All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 20 2004 // Maryland patients are being encouraged by their doctors to get involved in the political debate over rising medical malpractice premiums. Doctors across Maryland have begun handing out to their patients preprinted...
Sep 20 2004 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer Jr., announced that the Maryland Insurance Administration would host an initial round of eight informational meetings at four locations in various regions throughout the...
Sep 15 2004 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr. has approved a 33 percent medical malpractice rate increase for Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland and its subsidiary, Professionals Advocate...
Sep 8 2004 // Announcing its entrance into the Texas malpractice insurance market, Advocate, MD Insurance of the Southwest said its improved coverage options and excellent rates are proof that tort reform efforts ushered in last year...
Sep 6 2004 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr. has moved to end what his agency says is a comprehensive scheme of medical malpractice fraud aimed, particularly, at women’s clinics.Meanwhile, the state’s...
Sep 1 2004 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr., announced that the Maryland Insurance Administration will host an initial round of eight informational meetings at four locations in various regions throughout the...
Aug 27 2004 // Two new Maryland laws designed to boost pedestrian safety take effect this fall — measures that school officials hope will help protect children as schools open across the state.Under the new laws passed by the General...
Aug 20 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich is urging doctors and nurses to become “dangerous” in the fight for medical malpractice insurance reform.Speaking at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center, the governor said the...
Aug 20 2004 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr. has moved to end what his agency says is a comprehensive scheme of medical malpractice fraud aimed, particularly, at women’s clinics.Redmer issued a cease and...
Aug 16 2004 // A Glen Burnie, Maryland man whose hand was amputated in a lawn mower accident does not qualify for insurance benefits because he was drunk, a federal judge in Baltimore has ruled.U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz...
Aug 3 2004 // A Maryland appeals court has upheld a 2003 circuit court decision by maintaining that personal injury protection (PIP) waivers remain effective until withdrawn in writing. The Property Casualty Insurers Association of...
Jul 30 2004 // Maryland’s highest court has ruled that the state can be held liable for negligence if a child dies after social service workers mishandle reports of child abuse or neglect.“It is great news. The Court of...
Jul 28 2004 // State Farm Insurance confirmed it is moving to phase-out its Frederick, Md. claims and operations office as part of a reorganization that could eliminate from 400 to 500 jobs there and an equal number in field offices in...
Jul 27 2004 // Responding to a request by Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, Jr., the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has surveyed damage from July 12 & 13 floods in Cecil and Harford counties and has declared an “SBA...
Jul 27 2004 // Maryland Attorney General Joseph Curran, Jr., announced the filing of criminal insurance fraud charges against Dorothy Faye Mortimer, 61, of Waldorf, Maryland.In a forty-four (44) count criminal indictment filed in the...
Jul 23 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich has requested that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) declare a Small Business Administration Disaster due to the physical damage incurred by Cecil and Harford Counties by floods on...
Jul 19 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich called on the legislature to pass a medical malpractice reform bill after the state’s largest medical malpractice insurer filed for a 41 percent rate increase in malpractice insurance...
Jul 19 2004 // In the wake of floods in northeast Maryland, at least 80 percent of those who contacted state officials with damage complaints are not insured, state Insurance Commissioner Alfred Redmer said.Insurance officials, in visits...
Jul 16 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich this week kicked off the work of a task force he created on medical malpractice insurance with an invitation to the health care industry, insurers and trial lawyers to work together to solve...
Jul 5 2004 // Maryland doctors, insurers and lawmakers are working to contain the cost of medical malpractice insurance, which medical professionals say is driving some doctors out of business and leaving residents without access to...