Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Hub International Limited Acquires Assets of Maryland’s Bernstein Insurance
Oct 7 2020 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited has acquired the assets of Bernstein Insurance LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Bernstein Insurance’s principal owner, Jennifer Bernstein, was...
Narragansett Bay Insurance Expands into Delaware, Maryland
Oct 2 2020 // Narragansett Bay Insurance Company (NBIC) began writing property and casualty insurance in Delaware and Maryland, effective Oct. 1, 2020. The two states mark the seventh and eighth states where the company provides...
HDI Global Specialty Names Inter Hannover’s Barenthein as MD of Scandinavian Branch
Sep 30 2020 // HDI Global Specialty SE has appointed Thomas Barenthein as the managing director of its Scandinavian Branch. Barenthein joins the specialty lines insurer from Inter Hannover where he was managing director, Sweden. The...
Lawsuit Claims EPA Has Failed to Enforce Chesapeake Bay Pollution Caps
Sep 16 2020 // The Environmental Protection Agency has failed to ensure that Pennsylvania and New York are doing enough to reduce pollution that flows from farms and cities into the Chesapeake Bay, according to a lawsuit filed on...
Governor Hogan Asks for Federal Disaster Declaration in Three Maryland Counties
Sep 10 2020 // Maryland Governor Larry Hogan requested a major disaster declaration from the federal government to help communities in three counties hit by Tropical Storm Isaias last month. If granted, it would provide financial help to...
Governor Hogan Says All Maryland Businesses Can Open Friday
Sep 3 2020 // All businesses in Maryland will be able to open later this week as the state enters the third phase of its coronavirus recovery plan, Governor Larry Hogan announced Tuesday. Movie theaters and performing arts centers will...
Maryland County Washing Away, Residents Face Hard Choices
Aug 25 2020 // High tides surging from a narrow creek destroyed the car Kathy Blake once parked in her gravel driveway here. Over the past two decades, the water has ruined half a dozen of them. Since October, when one of those floods...
Alera Group Acquires Maryland’s FNL Insurance Group
Aug 21 2020 // Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property and casualty, retirement services and wealth management firm, has acquired FNL Insurance Group, effective August 1, 2020. For more than 40 years, FNL Insurance Group has...
One Dead, Seven Rescued After Gas Explosion Levels Baltimore Homes
Aug 12 2020 // A natural gas explosion destroyed three row houses in Baltimore on Monday morning, killing a woman and trapping other people in the debris. At least seven people were seriously injured, and firefighters were searching for...
PSA Insurance and Financial Services Acquires Maryland’s H.U. Dove & Company
Aug 3 2020 // PSA Insurance and Financial Services (PSA), an independent insurance brokerage firm, has acquired H.U. Dove & Company, a 175 year old Baltimore-based company. The acquisition was final as of April 1, 2020. To better...
Derwart Named Chief of Staff for Maryland Insurance Administration
Jul 20 2020 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Kathleen A. Birrane has named Gregory M. Derwart as chief of staff for the Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA). Derwart has experience in state government. From 2015 to 2019, he was...
Maryland Governor Announces $501M Unemployment Insurance Fraud Case
Jul 17 2020 // Maryland uncovered a massive criminal enterprise involving identity theft and more than 47,500 fraudulent unemployment insurance claims in the state adding up to more than $501 million, Governor Larry Hogan said Wednesday,...
Maryland’s Frederick Mutual Promotes Stenbjorn to Chief Information Officer
Jul 16 2020 // Frederick Mutual, a Frederick, Md.-based insurance company, has promoted Paul Stenbjorn to chief information officer. Stenbjorn has been a technology management professional for more than 25 years. He has previously held...
Maryland Auto Executive Director McCurdy Retires, Reflects on 38-Year Career
Jul 15 2020 // When Mark McCurdy informed Maryland Auto Insurance’s Board of Trustees in July 2019 of his intention to retire this year, he never imagined that the few months ahead of his retirement would involve leading the...
Ten-Year-Old Charged with Arson in Maryland Garage Fire Causing $14K in Damage
Jul 14 2020 // A 10-year-old boy faces arson charges after a garage fire near Union Mills Thursday, the Office of the State Fire Marshal said. Firefighters responded to the garage fire in the 3500 block of Littlestown Pike in Westminster...
Sanity Trial in Maryland Newspaper Shooting Postponed Amid Pandemic
Jul 9 2020 // Court proceedings to determine criminal sanity for a man who pleaded guilty to killing five people at Maryland newspaper have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Jarrod Ramos’ pre-trial hearings have...
Maryland Insurance Commissioner Birrane Sees State as Leader in Tech Innovation
Jul 2 2020 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Birrane has been in her new role for nearly two months, and she already has big plans for the state to establish itself as a leader in the tech space. “I’d like to see...
Police Say Maryland Man Charged in Church Arson Case
Jun 29 2020 // A Maryland man faces multiple arson-related charges after police say he confessed to setting fires at a church where investigators found a Molotov cocktail in a vestibule. David Francis Creager, 47, was detained Friday and...
Maryland Home Builder to Pay More Than $700K for Violating Consumer Protection Laws
Jun 26 2020 // Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh has announced that his Consumer Protection Division issued a final order finding that Clark P. Turner and Clark Turner Homes LLC of Harford County violated Maryland’s Consumer...
Maryland Moves into Phase Two of Coronavirus Reopening Plan
Jun 9 2020 // Maryland further eased restrictions imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus by allowing businesses to reopen Friday, but some of the state’s largest jurisdictions are waiting to enter Phase 2 of the...
