All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 28 2008 // State lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund, the insurer of last resort for many motorists, to accept installment payments like private companies.Advocates say the...
Feb 25 2008 // Montgomery County, Md. fire officials say a two-alarm fire that started in a chicken restaurant did significant damage to a strip mall in Wheaton.Fire and Rescue Service spokesman Pete Piringer estimates that the blaze...
Feb 25 2008 // A crime victim’s assistance group will help those harmed by identity theft and fraud under a $500,000 grant announced Thursday.The Maryland Crime Victims Resource Center plans to use the money to provide direct...
Feb 21 2008 // A Lebanon, Pa., woman whose husband and 10-year-old daughter were killed by a carbon monoxide leak at an Ocean City, Maryland motel room has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against four companies.The lawsuit seeking $30...
Feb 11 2008 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler today accepted Allstate Insurance Co.’s decision to refuse new homeowners’ policies in coastal areas.Tyler said his agency’s hands were effectively tied from...
Feb 6 2008 // CBIZ Inc. announced the firm has acquired substantially all the assets of NAIS Inc. effective Feb. 1, 2008. NAIS provides innkeepers insurance programs marketed through James Wolf Insurance and Old Line Insurance. NAIS,...
Feb 1 2008 // Lawmakers in a suburban Washington, D.C. county said this week that domestic workers and their employers should be required to sign contracts to ensure the workers receive fair wages, overtime and other protections against...
Jan 28 2008 // Independent insurance agents in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania now have access to a five-component, Web-based resource created to simplify agency management.The HR Solution includes an audit survey, employee handbook...
Jan 23 2008 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s administration is expected to propose legislation this week amending the state’s 25-year-old Critical Area Law to further restrict development along the Chesapeake...
Jan 18 2008 // A former Frederick County Sheriff’s Deputy will avoid jail time for setting fire to his girlfriend’s sport utility vehicle in alleged insurance scheme. Thirty-eight-year-old Theodore Randolph Dorsey of...
Jan 16 2008 // As Maryland lawmakers look for ways to boost energy conservation, one Democrat wants a law to give rooftop solar panels legal protection. House Democratic Leader Kumar Barve of Montgomery County has proposed a measure...
Jan 11 2008 // Nineteen insurance fraud cases were adjudicated in Maryland in the last three months of 2007, resulting in nearly $450,000 in restitution ordered paid, the state’s Insurance Administration said. The prosecutions were...
Jan 8 2008 // A new study of Maryland’s physician workforce shows that the state has a growing shortage of doctors in clinical practice, and concludes it could become dire for patients, especially those in need of medical...
Jan 3 2008 // Maryland fire marshals say they’re still investigating the burning of a vacant house in Washington County worth $750,000.Fire marshal Ed Ernst told The (Hagerstown) Herald-Mail Monday morning that they still...
Jan 3 2008 // Frederick County, Md. Commissioner Charles Jenkins is calling for penalties for local businesses that hire illegal immigrants.He is talking to the county attorney about a plan to audit local businesses that receive...
Dec 31 2007 // Maryland’s Howard County has pulled the plug on its earthquake hotline.County Fire Department Captain Ryan Miller says the county now has other ways for residents to report and receive information during a disaster....
Dec 31 2007 // New leaders tackled old issues and the region battled fire and rain.1. No day at the beach Insurance markets for coastal properties continued to challenge insurers, agents, policymakers and property owners, despite an...
Dec 27 2007 // In more fallout from the troubled credit market, ACA Capital Holdings Inc. has agreed to let the Maryland Insurance Administration and Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler assume control of much of its bond insurance division, ACA...
Dec 23 2007 // A major medical liability insurer will return nearly $100 million to the state of Maryland and local doctors, in a deal announced by state officials. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Insurance Commissioner Ralph S....
Dec 18 2007 // Fire officials say a fire in Mill Creek, Md. has caused heavy damage at a strip shopping center on Kirkwood Highway.The fire west of Mill Creek was reported shortly after midnight Monday in the 5900 block of Kirkwood...