Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mina Named Managing Partner for Willis of Maryland
Nov 10 2010 // John Mina has been appointed managing partner at Willis of Maryland, Inc. Mina will be responsible for business development for Willis’ Washington, D.C.-based insurance brokerage operations. He will be based in...
Maryland Court Upholds State Cap on Lawsuit Payouts
Oct 4 2010 // Maryland’s highest court has upheld a state law that limits the amount of money people can receive for suffering in lawsuits. Judges on the Court of Appeals ruled against the parents of a 5-year-old boy who drowned...
Maryland Couple Sues over Bedbugs in Apartment
Sep 30 2010 // A Maryland couple has filed a $500,000 lawsuit over a bedbug infestation in an Ellicott City apartment. Orville and Rebecca Brown say they were forced to move out of their apartment and throw away most of their...
Maryland Court Upholds State Cap on Lawsuit Payouts
Sep 28 2010 // Maryland’s highest court has upheld a state law that limits the amount of money people can receive for suffering in lawsuits. Judges on the Court of Appeals ruled against the parents of a 5-year-old boy who drowned...
Settlement Reached in Maryland Bridge Crash Lawsuit
Sep 24 2010 // Attorneys have reached a settlement in a lawsuit over a fatal crash on the Bay Bridge in the summer of 2008. Fifty-seven-year-old John Short died after he swerved his tractor-trailer to avoid hitting Candy Baldwin’s...
People
Sep 6 2010 // Aon Consulting has named Shelly Blackstone as vice president of business development in its Richmond, Virginia office. In her new role, Blackstone will develop new products and services clients in Central and Southern...
IA&B Groups Elects New Officers and Directors
Aug 27 2010 // The Insurance Agents & Brokers, a partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania has elected new directors. Chairman David Rosenkilde, of ABCO/ICS Insurance Services Inc., in...
Westfield Expands in Maryland
Aug 12 2010 // Ohio-based Westfield Insurance said it has expanded its commercial operations in Maryland, with new accounts being serviced from the company’s Pennsylvania office. The firm said its existing surety accounts in...
Second Indictment Charges Maryland Broker with $2.5M Theft
Jul 23 2010 // A New Jersey grand jury has indicted a Maryland insurance broker, his companies and an accomplice on charges they conspired to steal $2.5 million from the Perth Amboy school system, the state’s attorney general...
Lundy Named VP at Maryland’s IWIF
Jul 2 2010 // Paulette Lundy has been promoted to vice president of Human Resources for Maryland’s Injured Worker Insurance Fund (IWIF), a workers’ compensation insurer. She previously served as director of human resources...
Maryland Jury Awards $2M in Inmate Highway Death
Jun 28 2010 // A Prince George’s County Circuit Court jury found the state of Maryland and a truck driver liable Thursday for roughly $2 million after the August 2007 death of an inmate who was killed while picking up trash along...
Physhield Insurance Exchange Approved by the State of Maryland
Jun 14 2010 // Physicians Healthcare Management Group, Inc.’s exclusive affiliate, Physhield Insurance Exchange, a Risk Retention Group, has received approval from the state of Maryland Insurance Administration to underwrite...
Insurers as Venture Capitalists? Maryland Pondering Tax Credit Plan
Jun 2 2010 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has a new proposal aimed at boosting the amount of venture capital for businesses like bioscience companies. The governor rolled out the proposal on Tuesday during a speech to academic,...
Maryland Suspends Insolvent Oklahoma Insurer
May 27 2010 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Beth Sammis has suspended the license of Oklahoma-based Imperial Casualty and Indemnity Co., after a district court in its home state ordered the company liquidated. Oklahoma regulators...
Maryland County Wants Camera Lawsuit Dismissed
May 18 2010 // Montgomery County, Maryland is trying to get rid of a lawsuit charging that the way it operates its speed camera program is illegal. The lawsuit says the county is breaking Maryland law by paying a contractor by the...
Business Moves
May 3 2010 // Foremost Foremost Insurance Group has launched its DistinctChoice Auto program in Connecticut. The auto program features increased limits, deductible options and coverages. The program also offers broad eligibility and...
Maryland Plaintiffs Awarded $400K for Contaminated Wells
Apr 26 2010 // A Maryland oil company has been found responsible for polluting wells in Carroll County with the toxic gasoline additive known as MTBE. A jury awarded nearly $400,000 in damages to four families who lived near a Jiffy Mart...
Hospitals Shifting Costs to Auto Insurance System, Study Finds
Apr 22 2010 // Low reimbursements from public health insurance programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, have prompted hospitals to shift costs to automobile insurance companies—raising auto injury claim costs and forcing auto...
Families of 2 Maryland Miners File Wrongful Death Suit
Apr 20 2010 // The families of two western Maryland coal miners who died in a 2007 highwall collapse near Barton are seeking $8 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. The families of Dale Jones and Michael Wilt filed the complaint Thursday...
Spring Brings New Crop of Fraud Laws in Northeast
Apr 19 2010 // Fraud bills are blooming like azalea bushes around the East this spring, and statehouses are rife with upside potential for substantive new fraud laws in 2010. This counters the recent logic that many state lawmakers are...
