All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 5 2007 // The Food and Drug Administration says consumers should avoid eating raw oysters harvested from San Antonio Bay in Texas because more than two dozen people in Maryland became ill last month.The FDA said 25 people developed...
Mar 5 2007 // A potentially far-reaching ruling by the Maryland Court of Appeals reinstates a class action suit against several U.S. automakers even though the plaintiffs were not injured by allegedly defective seat-backs.Plaintiffs...
Feb 26 2007 // Alarmed that homeowners on Maryland’s coasts may one day be cut off from home insurance, state lawmakers are mulling new rules prohibiting insurers from pulling out of areas they deem risky.But insurers met with...
Feb 26 2007 // Brady in court“At that moment I wasn’t sure what was happening, if that was normal or not normal.” New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady testifying that he watched his mentor, Charlie Weis, move in...
Feb 25 2007 // Maryland mulls how to keep property insurers on coastAlarmed that homeowners on Maryland’s coasts may one day be cut off from home insurance, state lawmakers are mulling new rules prohibiting insurers from pulling...
Feb 25 2007 // Brady in court“At that moment I wasn’t sure what was happening, if that was normal or not normal.” New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady testifying that he watched his mentor, Charlie Weis, move in...
Feb 21 2007 // Gov. Martin O’Malley nominated former Maryland Insurance Commissioner Steven Larsen to head the Public Service Commission on Friday, tapping a man with a reputation for standing up for consumers’ interests but...
Feb 15 2007 // Alarmed that homeowners on Maryland’s coasts may one day be cut off from home insurance, state lawmakers are mulling new rules prohibiting insurers from pulling out of areas they deem risky.But insurers met with...
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Feb 7 2007 // Are hackers trying to get into your computer right now?And what are they up to? A study by the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering is one of the first to quantify the near-constant rate of...
Feb 1 2007 // Maryland must comply with the federal Real ID Act, Transportation Secretary nominee John D. Porcari told the Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.The Real ID Act mandates that states verify documents proving an applicant is a...
Jan 28 2007 // Lloyd’s of London announced that Julian James, its director-worldwide markets, will be leaving at the end of April to join Lockton International.James has been responsible for all Lloyd’s commercial activities...
Jan 25 2007 // A cell phone ban for Maryland drivers has been considered — and rejected — many times by state lawmakers.However, two new plans before lawmakers have some asking if this is the year Maryland will join Washington, D.C....
Jan 22 2007 // Insurance brokerage firm Aon Corp. said last week it would lay off 550 workers at its facilities in New York, Texas and Maryland.Aon spokesman Rahsaan Johnson said the Chicago-based company was consolidating its...
Jan 18 2007 // The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has affirmed a lower court decision that federal ERISA law invalidates a Maryland law that would have required giant retailer Wal-Mart to offer a certain level of...
Jan 14 2007 // Federal prosecutors pursuing public corruption charges against former Maryland state Sen. Thomas Bromwell are trying to seize the $400,000 buyout he received when he stepped down as head of the state’s largest...
Jan 12 2007 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner R. Steven Orr has appointed Kimberly Yvette Robinson as director of government relations at the Maryland Insurance Administration. Robinson succeeds Brett Lininger who resigned the agency in...
Jan 2 2007 // Outgoing Attorney General Joseph Curran said he would be interested in temporarily heading the Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund while the agency’s board looks for a permanent president.Former state Sen. Thomas...
Dec 28 2006 // Former Maryland state Sen. Thomas Bromwell has agreed to step down at the end of the year as head of the Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund under a separation agreement announced by the organization’s board of...
Dec 25 2006 // From Maine to Virginia, agents and adjusters helped property owners dig out from damaging floods. High waters seemed to hit a new state every week. Meanwhile, these same agents had to worry about whether their income was...