Latest Maryland Headlines
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State Farm to Cut Rates in Maryland for Second Time in Two Years
Mar 19 2019 // State Farm Insurance Companies will cut its rates in Maryland for the second time in two years. As a result, its overall personal auto rate will drop by 1.4 percent. The total state-wide expected impact for State Farm by...
Underwriting and Rating Tools Under Attack in State Legislatures
Mar 18 2019 // California, a bellwether state in many ways, rang in 2019 with a regulation banning the use of gender in auto insurance underwriting and rating. Prior to this regulation, insurers used gender in California for more than 30...
Hub International Limited Acquires The Insurance Exchange in Maryland
Mar 11 2019 // Hub International Limited has acquired The Insurance Exchange Inc. Based in Rockville, Md., The Insurance Exchange is an independent insurance agency that provides employee benefits consulting, commercial property and...
Marsh & McLennan Agency Acquires Maryland’s Employee Benefits Group
Mar 5 2019 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, has acquired Employee Benefits Group Inc. (EBG), a Bethesda, Md.-based independent insurance agency specializing in employee benefits and...
Maryland Man Who Suffered Brain Damage from Lead Paint Wins $2M
Feb 28 2019 // A Baltimore, Md., jury has awarded around $2 million to a man who has permanent brain damage from being exposed to lead paint as a child. The Daily Record reports a jury on Friday awarded 24-year-old Savon Johnson $1.1...
National Transportation Safety Board Investigating Worker Death in Maryland
Feb 12 2019 // Federal officials are investigating after a railroad worker was killed at a Baltimore, Md., railyard. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Keith Holloway said by telephone that a Norfolk Southern worker was...
Maryland Insurance Agency Settles Gender Discrimination Lawsuit
Feb 1 2019 // The Maryland Insurance Administration has settled a lawsuit over gender-based pay discrimination. News outlets report the agency will pay nearly $37,000 to three female fraud investigators who say they were paid less than...
Washington D.C.’s Ensurise Merges with Maryland’s Reese, Yeatman & Associates
Jan 24 2019 // Independent insurance agency Ensurise LLC has merged with the property and casualty insurance brokerage operations of Reese, Yeatman & Associates Inc. Founded more than 40 years ago by Michael G. Reese Sr., Reese...
Maryland Family Sues for Up to $20M Over Man’s Death at Delaware Junk Yard
Jan 23 2019 // The family of a Maryland man crushed by a van in a Delaware junk yard is suing the business for up to $20 million for gross negligence, wrongful death and other claims. The News Journal of Wilmington reports the family of...
The Hilb Group Acquires Maryland’s D’Camera Group
Jan 10 2019 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired D’Camera Group (DG). The transaction became effective January 1, 2019. Located in Annapolis, Md., DG is a full-service insurance agency founded in 2006 and primarily provides...
Libertate/Risk MD Merges With Ballator Group of Florida
Jan 7 2019 // Ballator Insurance Group (BIG) of Orlando, Fla., and Libertate Insurance/RiskMD have merged to offer support with insurance placements and data management for professional employer organizations (PEO’s). BIG and its...
East States See Health, Flood Coverages as Key in 2019 with Insurtech, Recruitment Raising Concerns
Jan 7 2019 // From big data and blockchain to autonomous vehicles and new technology that isn’t yet on the radar, “change is inevitable” for the insurance industry in 2019. “Insurance companies, insurance...
Maryland Warehouse Fire Causes Estimated $1.5M in Damage
Jan 2 2019 // A warehouse fire in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., has caused damage to a business that supplies temporary bleachers and scaffolding. Prince George’s County fire department spokesman Mark E. Brady told the...
Effect of Judge Ruling Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional Delayed for Appeal
Dec 17 2018 // Obamacare was struck down by a Texas federal judge in a ruling that casts uncertainty on insurance coverage for millions of U.S. residents, drawing sharp condemnation from some medical professionals and a vow for action by...
University of Maryland Says 22 Confirmed Cases of Adenovirus
Dec 3 2018 // More cases of a respiratory virus have been confirmed at the University of Maryland, College Park, where a freshman died of complications from the virus last month. The director of the university’s health center said...
Family of Girl Electrocuted at MGM Resort in Maryland Plans to Sue
Nov 21 2018 // The family of a then-6-year-old girl who was electrocuted at the MGM National Harbor resort just outside Washington plans to sue. News outlets obtained a copy of a forthcoming lawsuit from the family of Zynae Green, who...
Weather-Related Building Collapse at Maryland Amazon Distribution Warehouse
Nov 6 2018 // The fire department says one person is dead and another was unaccounted for after a weather-related building collapse at an Amazon distribution warehouse on Baltimore’s southeast side, the Baltimore Sun...
Hub International Limited Acquires Maryland’s The TAMRAC Group
Nov 6 2018 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited has acquired The TAMRAC Group Inc. (TAMRAC). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Md., TAMRAC specializes in personal insurance and...
Hub Acquires Assets of Maryland’s Insurance Management Associates
Nov 2 2018 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of Insurance Management Associates Inc. (IMA). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Based in Annapolis, Md., IMA is a full-service...
Risk Strategies Acquires Maryland’s Arkin Youngentob Associates
Oct 31 2018 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Arkin Youngentob Associates, a full-service employee and executive benefits firm headquartered in Bethesda, Md. Terms...
