All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 22 2004 // Days after Gov. Robert Ehrlich announced he had reached an agreement with top legislative leaders to call a special session of the legislature to work on medical malpractice insurance reform, details of the agreement...
Dec 20 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich on Friday called for a special legislative session after Christmas to deal with the “most important issue in the state of Maryland” — medical malpractice insurance.The...
Dec 20 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s failure to provide a source of funds needed to underwrite malpractice insurance premiums makes a special session of the legislature unlikely, according to Senate President Thomas V....
Dec 20 2004 // Leaving aside the insurance brokerage compensation investigations, the World Trade Center trial, the St. Paul-Travelers merger and the UnumProvident settlement, all of which have their roots in this region but grew to...
Dec 16 2004 // National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Ellen Engleman Conners will speak to Washington, D.C. area parents about teen driving safety at a town hall meeting on Thursday, Dec. 16, at 6 p.m.“In Maryland, teen...
Dec 8 2004 // Investigators suspect arson in at least four of the fires that destroyed a dozen homes and burned several others in Indian Head, a posh Maryland subdivision under construction near a nature preserve, and the FBI said it...
Dec 8 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s failure to provide a source of funds needed to underwrite malpractice insurance premiums makes a special session of the legislature unlikely, according to Senate President Thomas V....
Dec 6 2004 // Having low risk doctors subsidize premiums for higher risk doctors, establishing state courts exclusively for health matters, abolishing the state’s arbitration office, licensing life care planners, restricting...
Dec 6 2004 // Gov. Robert Ehrlich, who submitted medical malpractice reform legislation more than a month ago, has received a final report from a task force he created to recommend solutions to the insurance crisis.The report contains...
Dec 2 2004 // Sandy Spring Bank, a subsidiary of Sandy Spring Bancorp, announced that Sandy Spring Insurance Corporation has reached an agreement to acquire certain assets & liabilities of Wolfe & Reichelt Insurance Agency,...
Nov 19 2004 // The head of a Maryland Senate committee developing legislation to deal with rising medical malpractice premiums said the panel should finalize its proposal at its next meeting in two weeks, and doesn’t think a...
Nov 17 2004 // A hospital industry backed study indicates that Maryland’s medical liability environment that is costing medical professionals more and more could end up costing as many as 3,000 jobs by 2005.“The effects of...
Nov 16 2004 // In what state legislators call a looming medical malpractice insurance crisis, the debate has focused on trial lawyers and incompetent doctors.Less attention has been paid to the Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society...
Nov 11 2004 // In light of what his agency says was the success of an initial round of regional meetings throughout various parts of the state, Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr., announced that the Maryland Insurance...
Nov 1 2004 // Doctors at several Maryland hospitals who are fed up with rising medical malpractice insurance costs are considering doing without the coverage, or “going bare.”The strategy, used by thousands of Florida...
Oct 28 2004 // Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller this week blasted Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s latest medical malpractice plan as “a work of fiction” and “a completely different bill” from the one he, the...
Oct 27 2004 // Legislation that would offer doctors immediate relief from increases in malpractice insurance premiums and hold the line on future rate hikes was presented to the Maryland General Assembly leaders this week by Gov. Robert...
Oct 25 2004 // Maryland Sen. Alex Mooney (R-Frederick) fought a ticket for running a red light last year despite film showing his car blowing through an intersection. A judge accepted proof that a car thief, not Mooney, was behind the...
Oct 25 2004 // Problems within the federal flood insurance agency have kept victims of Tropical Storm Isabel from getting adequate settlements for storm damage, according to a report by a flood insurance activist. The report, released by...
Oct 22 2004 // The Maryland Insurance Administration received an accreditation award under the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Financial Regulation Standards and Accreditation Program at the 2004 NAIC fall...