All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 22 2004 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer has welcomed the Greater New York (GNY) Insurance Companies to the Maryland. Warren W. Heck, GNY’s chairman and chief exexcutive fofficer announced the companies...
Oct 18 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich and top legislative leaders emerged from a meeting in the governor’s mansion last Thursday, holding out hope of a special legislative session next month to deal with a medical malpractice...
Oct 11 2004 // Physicians in northwest Maryland plan to halt non-emergency surgeries for at least two weeks to protest a 33 percent increase in malpractice premiums. The Maryland Insurance Administration approved the increase for 2005...
Oct 6 2004 // Four Washington County, Maryland doctors have agreed to an indefinite delay of their plan to halt non-emergency surgery to protest a 33 percent increase in medical malpractice insurance premiums.After a meeting with Gov....
Oct 6 2004 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. announced the filing of felony insurance fraud, felony theft and conspiracy charges against Michael Horner, former owner of Contemporary Auto in Harford County, and four...
Oct 1 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, which...
Sep 28 2004 // Physicians in northwest Maryland plan to halt non-emergency surgeries for at least two weeks to protest a 33 percent increase in malpractice insurance premiums.The Maryland Insurance Administration on Sept. 14 approved the...
Sep 20 2004 // Members of the Arson Task Force are investigating a recent Fairfax County house fire to see if it was the work of the Washington region’s serial arsonist. Firefighters were called to a single family home in the...
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...