Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Former Maryland Insurance Commissioner Orr Joins Workers’ Comp Insurer
Oct 3 2011 // Former Maryland Insurance Commissioner R. Steven Orr has joined Towson, Md.-based IWIF Workers’ Compensation Insurance as senior vice president of information systems. In his new role, he will be responsible for...
Thousands of Maryland Drivers Ticketed for Cell Phone Use
Oct 3 2011 // Maryland police agencies have issued thousands of tickets to drivers for using hand-held cellphones behind the wheel in the year since a ban took effect. Records from more than 70 police agencies in the state that...
BB&T Expands in Baltimore Area, Acquires Atlantic Risk Management
Sep 28 2011 // Insurance broker BB&T Insurance Services is acquiring Atlantic Risk Management Corp. of Columbia, Maryland. The move allows BB&T Insurance Services to expand to the metro Baltimore area. The transaction is expected...
Maryland Brothers Acquitted in Alleged Murder-for-hire Plot
Sep 9 2011 // Two brothers accused of carrying out the slaying of a blind and mentally disabled man as part of an insurance scam have been found not guilty of all counts, including conspiracy to commit murder. James and Kareem Clea...
Earthquake, Hurricane Keep Maryland Insurance Agents Busy
Sep 1 2011 // First came the earthquake; then the hurricane. Now comes the bill. And with any luck, you have a decent insurance policy that will cover the cost of most, if not all, of the damages sustained in one or both natural...
Hurricane Irene Update: 50 Million People Could Be Affected
Aug 26 2011 // Parts of the southeastern United States were already experiencing dangerous swells and rip tides Thursday as Hurricane Irene exited the Bahamas. On Friday afternoon, ahead of Hurricane Irene’s forecasted arrival in...
Most Maryland Homeowner Policies Don’t Have Quake Coverage
Aug 26 2011 // Most Marylander homeowners aren’t likely to be covered for earthquake damage under their homeowner’s policies. The Insurance Information Institute [I.I.I.] said earthquakes are not covered under standard...
Maryland Brothers Face Trial for Murder-for-Hire Insurance Scam
Aug 24 2011 // Opening statements are expected this week in the trial of two brothers accused of carrying out the killing of a blind and mentally disabled man as part of an insurance scam in Baltimore. Jury selection has already begun in...
