All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 17 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....
Nov 7 2007 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler has appointed Elizabeth Sammis as deputy insurance commissioner. Sammis is currently vice president for Government Affairs, Mid-Atlantic Region, for United Healthcare, and she...
Oct 26 2007 // The Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group held its annual meeting Oct. 17, marking a year that included the inception of the Delaware Association of Insurance Agents & Brokers Inc. into its organization.The...
Oct 24 2007 // Statistics show the number of fatal work injuries in Maryland rose to 105 last year, an increase of 10 from the year before.The figure also represents the highest annual total since the U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Oct 9 2007 // Maryland’s largest medical malpractice insurer should return its entire $68.6 million dividend to the state, instead of the $32.5 million it has proposed as part of its exit from a subsidy program designed to lower...
Oct 4 2007 // Opportunities exist in the public and private sectors to increase the disaster resistance of homes and businesses and contribute to the overall health of Maryland’s insurance market, says Harvey Ryland, president and...
Oct 2 2007 // Shore Bancshares, Inc. , parent company of three independent community banks and two retail insurance agencies serving the Delmarva peninsula, has closed two new acquisitions including a retail agency specializing in...
Sep 27 2007 // An jury in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County has awarded the parents of a five-year-old boy who drowned at Crofton Country Club last year more than $4 million in damages.The jury found Hunt Valley-based DRD Pool...
Sep 24 2007 // Tyler named Maryland commissionerMaryland Gov. Martin O’Malley named attorney and long-time advisor Ralph S. Tyler to be the state’s insurance commissioner responsible for overseeing the regulation of...
Sep 24 2007 // From the executive office of the Greater New York Mutual Insurance Companies on Madison Avenue in the heart of New York City, Warren Heck, chairman and chief executive officer, can see Illinois.“It’s fantastic,...
Sep 24 2007 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley named attorney and long-time advisor Ralph S. Tyler to be the state’s insurance commissioner responsible for overseeing the regulation of Maryland’s $26 billion insurance...
Sep 19 2007 // Maryland’s largest medical malpractice insurer plans to leave a state premium subsidy program and return some of the money it has received, saying it no longer needs the subsidy to stabilize premiums for doctors...
Sep 14 2007 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler wants to review a large medical malpractice insurance dividend payment before it goes out.Newly-appointed Tyler said he will hold a hearing next month to review a plan by...
Sep 6 2007 // Jeri Wasco, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, visited a Hyattsville, Maryland shopping center recently and found curb ramps that were too steep and no elevators going to the second floor.She filed a federal...
Sep 6 2007 // The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) will conduct a workshop to explain how it will implement newly enacted legislation that authorizes the award of enhanced damages against property and casualty insurance companies...
Sep 6 2007 // State Farm Insurance Co. does not have to pay to defend the Rev. Jeffery Stallworth of Jackson, Miss., from a civil lawsuit filed by a Maryland woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2001 in her home, a...
Sep 6 2007 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley this morning named attorney and long-time advisor Ralph S. Tyler to be the state’s insurance commissioner responsible for overseeing the regulation of Maryland’s $26 billion...
Aug 24 2007 // IWIF Workers’ Compensation Insurance in Maryland has promoted Paige Beck to the position of executive vice president and chief financial officer. In this position, Beck oversees all financial activities for the...
Aug 22 2007 // Alleging that a Baltimore apartment building’s management failed to install smoke detectors in the their where his fiancee and child died in a fire, a man has sued the manager for $52.3 million.The suit was filed in...
Aug 6 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson takes over the reins of PCI...