Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Maryland Man Gets 4 Years in Prison for Setting House on Fire for Insurance
Feb 5 2015 // A Maryland man who pleaded guilty to plotting to burn down his house to collect insurance proceeds has been sentenced to four years in prison. Forty-nine-year-old Saleh Fakhoury of Lutherville, Maryland, was also ordered...
Investigators Say Christmas Tree Fueled Fatal Maryland Mansion Fire
Jan 30 2015 // An electrical fire that spread to a 15-foot Christmas tree prompted a blaze that reduced a 16,000-square-foot riverfront mansion near Maryland’s capital to ruins, killing a couple and four of their young...
People – East
Jan 12 2015 // Maryland’s Republican Gov.-elect Larry Hogan has named Al Redmer, Jr. to be the state’s insurance commissioner. Maryland’s current insurance commissioner, Therese M. Goldsmith, previously announced that...
Redmer to Return as Maryland’s Insurance Commissioner
Dec 31 2014 // Al Redmer, Jr. Maryland’s Republican Gov.-elect Larry Hogan has named Al Redmer, Jr. to be the state’s insurance commissioner. Hogan made the announcement Tuesday at a press conference. Redmer held...
Home Safety Outreach Planned After 2 Fatal Fires in Maryland County
Dec 28 2014 // Prince George’s County, Maryland, fire officials went door-to-door in the Capitol Heights and Bowie areas to make sure families have working smoke alarms and an escape plan in the event of a fire. Their efforts on...
A.M. Best Reaffirms Chesapeake Employers’ Financial Strength Rating
Dec 24 2014 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, the largest workers’ compensation insurance company in Maryland, announced that insurance ratings agency A.M. Best Co. has reaffirmed a financial strength rating of A-...
Maryland Insurance Commissioner Goldsmith to Step Down in January
Dec 23 2014 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Therese M. GoldsmithMaryland Insurance Commissioner Therese M. Goldsmith — who was appointed by Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley in 2011 for a four-year term that ends on May 31,...
Price Optimization Allegations Challenged, NAIC Investigating Practice
Dec 18 2014 // Reaction to industry-wide price optimization allegations from a consumer group known to call out insurers has been somewhat critical yet guarded – however it appears regulators may already be starting to look into the...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Independent Benefit Services in Maryland
Dec 17 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. today announced the acquisition of Independent Benefit Services Inc. (iBEN) located in Rockville, Maryland. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1989, iBEN provides...
Maryland Firm to Pay $415K to Settle EEOC Discrimination Suit
Nov 18 2014 // A Maryland-based environmental remediation services contractor will pay $415,000 and provide comprehensive equitable relief to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) race, gender discrimination and...
Maryland Says Insurers Can’t Use ‘Price Optimization’
Nov 17 2014 // The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) issued a bulletin alerting insurers that the use of “price optimization” in Maryland is in violation of §27-212(e)(1) of the state’s Insurance Article. MIA...
Hudson Insurance Acquires Surety Partners’ Northeast Operation
Nov 13 2014 // Hudson Insurance Group has acquired the underwriting operations of Surety Partners of America, Northeast, which is based in Chester, New Jersey. Surety Partners of America, which was formed in 2009, is licensed and...
Md. Court Overturns $500K Verdict, Says Insurance Issue Likely Prejudiced Jury
Nov 4 2014 // A Maryland appeals court has overturned a $500,000 verdict to a woman who was hit by a truck because the trial judge erred by allowing the jury to hear that the driver’s liability insurance had been cancelled because...
Maryland Insurers Using ‘Price Optimization’ Ordered to File Corrective Action Plan
Nov 3 2014 // The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) issued a bulletin alerting insurers that the use of “price optimization” in Maryland is in violation of §27-212(e)(1) of the state’s Insurance Article. MIA...
Maryland County Eyes Doubling Fines for Passing School Buses
Oct 17 2014 // Police have issued tickets to 730 drivers for passing stopped school buses in Maryland’s Montgomery County in the past nine months. Police say that number is way too high. In Maryland’s Washington County, just...
A.M. Best Revises Outlook to Negative for Frederick Mutual in Maryland
Oct 17 2014 // Ratings agency A.M. Best said it has revised the outlook to “negative” from “stable” and affirmed the financial strength rating of “A- (Excellent)” and the issuer credit rating of...
Maryland Begins Electronic Filing of Court Documents
Oct 15 2014 // The Maryland court system is launching an electronic case management system to eventually enable people statewide to file and view court documents on their computers. Tuesday’s launch in Annapolis makes electronic...
AssuredPartners Acquires Crawford Advisors in Maryland
Sep 29 2014 // AssuredPartners Inc., through its subsidiary AssuredPartners of Maryland, LLC, has acquired Crawford Advisors, LLC, in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Crawford Advisors specializes in...
Maryland Officer Charged in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Sep 25 2014 // A Montgomery County, Maryland, police officer has been charged with perjury and workers’ compensation fraud. Gilbert Payne was charged Tuesday in Baltimore City Circuit Court. The 40-year-old Payne didn’t...
Maryland County Public Schools CFO Suspended for Insurance Fraud
Sep 23 2014 // The chief financial officer for Prince George’s County public schools in Maryland has been placed on administrative leave after the Maryland Insurance Administration found he had committed insurance fraud. A school...
