Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Md. Cop on the Wrong Side of the Law; Convicted of Insurance Fraud
Nov 12 2005 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr., announced the conviction of a seven year veteran of the Prince George’s County Police Department for insurance fraud. Jermaine Ayala, 30, of Lanham, received an 18...
Mid-Atlantic States Form Regional Hazard Response Consortium
Oct 25 2005 // A number of Mid-Atlantic states are forming what they are calling the All Hazards Consortium to increase preparedness by enabling emergency management participants to share strategies and integrate planning. The AHC, a...
Md. Sedan Owners Lose Drive to Halt 52% Rate Hike
Oct 24 2005 // The Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund has prevailed over a challenge to its most recent 52.8 percent rate increase by sedan owners. The Maryland Insurance Administration upheld the increase in an order signed by Acting...
Md. Workers Comp Insurer Retains CEO Bromwell Despite Indictments
Oct 23 2005 // Former State Sen. Thomas Bromwell will retain his position as president and chief executive officer of Maryland’s largest workers’ compensation insurer despite his indictment in an alleged racketeering scheme...
Former Md. Senator, Workers Comp Fund CEO Facing Federal Charges
Oct 20 2005 // A once-powerful former Maryland state senator and head of the state’s largest workers’ compensation provider was indicted this week on federal charges of influence-peddling in exchange for free contracting work...
Maryland Auto Task Force Meets
Oct 18 2005 // The Maryland Insurance Administration is convening its Auto Insurance Task Force to Study Rates in Urban Areas today, Oct. 18, at Prince George’s Community College, Largo Student Center, Conference Room 2. The task...
Insurers Urge Md. to Attack Costs, Trim Mandates to Lower Urban Rates
Oct 18 2005 // Insurance companies are urging Maryland officials looking for ways to reduce urban auto insurance rates to focus on curbing the underlying costs, reducing the required benefits package and encouraging insurers to expand in...
Redmer Resigns as Maryland Chief to Take Health Insurer Position
Oct 12 2005 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer is leaving his state job to become chief executive officer of Coventry Health Care, a Delaware-based health insurance company. “It’s just a perfect...
Redmer Reassures Public Over Katrina’s Impact on Md. Prices
Sep 15 2005 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr. attempted to reassure consumers today by telling them that they should not fear dramatic changes to the insurance market or insurance premiums in Maryland in the wake...
Pair of Former Md. Insurance Administration Employees Convicted
Sep 13 2005 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. announced that two former Maryland Insurance Administration Agent Enforcement Officers, William E. Unkle and Joseph E. Wolfe, pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the...
News Briefs
Sep 5 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS Fed Probe Firing of MassMutual CEO: Federal prosecutors are investigating the conduct that led to the firing of former MassMutual Insurance Comany chief executive Robert J. O’Connell, the company...
MED-MAL PAYOUTS DROPPING:
Sep 5 2005 // Payouts in medical malpractice awards in Maryland dropped last year after several years of big increases, prompting the state’s largest insurance carrier to keep the rates it charges doctors level in 2006. The...
News Briefs
Aug 22 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS Health Insurance Rates Rising: The state’s largest health insurers say most Massachusetts companies and their workers will see increases of 10 percent or more in their health insurance premiums...
Md. Cop Nabbed in Fraud Case
Aug 19 2005 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr., announced the filing of criminal insurance fraud charges against Jermaine Ayala, a police officer employed by the Prince Georges County Police Department. The indictment...
Maryland’s IWIF Partners with Pair of Members to Offer WC Coverage
Aug 19 2005 // IWIF Workers’ Compensation Insurance, a Maryland workers’ compensation insurance carrier, recently introduced two new target market programs specially designed for WANADA and AIMS members domiciled in...
Business Moves
Aug 8 2005 // Berkshire Hathaway, General Electric Omaha, Neb.-based Berkshire Hathaway and Kansas City, Mo.-based General Electric announced that GE Insurance Solutions’ sale of Medical Protective Corporation to Columbia...
Md. Insurance Administration Employees Charged in Licensing Scam
Aug 5 2005 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. has filed criminal charges in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against two former Maryland Insurance Administration agent enforcement officers for doctoring computer...
Insurers Sue Security Firm for Hiring Alleged Md. Arsonist
Jul 31 2005 // The insurers for the company building the Hunters Brooke development in Charles County, Maryland have filed a lawsuit against the security firm that employed one of the men who allegedly set fire to the subdivision last...
Md. Sedan Owners: Latest Insurance Hike Causing Industry Crisis
Jul 27 2005 // Already reeling from one insurance rate increase still under appeal, independent sedan transportation operators in Maryland have been told rates will be going up again. The Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund, a...
Md. Workers’ Comp Payments Outpace U.S. Average, Study Says
Jul 22 2005 // In Maryland, total workers’ compensation payments for injured workers’ cash benefits and medical care rose by 9.4 percent to $628.5 million in 2003, according to a report by the National Academy of Social...
