All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 30 2003 // Robert Mister, a Leonardtown, Maryland carpenter, pleaded guilty to insurance fraud when he admitted to unlawfully collecting workers’ compensation insurance benefits from IWIF, Maryland’s largest...
May 20 2003 // A report in The Baltimore Sun indicates that Alfred W. Redmer Jr., currently a member of the Maryland Assembly and a sales executive with Benefit Mall, a health insurance provider, has the inside track to be named as the...
Feb 21 2003 // The 2003 Maryland legislative session is at the halfway point, with a crop of insurance-related bills still working their way through the process, including legislation on no pay/no play, insurers’ use of credit,...
Dec 5 2002 // Members of two Pennsylvania independent agent associations, The Independent Insurance Agents of Pennsylvania (IIAP) and the Pennsylvania members of Professional Insurance Agents Association (PIA) of Pennsylvania, Maryland...
Nov 8 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers (AAI) pressed the Maryland Insurance Administration not to establish coverage mandate, arguing that such a mandate would destabilize the state’s homeowners insurance...
Aug 21 2002 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Steven Larsen announced the issuance of a bulletin affecting the implementation of a new state law, HB 521, that bans insurers from using credit scoring to rate and underwrite homeowners and...
Mar 7 2002 // In yet another attempt to limit an insurer’s ability to accurately assess risk in Maryland, the House Economic Matters Committee is considering eliminating the use of geographic location as a rating factor in...
Oct 4 2001 // In an effort to receive Federal assistance, Maryland Governor Parris Glendening asked that Prince George’s and Howard Counties be declared disaster areas following the extensive damages caused by a tornado last...
Oct 1 2001 // The damage to public and private property from the tornado which ravaged Prince George’s and Howard Counties last week has been preliminarily estimated at $31.7 million. No indications have yet been made concerning...
Jul 31 2001 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr., announced the filing of criminal insurance fraud charges against Lewis Mulitz, president of PICO Industries of Baltimore. In a three count criminal indictment filed in the...
Jul 5 2001 // The Maryland Insurance Administration has granted a license to Baltimore’s American Skyline Insurance Co. to commence business in the State. Skyline, a property/casualty insurer specializing in home and automobile...
Jun 18 2001 // This is the tale of what the Court of Appeals of Maryland—the state’s highest court—called a modified insurance “Ponzi scheme.” The case, decided earlier this year, is Insurance Company of North...
May 24 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) reported that legislation allowing undisputed workers’ compensation claims to be handled out-of-state was signed recently by Governor Parris Glendening (D). SB 592, which was...
Mar 29 2001 // Legislation allowing undisputed workers’ comp claims to be handled out of state was passed earlier this week by the Maryland House of Delegates. HB 1223, which would abolish an outdated rule requiring workers’...
Jan 22 2001 // Progressive Corp. will make its homeowners insurance product available to be sold exclusively by independent agents in Maryland effective today. Initially, the product is being offered exclusively through independent...
Dec 11 2000 // Cole County Circuit Judge Thomas J. Brown issued an order setting rules on how to distribute $1.2 billion in proceeds from the sale of General American Mutual Holding Co.’s (GAMHC) assets to MetLife.As a mutual...
Sep 25 2000 // Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Co. announced the signing of a definitive agreement to purchase all of the outstanding stock of Insurance One, Inc., a full-service insurance agency in Rockville, Maryland. The transaction is...
Aug 4 2000 // Farmers Insurance Group will close an insurance call center in Timonium, Maryland by the end of this year, a company official said. The move, done for financial reasons according to Carol Siegfried, Farmers’...
Jul 26 2000 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Steven B. Larsen and Allstate Insurance Company, one of the state’s top-selling insurers, reached an agreement in which Allstate will modify its “Do I Need An Attorney?”...
Jul 20 2000 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Steven B. Larsen has named Wendy J. Taparanskas, Ph.D., Associate Commissioner for Life and Health. Dr. Taparanskas will replace Donna B. Imhoff who left the agency in June. Dr. Taparanskas...