Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
23 States Get Funds for Injury, Violence Prevention Programs
Jul 6 2016 // The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded $30 million to 23 state health departments over the next five years as part of the Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program (Core SVIPP). The program will...
Family Alleges Maryland Security Guards Chased Shoplifter to Death
Jun 23 2016 // The family of a suspected shoplifter who drowned after running from Arundel Mills mall security officers is suing the shopping center’s security staff for allegedly chasing him to his death. The Capital reports Tavon...
Flawed Flood Maps Hurting Condo Sales in Maryland City
Jun 20 2016 // Flawed Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance maps have caused insurance premiums at some Ocean City, Maryland, properties to skyrocket, but city officials say a resolution could still take months. The Daily...
Opioid Deaths Continue to Rise in Maryland: Report
Jun 14 2016 // New data from the Maryland Department of State and Mental Hygiene shows that overdose deaths from the synthetic opioid fenantyl have increased 83 percent since last year. Media outlets report that the latest data, released...
Flawed Flood Maps Hurting Condo Sales in Ocean City, Maryland
Jun 9 2016 // Flawed Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance maps have caused insurance premiums at some Ocean City, Maryland, properties to skyrocket, but city officials say a resolution could still take months. The Daily...
240K Marylanders Missing Out on Health Insurance Help
May 24 2016 // It’s an unusual problem: The more people in rural areas Mark Romaninsky and his team help sign up for health insurance, the more difficult it becomes to find people who still need to enroll. “It gets harder and...
Maryland Commissioner Redmer Elected Chair of NAIC Northeast Zone
May 16 2016 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Northeast Zone has elected Maryland Insurance Commissioner, Al Redmer, Jr., as its new chair. Redmer succeeds Susan L. Donegan, the outgoing commissioner of...
Hostetter Joins Jack Martin & Associates in Maryland
Apr 25 2016 // Damon Hostetter Jack Martin & Associates, a division of Easton, Maryland-based Avon-Dixon Agency, announced that Damon Hostetter has rejoined the firm. Hostetter will be the agency’s Yacht Division executive. He...
Maryland’s Chesapeake to Phase in NCCI Rates in 2020
Apr 18 2016 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance, announced its plan to phase in the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) rating...
People – East
Apr 18 2016 // Susan L. Donegan, who has been serving as commissioner of the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) for past three years, will step down from her position on June 30. Donegan has met with Vermont Gov. Peter...
Maryland Doctor Gets 9 Years in $3M Health Care Fraud Scheme
Apr 15 2016 // A Potomac, Maryland, physician who owned and operated a pain management clinic has been sentenced to 9 years in prison for a $3 million health care fraud scheme. Sixty-year-old Paramjit Singh Ajrawat was also ordered to...
Maryland’s Chesapeake Employers to Begin Phasing in NCCI Rates in 2020
Apr 5 2016 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance, announced its plan to phase in the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) rating...
People – East
Apr 4 2016 // Satellite Agency Network (SAN) Group Inc., an alliance of over 330 independent agencies in the Northeast, has hired Cindy Prouty as regional vice president of eastern Massachusetts. Prouty will be responsible for...
Imm Joins Maryland Insurance Administration as Public Affairs Director
Mar 30 2016 // Tracy Imm Maryland Insurance Commissioner Al Redmer Jr. announced the appointment of Tracy Imm as the Maryland Insurance Administration’s (MIA) director of Public Affairs. In her role, Imm will serve as the...
O’Grady Joins Maryland Insurance Administration as Associate Commissioner
Mar 24 2016 // Vincent P. O’Grady Maryland Insurance Commissioner Al Redmer, Jr., announced the appointment of Vincent P. O’Grady as the Maryland Insurance Administration’s (MIA) new associate commissioner, Examination...
The Hilb Group Acquires Raley, Watts & O’Neill in Maryland
Mar 16 2016 // The Hilb Group, a middle market insurance agency based in Richmond, Virginia, announced Wednesday that it has acquired Raley, Watts & O’Neill (RWO), an independent agency based in the town of California in...
Obama Approves Disaster Aid for Maryland Snowstorm
Mar 7 2016 // Emergency management officials say President Obama has approved Maryland’s request for a disaster declaration after January’s record-breaking snowstorm. The Maryland Emergency Management Agency said in a news...
Chesapeake Employers Announces 4 Promotions in Maryland
Mar 7 2016 // Joan Adelman Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance, announced the following four promotions. Joan Adelman was recently promoted to assistant...
Maryland Issues Bulletin on Minimum Days Notice
Mar 7 2016 // The Maryland Insurance Administration said it has come to regulators’ attention that some insurers and premium finance companies may not be providing the minimum days notice as prescribed by the Maryland statutes...
Maryland Farmers Encouraged to Consider Crop Insurance
Mar 3 2016 // Maryland Secretary of Agriculture Joe Bartenfelder issued a reminder for local farmers that the sales closing date to purchase crop insurance for spring seeded crops and to make changes to policies is March 15. Spring...
