Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Investigation Continues into Burning of Md. $750K Vacant House
Jan 3 2008 // Maryland fire marshals say they’re still investigating the burning of a vacant house in Washington County worth $750,000. Fire marshal Ed Ernst told The (Hagerstown) Herald-Mail Monday morning that they still...
Maryland Employers with Illegal Workers Could Be Fined
Jan 3 2008 // Frederick County, Md. Commissioner Charles Jenkins is calling for penalties for local businesses that hire illegal immigrants. He is talking to the county attorney about a plan to audit local businesses that receive...
Maryland County Pulls Plug on Earthquake Hotline
Dec 31 2007 // Maryland’s Howard County has pulled the plug on its earthquake hotline. County Fire Department Captain Ryan Miller says the county now has other ways for residents to report and receive information during a disaster....
Top Insurance Stories in 2007 in East
Dec 31 2007 // New leaders tackled old issues and the region battled fire and rain. 1. No day at the beach Insurance markets for coastal properties continued to challenge insurers, agents, policymakers and property owners, despite an...
Bond Insurer ACA Financial Submits to Maryland Regulatory Control
Dec 27 2007 // In more fallout from the troubled credit market, ACA Capital Holdings Inc. has agreed to let the Maryland Insurance Administration and Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler assume control of much of its bond insurance division, ACA...
Md. Insurer to Return $100 Million to Doctors, State
Dec 23 2007 // A major medical liability insurer will return nearly $100 million to the state of Maryland and local doctors, in a deal announced by state officials. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Insurance Commissioner Ralph S....
Fire Damages Maryland Shopping Center
Dec 18 2007 // Fire officials say a fire in Mill Creek, Md. has caused heavy damage at a strip shopping center on Kirkwood Highway. The fire west of Mill Creek was reported shortly after midnight Monday in the 5900 block of Kirkwood...
Medical Mutual Returning $100M to Maryland, Local Physicians
Dec 17 2007 // A major medical liability insurer will return nearly $100 million to the state of Maryland and local doctors, in a deal announced by state officials. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Insurance Commissioner Ralph S....
Maryland Names Sammis Deputy Insurance Commissioner
Nov 7 2007 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler has appointed Elizabeth Sammis as deputy insurance commissioner. Sammis is currently vice president for Government Affairs, Mid-Atlantic Region, for United Healthcare, and she...
Md.-Pa.-Del. Agents Group Highlights Delaware Merger, Elects Officers
Oct 26 2007 // The Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group held its annual meeting Oct. 17, marking a year that included the inception of the Delaware Association of Insurance Agents & Brokers Inc. into its organization. The...
Md. Workplace Fatalities Rises in 2006
Oct 24 2007 // Statistics show the number of fatal work injuries in Maryland rose to 105 last year, an increase of 10 from the year before. The figure also represents the highest annual total since the U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Maryland Malpractice Insurer Told Its $69 Million Dividend Belongs to State
Oct 9 2007 // Maryland’s largest medical malpractice insurer should return its entire $68.6 million dividend to the state, instead of the $32.5 million it has proposed as part of its exit from a subsidy program designed to lower...
Md. Task Forces Hears From Industry on Need for Stronger Structures
Oct 4 2007 // Opportunities exist in the public and private sectors to increase the disaster resistance of homes and businesses and contribute to the overall health of Maryland’s insurance market, says Harvey Ryland, president and...
Maryland’s Shore Bancshares Acquires Marine Insurance Agency, Wholesaler
Oct 2 2007 // Shore Bancshares, Inc. , parent company of three independent community banks and two retail insurance agencies serving the Delmarva peninsula, has closed two new acquisitions including a retail agency specializing in...
Maryland Jury Awards $4 Million in Boy’s Drowning at Country Club
Sep 27 2007 // An jury in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County has awarded the parents of a five-year-old boy who drowned at Crofton Country Club last year more than $4 million in damages. The jury found Hunt Valley-based DRD Pool...
News Currents
Sep 24 2007 // Tyler named Maryland commissioner Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley named attorney and long-time advisor Ralph S. Tyler to be the state’s insurance commissioner responsible for overseeing the regulation of...
From the Big Apple to the Corn State
Sep 24 2007 // From the executive office of the Greater New York Mutual Insurance Companies on Madison Avenue in the heart of New York City, Warren Heck, chairman and chief executive officer, can see Illinois. “It’s...
Tyler named Maryland commissioner
Sep 24 2007 // Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley named attorney and long-time advisor Ralph S. Tyler to be the state’s insurance commissioner responsible for overseeing the regulation of Maryland’s $26 billion insurance...
Md. Insurer Says It No Longer Needs Malpractice Premium Subsidy
Sep 19 2007 // Maryland’s largest medical malpractice insurer plans to leave a state premium subsidy program and return some of the money it has received, saying it no longer needs the subsidy to stabilize premiums for doctors...
Maryland Puts Hold on $68 Million Medical Mutual Dividend
Sep 14 2007 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler wants to review a large medical malpractice insurance dividend payment before it goes out. Newly-appointed Tyler said he will hold a hearing next month to review a plan by...
