Latest Maryland Headlines

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Medical Mutual Returning $100M to Maryland, Local Physicians

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....

Maryland Names Sammis Deputy Insurance Commissioner

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...

Md.-Pa.-Del. Agents Group Highlights Delaware Merger, Elects Officers

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...

Md. Workplace Fatalities Rises in 2006

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...

Maryland Malpractice Insurer Told Its $69 Million Dividend Belongs to State

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...

Md. Task Forces Hears From Industry on Need for Stronger Structures

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...

Maryland’s Shore Bancshares Acquires Marine Insurance Agency, Wholesaler

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...

Maryland Jury Awards $4 Million in Boy’s Drowning at Country Club

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...

News Currents

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...

From the Big Apple to the Corn State

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,...

Tyler named Maryland commissioner

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...

Md. Insurer Says It No Longer Needs Malpractice Premium Subsidy

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...

Maryland Puts Hold on $68 Million Medical Mutual Dividend

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...

Lawsuits Against Restaurants at Center of Md. Debate Over Disabilities Act

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...

Maryland Officials to Explain Good Faith P/C Damage Filings

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...

Insurer Doesn’t Have to Pay for Miss. Pastor’s Sex Charge Defense

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...

Md. Gov. O’Malley Names Tyler as Insurance Commissioner

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...

Maryland’s IWIF Promotes Beck to CFO

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...

Maryland Man Who Lost Family in Fire Sues Over Lack of Smoke Alarms

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...

People

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...