All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Mar 12 2015 // Maryland’s new insurance commissioner, Al Redmer, Jr., announced the sale of his agency Redmer Insurance Group LLC to two of the firm’s employees, Partner and Principal Agent Liz Mika and Partner Ann Ansel....
Mar 10 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 last...
Mar 4 2015 // The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) announced that Al Redmer, Jr. took the oath of office on Feb. 27 to serve as Maryland’s insurance commissioner. Redmer succeeds Therese M. Goldsmith, who stepped down from...
Feb 23 2015 // For years, we’ve listened to those who beat the drum to maintain minimum liability insurance limits that have been in place for decades. They frame their viewpoint as pro-consumer, and on its surface, their message...
Feb 6 2015 // When it comes to El Nino, 2014-15 may be the years that launched a thousand academic papers.Since last March, forecasters have said an El Nino was on the way. The only trouble is, it hasn’t arrived. Call it the...
Feb 5 2015 // A Maryland man who pleaded guilty to plotting to burn down his house to collect insurance proceeds has been sentenced to four years in prison.Forty-nine-year-old Saleh Fakhoury of Lutherville, Maryland, was also ordered to...
Jan 30 2015 // An electrical fire that spread to a 15-foot Christmas tree prompted a blaze that reduced a 16,000-square-foot riverfront mansion near Maryland’s capital to ruins, killing a couple and four of their young...
Jan 12 2015 // Maryland’s Republican Gov.-elect Larry Hogan has named Al Redmer, Jr. to be the state’s insurance commissioner.Maryland’s current insurance commissioner, Therese M. Goldsmith, previously announced that...
Dec 31 2014 // Al Redmer, Jr. Maryland’s Republican Gov.-elect Larry Hogan has named Al Redmer, Jr. to be the state’s insurance commissioner. Hogan made the announcement Tuesday at a press conference. Redmer held...
Dec 28 2014 // Prince George’s County, Maryland, fire officials went door-to-door in the Capitol Heights and Bowie areas to make sure families have working smoke alarms and an escape plan in the event of a fire.Their efforts on...
Dec 24 2014 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, the largest workers’ compensation insurance company in Maryland, announced that insurance ratings agency A.M. Best Co. has reaffirmed a financial strength rating of A-...
Dec 23 2014 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Therese M. GoldsmithMaryland Insurance Commissioner Therese M. Goldsmith — who was appointed by Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley in 2011 for a four-year term that ends on May 31,...
Dec 18 2014 // Reaction to industry-wide price optimization allegations from a consumer group known to call out insurers has been somewhat critical yet guarded – however it appears regulators may already be starting to look into the...
Dec 17 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. today announced the acquisition of Independent Benefit Services Inc. (iBEN) located in Rockville, Maryland. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1989, iBEN provides...