Latest Maryland Headlines

All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Maryland Officials Confident of Snowstorm Disaster Aid

Jan 29 2016 // Last weekend’s brutal snowstorm pummeled Maryland from the Atlantic coast to the West Virginia border, costing government agencies much more than the minimum requirement for a federal disaster declaration, the...

Maryland Urges Insurers to Accommodate Consumers Impacted by Blizzard

Jan 27 2016 // The Maryland Insurance Administration issued a bulletin encouraging insurance companies and premium finance companies to accommodate consumers who were impacted by last weekend’s blizzard.Bulletin 16-05 (Re:...

Snowy East Coast Digs Out After Massive Weekend Blizzard

Jan 25 2016 // Millions of Americans started digging themselves out Sunday after a mammoth blizzard with hurricane-force winds and record-setting snowfall brought much of the East Coast to an icy standstill.New York and Baltimore began...

Maryland AG, Lawmakers Look to Improve Structured Settlement Law

Jan 22 2016 // Maryland’s attorney general and lawmakers are looking at ways to protect the public from bad deals offered by businesses that have bought legal settlements from lead poisoning victims, such as Baltimore’s...

All Risks Hires Davis as Underwriting Manager in Maryland

Jan 15 2016 // All Risks Ltd., an independent wholesaler based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, has hired Steve Davis as underwriting manager in the National Specialty Programs unit. In this role, Davis will continue to grow the existing...

General Star Expands Architects & Engineers Program to Maryland, Virginia

Jan 15 2016 // General Star has expanded its admitted architects and engineers professional liability coverage to Maryland and Virginia. Entering the eighth year of the A&E program, Maryland and Virginia join New York, New Jersey,...

Brethren Mutual Hires Foltz as Personal Lines Underwriting Manager in Maryland

Dec 22 2015 // Kimberly Foltz The Brethren Mutual Insurance Company in Hagerstown, Maryland, has hired Kimberly Foltz as Personal Lines underwriting manager. Foltz brings 26 years of insurance experience in property/casualty marketing...

Maryland Commissioner to Meet With Local Farmers to Discuss P/C Insurance

Dec 21 2015 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Al Redmer, Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Joe Bartenfelder will hold a joint meeting to promote awareness of insurance products available to the state’s agricultural community.The...

People – East

Dec 21 2015 // Markel Corp. in Richmond, Virginia, reported that Thomas S. Gayner, president and chief investment officer, and Richard R. Whitt III, president and co-chief operating officer, will serve as co-chief executive officers of...

Former Insurance Exec Gets 37 Years for $100M Premium Fraud in Maryland

Dec 13 2015 // A Maryland businessman who prosecutors say stole more than $100 million in insurance premiums to live a life of luxury has been sentenced to 37 years in prison.Forty-year-old Jeffrey Brian Cohen of Reisterstown, Maryland,...

Maryland Issues Bulletin on Commercial Policy Termination Notices

Dec 7 2015 // Property/casualty insurers writing commercial policies in Maryland are no longer required to file the cancellation or nonrewal notices they send out to insureds for approval, the Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA)...

Morrow Joins Maryland Insurance Administration as Associate Commissioner

Nov 24 2015 // Robert D. Morrow, Jr. Maryland Insurance Commissioner Al Redmer, Jr. announced Tuesday the appointment of Robert D. Morrow, Jr. as the state’s associate insurance commissioner for Hearings. As associate commissioner,...

Maryland Issues Bulletin on Commercial Policy Cancellation Notices

Nov 19 2015 // Property/casualty insurers writing commercial policies in Maryland are no longer required to file for approval the cancellation or nonrewal notices they send out to insureds, the Maryland Insurance Administration announced...

People – East

Nov 16 2015 // The Hilb Group, a middle market insurance agency based in Richmond, Virginia, hired David Hobbs as president and chief operating officer.The title of president was previously held by Chief Executive Officer Robert Hilb and...

Maryland’s Chesapeake Employers Promotes 3 to Vice President

Nov 4 2015 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance, announced the following promotions:Carmine D’Alessandro was promoted to vice president of Legal...

Insurance Agents & Brokers in Penn. Announces Newly Elected Directors

Oct 29 2015 // The fall marks a new administrative year for Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The...

AssuredPartners Acquires Moscker Insurance Agency in Maryland

Oct 6 2015 // AssuredPartners Inc. announced that its subsidiary, AssuredPartners of New Jersey, has acquired Moscker Insurance Agency Inc. in Severna Park, Maryland. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Moscker Insurance Agency...

People – East

Oct 5 2015 // Specialty program manager Victor O. Schinnerer & Company Inc. promoted Brian Hanuschak to president. Hanuschak will be based in the firm’s Chevy Chase, Maryland, headquarters and report to Rob Byler, CEO of The...

Maryland Welcomes 7 New Insurers

Oct 5 2015 // The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) announced on Sept. 14 that seven new insurance companies have been approved to offer workers’ compensation and life insurance products in Maryland.“Our goal is to...

Former Maryland Commissioner Goldsmith Joins Law Firm Hogan Lovells

Sep 22 2015 // Law firm Hogan Lovells announced that former Maryland Insurance Commissioner Therese Goldsmith has joined firm’s Health practice and the Insurance Industry sector group as a partner in the Baltimore office.Goldsmith...