All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 18 2015 // Some 140 vehicle fires, more than a dozen structural fires and nearly 200 arrests were reported in the wake of Baltimore riots that shook the city in late April. And more than 200 businesses were damaged during the riots,...
May 13 2015 // The Brethren Mutual Insurance Company in Hagerstown, Maryland, announced the following new hires and promotions.Jeff Borkowski joined Brethren Mutual as vice president of underwriting and marketing. He oversees the...
May 11 2015 // The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) issued a data call for property/casualty insurers, the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF), the Joint Insurance Association (JIA), and surplus lines brokers in the state to...
May 6 2015 // Some 140 vehicle fires, more than a dozen structural fires and nearly 200 arrests were reported in wake of the Baltimore riots that shook the city last week. And more than 200 businesses were damaged during the riots,...
May 4 2015 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against the Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA), alleging that Maryland’s insurance regulatory agency paid its women investigators and...
May 1 2015 // Richard Sung Kang’s American dream came crashing down in a shower of broken glass.His West Baltimore liquor store and bar, the Oxford Tavern, was hit by looters during a riot over the police-involved death of...
Apr 23 2015 // Matthew Kletzli Specialty underwriting manager Victor O. Schinnerer & Company hired Matthew Kletzli as senior vice president and Management Liability Practice leader. Kletzli will be based in the firm’s Chevy...
Apr 20 2015 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against the Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA), alleging that Maryland’s insurance regulatory agency paid its women investigators and...
Apr 16 2015 // An eleventh-hour bill in Maryland addressing the regulation of rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft is being hailed by stakeholders on both sides of the meter.In the waning hours of the Maryland legislative session on...
Apr 14 2015 // Texas doesn’t have the worst score in a recent ranking of state building code systems but it’s pretty close to the bottom, according to a national organization committed to improving the ability of properties...
Apr 10 2015 // Authorities announced that a Hagerstown, Maryland, woman pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Washington County to one count of felony insurance fraud having a value of $300 or more.Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh...
Apr 6 2015 // The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) said “crash and buy” auto insurance schemes are a growing trend in the state. When an uninsured driver crashes, buys insurance, then claims the accident happened...
Apr 3 2015 // Maryland State Police are cracking down on distracted driving this month.During April, the agency says that troopers from all 22 barracks statewide will conduct additional patrols to identify distracted drivers. They say...
Mar 31 2015 // Maryland misallocated $28.4 million in federal money for its flawed health care exchange and should pay the money back, according to a federal audit released on March 27.The audit marked the first time the inspector...
Mar 26 2015 // Legislation that limits when and how fracking could take place in Maryland passed Tuesday in both chambers of the state legislature.Senators voted 29-17 for a bill that holds drilling companies strictly liable for injuries...
Mar 26 2015 // Maryland officials say traffic deaths have hit a 66-year low in the state.Transportation officials said at a news conference Tuesday that traffic deaths in Maryland fell to 442 last year. That’s the lowest amount of...
Mar 24 2015 // The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) said “crash and buy” auto insurance schemes are a growing trend in the state.When an uninsured driver crashes, buys insurance, then claims the accident happened after...
Mar 23 2015 // Maryland senators on March 20 showed signs of cooperation on the topic of fracking, adopting two amendments to a bill opponents worried was another way of banning the natural gas drilling method.The amendments to the bill...
Mar 23 2015 // Four health insurance companies paid a combined $280,000 in fines to the Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) for selling unapproved health insurance plans to college students in Maryland, regulators announced on March...
Mar 19 2015 // GEICO is now offering its ridesharing insurance product to Uber (UberX and UberXL), Lyft, Sidecar and other services to approved drivers in Maryland, in addition to Virginia.The product, which replaces the driver’s...