Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Thousands in St. Louis, Missouri, Area Claim Hail Damage
May 21 2012 // The number of insurance claims resulting from the damaging hail storm that struck the St. Louis region in late April could top 100,000. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the region’s two largest insurance...
The McGowan Cos. Purchases Md.-Based Allied Insurance Brokers
Apr 30 2012 // The McGowan Companies (McGowan), based in Fairview Park, Ohio, purchased the assets of Allied Insurance Brokers Inc. (Allied). Allied, which is headquartered in Marriottsville, Md., will begin operating under the...
Maryland Regulators Offer Tips on GAP Insurance
Apr 10 2012 // The Maryland Insurance Administration is offering advice to car owners about risks of a total loss and how GAP insurance can help them. The officials said that car owners sometimes assume − incorrectly − that if their...
Maryland House, Senate Pass Health Exchange Bill
Mar 28 2012 // The Maryland General Assembly has passed a measure to create a framework for a health insurance marketplace to provide coverage to the uninsured. The House of Delegates and state Senate voted 94-44 and 35-12, respectively,...
Facebook, Lawmakers Warn Employers Not to Demand Passwords
Mar 25 2012 // Facebook and lawmakers have warned employers against requesting Facebook passwords while screening job applicants, a controversial practice that underscores the blurring distinction between personal and professional lives...
Maryland Launches Website to Navigate Health Reform
Mar 24 2012 // A new state website will help Maryland residents navigate health care reform policies. Officials announced the launch of the site on Friday, the second anniversary of the passage of the Federal Affordable Care Act. The...
Legality of Employers Asking Job Applicants For Facebook Passwords Questioned
Mar 22 2012 // In their efforts to vet job applicants, some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person’s social networking profiles and instead are asking to log in as the user to have a look...
Maryland Lt. Gov. Launches Health Insurance Marketing Campaign
Mar 21 2012 // Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown wants to increase the number of applications to a federally funded health insurance program run by the state. Brown kicked off the second anniversary of the federal Affordable Care Act on...
Pedestrian Safety Program Launched in Ocean City, Maryland
Mar 16 2012 // The State Highway Administration has launched a program to reduce jaywalking across Coastal Highway in Ocean City. The three-year pilot program will use newly designed sidewalk markings about 10 feet from three...
Maryland Senate Votes to Ban Smoking in Cars with Kids
Mar 16 2012 // The Maryland Senate wants to prohibit drivers from smoking in cars if a child under the age of 8 is a passenger. Senators signed off on the bill in a 27-19 vote Wednesday. Proponents of the legislation said they chose the...
$100,000 Settlement for Maryland Coal Miners’ Families
Mar 5 2012 // Two families will split $100,000 in a settlement of a wrongful death suit brought after two coal miners were killed in a high-wall collapse. The Times-News of Cumberland, Maryland, reports that the families of 51-year-old...
Maryland Court Sides With Allstate in Coastal Homeowners Case
Feb 20 2012 // The Maryland Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, recently ruled in favor of Allstate. The court upheld a previous lower court’s ruling that the insurer was within its rights to stop writing new...
Maryland-based Avon-Dixon Agency Appoints Selective Exec as COO
Feb 6 2012 // Maryland-based Avon-Dixon Agency appointed industry veteran Donna Sposa as chief operating officer and vice president. Donna Sposa Sposa has an extensive background in the property/casualty insurance industry, most...
Maryland High Court Sides With Allstate in Coastal Homeowners Case
Jan 31 2012 // The Maryland Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, ruled in favor of Allstate last week. It upheld a previous lower court’s ruling that the insurer was within its rights to stop writing new homeowners...
Florida’s FCCI Names Executives for Texas, Maryland Expansion
Jan 30 2012 // FCCI Insurance Group has announced it is expanding its commercial insurance offerings into Maryland and Texas. The company has named several executives to serve in a new home office that will oversee operations in those...
Maryland Court: Premium Financing Firms Overcharged Auto Policyholders
Dec 30 2011 // A Maryland court ruled last week that the state’s largest premium financing companies were engaged in illegal financing practices against auto insurance policyholders. In Maryland, most auto insurance policyholders...
Maryland To Hold Hearing on Insurance Affordability for Coastal Areas
Dec 2 2011 // Maryland Insurance Administration will hold a two-day quasi-legislative public hearing, on Dec. 13 and 14, to discuss the availability and affordability for personal and commercial P/C insurance in coastal areas. Several...
Maryland Insurance Administration Announces Senior Appointments
Nov 23 2011 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Therese Goldsmith recently announced three senior appointments at the Maryland Insurance Administration. Karen Stakem Hornig has been appointed as the administration’s sole deputy...
Maryland’s Highest Court Rules on Lead Paint Lawsuits
Oct 26 2011 // Maryland’s highest court has ruled that a law giving owners of certain rental properties immunity from personal injury lawsuits based on a child’s ingestion of lead-based paint is invalid. The Court of Appeals...
Penn.-based Insurance Agents & Brokers Hires Brinjac
Oct 14 2011 // Insurance Agents & Brokers Services Group in Pennsylvania appointed Lauren Brinjac as government affairs director. In her role, Brinjac will oversee legislative advocacy efforts of the organization throughout...
