All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 17 2022 // Ensurise announced that Hershberger Insurance Agency has joined its agency network. Hershberger Insurance Agency will continue to operate from its Grantsville, Maryland location. Currently under the leadership of Frank J....
Mar 9 2022 // SILVER SPRING, Md. — An explosion and fire that destroyed a Maryland apartment building last week was accidental and caused by a maintenance worker who cut a gas line instead of a waste pipe, an official said...
Mar 9 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Willis Towers Watson, Optio Group and MS Amlin.A summary of these new hires follows here. WTW Hires MS Amlin’s Singh for Climate Analytics, Exposure...
Mar 4 2022 // Maryland lawmakers highlighted a package of measures Wednesday to tighten cybersecurity in the state.Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones noted that Baltimore County was one of about 50 school systems across the nation...
Feb 25 2022 // A Montana jury has awarded $36.5 million in damages to an Oregon man who suffers from lung disease because of exposure to asbestos while working at a vermiculite mine in Libby, a bellwether case that could affect hundreds...
Feb 11 2022 // World Insurance Associates said it acquired Allied Partners Insurance Inc. of Gaithersburg, Maryland on February 1, 2022. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Allied Partners Insurance, Inc. was established in...
Feb 7 2022 // A federal judge in Baltimore on Thursday dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. filed by the family of a rideshare driver who was killed by a passenger in 2019.U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake...
Feb 1 2022 // A Maryland coalition of insurance interests and trucking firms is hoping a House bill will put the brakes on towing companies that haul away big trucks after accidents and charge exorbitant fees.“It is not...
Jan 18 2022 // The disruption of Maryland’s reporting of COVID-19 data last month was caused by a ransomware attack, state officials said Wednesday.Chip Stewart, the state’s chief information security officer, said the state...
Jan 13 2022 // Maryland lawmakers are convening Wednesday for their 90-day legislative session.They will spend much of the session working on how to manage a huge, $4.6 billion budget surplus. That’s because of unexpectedly large...
Jan 7 2022 // Hub International, an insurance brokerage firm, announced it has acquired Maryland-based Raffa Financial Services, an insurance and benefits brokerage and consulting firm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Raffa,...
Jan 3 2022 // Maryland officials resumed reporting coronavirus deaths Tuesday after a more than three week interruption amid an apparent cyberattack, adding more than 400 deaths to the state’s tally.At least 415 Marylanders died...
Dec 28 2021 // A seven-year-old boy who was critically injured in an apartment fire in a Baltimore neighborhood has died, authorities said Sunday.The Baltimore County Fire Department said in a news release that Clinton Chimobi Ezeamaka...
Dec 20 2021 // Two former Maryland football players have each reached $200,000 settlements in lawsuits accusing former coach DJ Durkin of running a program that subjected athletes to an abusive environment.The Maryland Attorney...
Dec 16 2021 // The Hilb Group brought PSA Insurance & Financial Services into its portfolio, further strengthening its presence in the Mid-Atlantic region as well as building on its range of employee benefits, commercial and personal...
Dec 16 2021 // A former Maryland public adjuster has been sentenced for theft and insurance fraud.Tashoia Starr Grant, of Street, Maryland, was sentenced on two counts of theft scheme with a value between $10,000 but less than $100,000,...
Dec 13 2021 // Oriole Park at Camden Yards will test a new security technology during the upcoming baseball season that uses 3D imaging and artificial intelligence to detect concealed weapons.The Maryland Stadium Authority announced...
Dec 10 2021 // Consistent with Governor Larry Hogan’s commitment to address and mitigate the effects of climate change, the state of Maryland has joined the Sustainable Insurance Forum (SIF) of the United Nations Development...
Dec 9 2021 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Kathleen A. Birrane is warning Marylanders, particularly small transportation business owners, that Bethesda-based Phillip Johnson Family Insurance Agency LLC (PFI) and its lead agent...
Dec 8 2021 // A Maryland home was accidentally burned to the ground by an owner trying to get rid of a snake infestation, officials said.The homeowner in Poolesville, a town about 25 miles outside of Washington D.C., was attempting to...