All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 3 2014 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Jan. 30 signed into law a measure to help people get medical insurance retroactive to Jan. 1, if computer problems with Maryland’s health exchange prevented them from signing up...
Jan 28 2014 // Maryland’s House of Delegates will likely vote Tuesday on a plan to help residents who have struggled with the state’s health insurance exchange online.The bill would let customers sign up for retroactive...
Jan 23 2014 // The Maryland Senate has passed a measure to provide health insurance for people who tried to enroll online in the state’s health exchange, but couldn’t due to computer problems.The Senate voted 38-8 for the...
Jan 13 2014 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is acknowledging a troubled start for Maryland’s online health insurance exchange, but he predicted on Jan. 12 that the state will still meet its enrollment goal by the end of...
Jan 6 2014 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s administration will submit emergency legislation at the start of Maryland’s legislative session this week aimed at insuring people who thought they had successfully...
Jan 6 2014 // Houston-based managing general agency and program manager, MD Jensvold, announced that Teri Brinson and Sarah Guzzetta have been named executive vice presidents and corporate officers.Brinson has been in the insurance...
Dec 9 2013 // Fourteen states and the District of Columbia told the federal government they could run their own health insurance exchanges, but three people leading their states’ exchanges have now left following problem-plagued...
Dec 2 2013 // Scientists at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory have a new project in the works that aims to better predict the intensity of storm surges on the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay...
Nov 25 2013 // MidAtlantic Farm Credit, an agricultural lending cooperative, recently hired Rachel Melvin as a crop insurance specialist. Melvin will be based out of the organization’s office in Denton, Maryland.In her new role,...
Nov 19 2013 // Plans to mandate liability coverage for U.S. gun owners after last year’s school shooting in Connecticut have languished as opponents attack the proposals by comparing them to President Barack Obama’s health...
Nov 11 2013 // The fall marks a new administrative year for Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The following directors have been...
Nov 4 2013 // Chevy Chase, Md.-based underwriting manager Victor O. Schinnerer & Company Inc. has named Steve Cohen as senior underwriting manager for its management liability programs. In his new role, Cohen will oversee the...
Nov 1 2013 // Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance and the insurer of last resort adopted a new name and a new corporate structure in October. The 99-year-old Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund...
Oct 28 2013 // The mountain dwellers of far western Maryland know a lot about snow, but a crippling blizzard spawned last year by Superstorm Sandy taught them a painful lesson in emergency preparedness.Scattershot planning and outdated...
Oct 24 2013 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, formerly IWIF, recently announced that Joanne Dreher has been promoted to director of underwriting.Joanne DreherIn this new position, Dreher is responsible for the operational...
Oct 8 2013 // USI Insurance Services announced the closing of the acquisition of Richard J. Princinsky & Associates Inc., located in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1976, Richard J....
Oct 7 2013 // On Oct. 1, the Injured Worker’s Insurance Fund (IWIF), Maryland’s largest provider of workers’ compensation insurance, launched a new name and corporate structure as a private, not-for-profit company.As a...
Oct 4 2013 // Americans trying to find out how much health coverage will cost under Obamacare endured a third day of limited access to new online health insurance exchanges on Thursday, leading to a growing backlog of people waiting to...
Oct 3 2013 // The Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF) — the auto insurance market of last resort in Maryland — said its Installment Payment Plan went online on Oct. 1. This new option, which was passed and signed into law...
Oct 1 2013 // The Obamacare insurance exchanges struggled to handle a flood of consumer interest that closed the U.S. website for much of the day, and caused start up delays for most of the marketplaces run by the states.In New York,...