Latest Maryland Headlines
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Maryland Lawmakers Override Veto of Med-Mal Bill
Jan 11 2005 // The Maryland House and Senate overrode Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s veto of medical malpractice bill that includes a 2 percent premium tax on HMOs. The $64 million estimated revenues from the tax in the first year will be...
Insurers Urge Veto of Maryland Med-Mal Measure
Jan 7 2005 // Insurance companies, claiming that the measure will have only minimal effect on insurance prices for doctors, are urging Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich (R) to veto a reform bill passed last week by lawmakers. The American...
Maryland Docs Urge Gov. Ehrlich to Sign Med-Mal Bill Despite Its Tort Shortcomings
Jan 5 2005 // Imploring lawmakers to follow the physician’s oath to “first, do no harm,” a coalition of doctors said that a medical malpractice reform bill passed last week should become law, despite the bill’s...
Maryland Hunts for Motives Behind State’s Largest Residential Arson
Jan 3 2005 // An arson that destroyed part of a Greenbelt, Maryland-area development with many black homeowners was “an effort to wipe out a community” and authorities are “very carefully investigating” whether...
INSURERS BACK MD. CLAIMS LAW:
Jan 3 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has filed an amicus brief before the Maryland Court of Appeals, urging the court to affirm a lower court decision upholding a law, in existence since 1872, that...
DEL. COURT WEIGHS CAREFIRST:
Jan 3 2005 // Health care insurer CareFirst has asked the Delaware Supreme Court to overturn an order that dissolved its affiliation with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware. CareFirst attorney Harding Drane Jr. maintained Insurance...
Maryland Lawmakers Agree on Med-Mal Bill But Governor Vows Veto Due to Tax Feature
Dec 31 2004 // The Maryland General Assembly, meeting into the early morning hours Thursday, approved a medical malpractice insurance reform package that Gov. Robert Ehrlich said he would veto because of a dispute over a tax on HMO...
Maryland Gov. Ehrlich’s Med-Mal Proposal Unveiled; Special Legislative Session Gets Underway Today
Dec 28 2004 // Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., on Dec. 22 provided Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael E. Busch a copy of the medical malpractice legislation that will be introduced during special...
Md. Gov. Ehrlich Calls Special Med-Mal Session But Details of Proposal Remain Unclear
Dec 22 2004 // Days after Gov. Robert Ehrlich announced he had reached an agreement with top legislative leaders to call a special session of the legislature to work on medical malpractice insurance reform, details of the agreement...
Md. to Hold Special Legislative Session on Med-Mal
Dec 20 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich on Friday called for a special legislative session after Christmas to deal with the “most important issue in the state of Maryland” — medical malpractice insurance. The...
MD. SESSION ON MED-MAL UNLIKELY:
Dec 20 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s failure to provide a source of funds needed to underwrite malpractice insurance premiums makes a special session of the legislature unlikely, according to Senate President Thomas V....
From Maine to Virginia … What Happened in 2004
Dec 20 2004 // Leaving aside the insurance brokerage compensation investigations, the World Trade Center trial, the St. Paul-Travelers merger and the UnumProvident settlement, all of which have their roots in this region but grew to...
NTSB Chairman to Speak at Md. Town Hall Meeting Focusing on Teen Driving Deaths
Dec 16 2004 // National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Ellen Engleman Conners will speak to Washington, D.C. area parents about teen driving safety at a town hall meeting on Thursday, Dec. 16, at 6 p.m. “In Maryland, teen...
Arson Suspected in Fires in Posh Md. Subdivision; FBI Also Looking into Possible Ecoterrorism
Dec 8 2004 // Investigators suspect arson in at least four of the fires that destroyed a dozen homes and burned several others in Indian Head, a posh Maryland subdivision under construction near a nature preserve, and the FBI said it...
Md. Special Session on Med-Mal Called Unlikely
Dec 8 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s failure to provide a source of funds needed to underwrite malpractice insurance premiums makes a special session of the legislature unlikely, according to Senate President Thomas V....
Task Force X-Rays Maryland Medical Malpractice System
Dec 6 2004 // Having low risk doctors subsidize premiums for higher risk doctors, establishing state courts exclusively for health matters, abolishing the state’s arbitration office, licensing life care planners, restricting...
Task Force Report In But Time Running Out for Maryland Med Mal Session
Dec 6 2004 // Gov. Robert Ehrlich, who submitted medical malpractice reform legislation more than a month ago, has received a final report from a task force he created to recommend solutions to the insurance crisis. The report contains...
Sandy Spring Bank to Acquire Md. Agency
Dec 2 2004 // Sandy Spring Bank, a subsidiary of Sandy Spring Bancorp, announced that Sandy Spring Insurance Corporation has reached an agreement to acquire certain assets & liabilities of Wolfe & Reichelt Insurance Agency,...
Special Legislative Session in Maryland Unlikely Before Doctors Med-Mal Payments Due
Nov 19 2004 // The head of a Maryland Senate committee developing legislation to deal with rising medical malpractice premiums said the panel should finalize its proposal at its next meeting in two weeks, and doesn’t think a...
Study: Medical Liability Harming Maryland Economy
Nov 17 2004 // A hospital industry backed study indicates that Maryland’s medical liability environment that is costing medical professionals more and more could end up costing as many as 3,000 jobs by 2005. “The effects of...
