All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 7 2006 // M&T Insurance Agency, Inc. has acquired Hess Egan Hagerty & L’Hommedieu, Inc., a commercial insurance and surety brokerage agency based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with additional offices in Pennsylvania and...
Feb 6 2006 // Maryland’s highest court has handed a victory to the welding industry by ruling that the scope of the pollution liability exclusion in a business insurance policy does not encompass welding rod liability. In...
Feb 5 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has asked Delaware businesses to submit requests for classification changes for workers’ compensation. According to Denn, some business owners have said they have been...
Feb 2 2006 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. reported that George and Barbara Meekins of Cambridge, Maryland have been arrested after being charged with felony theft and conspiracy to commit felony insurance fraud and...
Jan 22 2006 // Maryland became the first state to pass legislation requiring retail giant 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...
Jan 22 2006 // PeopleMaryland Gov. 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...
Jan 19 2006 // On Jan. 6, Maryland’s highest court handed a victory to the welding industry by ruling that the scope of the pollution liability exclusion in a business insurance policy does not encompass welding rod liability.In...
Jan 18 2006 // Usually snow and ice are the culprits this time of year in the Northeast for problems with the weather.Wednesday, though, proved to be Mother Nature offering a different problem for residents. Winds, in some cases...
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...