All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 15 2006 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc., faced with a new Maryland law designed to pressure the retail chain into spending more money on health insurance for its employees, is considering a challenge to the groundbreaking legislation.Sarah...
Jan 13 2006 // Maryland became the first state to pass legislation requiring Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. to spend a minimum amount on health care for its employees or pay the difference in taxes as the Democrat-controlled legislature overrode...
Jan 6 2006 // Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., has selected R. Steven Orr to serve as Maryland Insurance Commissioner. He succeeds Alfred W. Redmer, who resigned in October 2005 to join the private sector.Orr, 53, most recently...
Jan 5 2006 // A proposed Maryland law that attempts to pressure Wal-Mart to provide better health care benefits for its employees would violate federal law, the Maryland Chamber of Commerce said.The business group issued a report just...
Dec 30 2005 // From Maine to Virginia, many of the insurance headlines in 2005 dealt with compensation and reinsurance probes, just as they did across the country, casting the industry’s reputation in a bad light.But much of the...
Dec 20 2005 // When Maryland’s physician quality board comes up for review during the next legislative session, some are calling for tougher measures to deal with doctors who are the subject of multiple complaints.Until 2003, state...
Dec 8 2005 // How governments can best prevent, prepare and respond to mass casualties, whether from natural events such as Hurricane Katrina or a terror attack, is the mission of a new center led by Johns Hopkins University.A $15...
Nov 25 2005 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) has named David M. Eppstein Director of State Affairs. In his new position, he will be working with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners...
Nov 23 2005 // The widow of a Clinton, Md. postal worker who died after being exposed to anthrax in 2001 is suing the hospital that treated him, claiming it ignored signs that he suffered from the effects of the deadly spores until it...
Nov 22 2005 // Maryland’s second-highest court has reversed a $3 million jury verdict won by a former paper mill worker who alleged his lung cancer stemmed from asbestos exposure at the plant in western Maryland.The Court of...
Nov 12 2005 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr., announced the conviction of a seven year veteran of the Prince George’s County Police Department for insurance fraud.Jermaine Ayala, 30, of Lanham, received an 18...
Oct 25 2005 // A number of Mid-Atlantic states are forming what they are calling the All Hazards Consortium to increase preparedness by enabling emergency management participants to share strategies and integrate planning.The AHC, a...
Oct 24 2005 // The Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund has prevailed over a challenge to its most recent 52.8 percent rate increase by sedan owners.The Maryland Insurance Administration upheld the increase in an order signed by Acting...
Oct 23 2005 // Former State Sen. Thomas Bromwell will retain his position as president and chief executive officer of Maryland’s largest workers’ compensation insurer despite his indictment in an alleged racketeering scheme...
Oct 20 2005 // A once-powerful former Maryland state senator and head of the state’s largest workers’ compensation provider was indicted this week on federal charges of influence-peddling in exchange for free contracting work...
Oct 18 2005 // The Maryland Insurance Administration is convening its Auto Insurance Task Force to Study Rates in Urban Areas today, Oct. 18, at Prince George’s Community College, Largo Student Center, Conference Room 2. The task...
Oct 18 2005 // Insurance companies are urging Maryland officials looking for ways to reduce urban auto insurance rates to focus on curbing the underlying costs, reducing the required benefits package and encouraging insurers to expand in...
Oct 12 2005 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer is leaving his state job to become chief executive officer of Coventry Health Care, a Delaware-based health insurance company.“It’s just a perfect...
Sep 15 2005 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr. attempted to reassure consumers today by telling them that they should not fear dramatic changes to the insurance market or insurance premiums in Maryland in the wake...
Sep 13 2005 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. announced that two former Maryland Insurance Administration Agent Enforcement Officers, William E. Unkle and Joseph E. Wolfe, pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the...