All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 2 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich has called on the legislature to pass a medical malpractice reform bill, a day after the state’s largest medical malpractice insurer filed for a 41 percent rate increase in malpractice...
Jun 30 2004 // Maryland medical malpractice insurer, GE Medical Protective Co., has obtained approval for a 59.6 percent rate increase on its medical professional liability policies, slightly less than it had requested. GE Medical had...
Jun 25 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, Jr., announced the creation of the Governor’s Task Force on Medical Malpractice and Health Care Access and named the Honorable Raymond Thieme chairman.Gov. Ehrlich has directed the task...
Jun 21 2004 // Anthony A. Kubera has joined Russell Bond & Co. Inc. in Buffalo, N.Y., as director of business development. He brings with him over 30 years of experience in underwriting, management and marketing. Kubera began his...
Jun 17 2004 // Maryland doctors, insurers and lawmakers are working to contain the skyrocketing cost of medical malpractice insurance, which medical professionals say is driving some doctors out of business and leaving residents without...
Jun 10 2004 // Timothy K. Kovac has joined the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) as director of business and compliance affairs. Kovac, an attorney, previously served as a supervising analyst with the American...
Jun 3 2004 // The fourth consecutive Maryland Workplace Safety Week, proclaimed official by the Governor’s office in 2001, begins June 13.The Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund (IWIF) sponsors Maryland Workplace Safety Week...
Apr 16 2004 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. announced settlements with 10 defendants and four other individuals of an antitrust lawsuit that alleged that stamp dealers conspired for a period of nearly 20 years to rig...
Apr 15 2004 // Thomas DiBiagio, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Ozzie Clay, 61, of Silver Spring, Md., with mail fraud, wire fraud, bankruptcy...
Apr 12 2004 // The Circuit Court For Baltimore City, Maryland, at the request of Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr., and with the consent of the company’s board of directors, has entered an order to rehabilitate...
Apr 5 2004 // The U.S. Census Bureau’s Census 2000 estimated the population of the State of Maryland at 5,296,486. Approximately 84% of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 31% had earned a bachelor’s...
Apr 5 2004 // The Protector Group Insurance Agency of Worcester, Mass., has three new additions to its management staff. Grace H. Marrano is the new employee benefits manager. She is responsible for managing employee benefits account...
Apr 5 2004 // As the 2004 Maryland legislative session draws to a close, a myriad of property/casualty insurance bills reportedly benefiting consumers in providing disaster relief and fair underwriting and rating practices are...
Apr 1 2004 // The former head of the Maryland’s workers’ compensation fund has been offered the job to run North Dakota’s insurance program. Thomas Cleary was offered the position to become the new executive...
Mar 30 2004 // Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. yesterday signed into law emergency legislation to provide housing relief for Maryland victims of Hurricane Isabel.The legislation establishes a new emergency housing program, Hurricane...
Mar 30 2004 // Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) testified at a Senate Committee hearing about the problems many Marylanders experienced with National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in the aftermath of Hurricane Isabel. The Senate...
Mar 23 2004 // On Tuesday, the Maryland Citizens for Asbestos Reform (MCAR) urged the House Judiciary Committee to favorably consider House Bill 1346.The bill would amend the cap on the state’s non-economic damages law to establish...
Mar 22 2004 // Driven by complaints from victims of Hurricane Isabel, Maryland insurance officials have called for changes in the way the nation’s flood insurance program is run.“We have seen first hand the loss of homes,...
Mar 18 2004 // Maryland’s insurance commissioner has forwarded dozens of complaints from Tropical Storm Isabel victims to the head of the National Flood Insurance Program, and both men said the agency will review those files and...
Mar 15 2004 // Maryland’s Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund announced the results of a recent survey, which gave the organization high marks for its services, especially from agents and brokers, 97 percent of whom said they...