All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 23 2007 // Maryland agents get notice reliefMaryland insurance agents are applauding the General Assembly for relieving them of liability in the delivery of notices about flood and homeowners insurance. The Senate and House of...
Apr 23 2007 // Doug Eden has joined Main Street America Group as senior vice president, field operations. Eden will be a member of the company’s senior management team based at its corporate headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., and...
Apr 5 2007 // The board of directors of IWIF Workers’ Compensation Insurance has appointed of Thomas Phelan, CPA, to the position of president and chief executive officer. Phelan previously served as IWIF’s executive vice...
Apr 4 2007 // Maryland insurance agents are applauding the General Assembly for relieving them of liability in the delivery of notices about flood and homeowners insurance.The Senate and House of Delegates unanimously passed companion...
Mar 28 2007 // The Public Employees Insurance Agency in West Virginia has denied two protests of its decision to award a multimillion-dollar management contract to a Maryland company.Humana Inc. and Highmark Health Insurance Co. filed...
Mar 23 2007 // West Virginia’s selection of a Maryland company to manage a new health insurance program for retired public workers is being challenged by two other companies that sought the work.The Public Employees Insurance...
Mar 22 2007 // Maryland has decided not to require home insurers to cover all areas of the state, even coastal areas.The state Senate was considering a bill to require the insurance after state’s second-largest home insurer —...
Mar 19 2007 // Brett Lininger, formerly director of government relations for the Maryland Insurance Administration, has left that state agency to form his own government relations firm called Lininger & Associates. His office is...
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...