunk: Bishop Who Killed Cyclist in Maryland is Denied Parole

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...

Hub International Limited Acquires Maryland’s Rossmann-Hurt-Hoffman

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...

Massive Maryland Fire Leads to Estimated $39M Loss

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...

Maryland Policyholders Affected by Penn Treaty, American Network Liquidation

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...

Maryland Insurance Commissioner Named to Board of Directors of the NIPR

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...

Maryland to Move Flammable Materials Stored Under Bridges

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...