Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
People
Apr 23 2007 // Doug Eden has joined Main Street America Group as senior vice president, field operations. Eden will be a member of the company’s senior management team based at its corporate headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., and...
Phelan to Head Maryland Workers’ Comp Writer, IWIF
Apr 5 2007 // The board of directors of IWIF Workers’ Compensation Insurance has appointed of Thomas Phelan, CPA, to the position of president and chief executive officer. Phelan previously served as IWIF’s executive vice...
Maryland Assembly OKs Measure to Shield Agents from Notice Liability
Apr 4 2007 // Maryland insurance agents are applauding the General Assembly for relieving them of liability in the delivery of notices about flood and homeowners insurance. The Senate and House of Delegates unanimously passed companion...
W. Va. Agency Affirms Insurance Contract Award to Md. Firm
Mar 28 2007 // The Public Employees Insurance Agency in West Virginia has denied two protests of its decision to award a multimillion-dollar management contract to a Maryland company. Humana Inc. and Highmark Health Insurance Co. filed...
Companies Protest W. Va. Public Health Contract Award to Md. Firm
Mar 23 2007 // West Virginia’s selection of a Maryland company to manage a new health insurance program for retired public workers is being challenged by two other companies that sought the work. The Public Employees Insurance...
Md. Senate Committee Nixes Bill Forcing Insurers to Write on Coast
Mar 22 2007 // Maryland has decided not to require home insurers to cover all areas of the state, even coastal areas. The state Senate was considering a bill to require the insurance after state’s second-largest home insurer —...
Maryland Department’s Lininger Leaves to Form Lobbying Firm
Mar 19 2007 // Brett Lininger, formerly director of government relations for the Maryland Insurance Administration, has left that state agency to form his own government relations firm called Lininger & Associates. His office is...
FDA Warns Against Eating Raw Texas Oysters After Virus Outbreak
Mar 5 2007 // The Food and Drug Administration says consumers should avoid eating raw oysters harvested from San Antonio Bay in Texas because more than two dozen people in Maryland became ill last month. The FDA said 25 people developed...
Md. Court Reinstates Class Action on Purely Economic, Not Physical, Injury
Mar 5 2007 // A potentially far-reaching ruling by the Maryland Court of Appeals reinstates a class action suit against several U.S. automakers even though the plaintiffs were not injured by allegedly defective seat-backs. Plaintiffs...
Maryland mulls how to keep property insurers on coast
Feb 26 2007 // Alarmed that homeowners on Maryland’s coasts may one day be cut off from home insurance, state lawmakers are mulling new rules prohibiting insurers from pulling out of areas they deem risky. But insurers met with...
Declarations
Feb 26 2007 // Brady in court “At that moment I wasn’t sure what was happening, if that was normal or not normal.” New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady testifying that he watched his mentor, Charlie Weis, move in...
News Currents
Feb 25 2007 // Maryland mulls how to keep property insurers on coast Alarmed that homeowners on Maryland’s coasts may one day be cut off from home insurance, state lawmakers are mulling new rules prohibiting insurers from pulling...
Declarations
Feb 25 2007 // Brady in court “At that moment I wasn’t sure what was happening, if that was normal or not normal.” New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady testifying that he watched his mentor, Charlie Weis, move in...
Former Md. Insurance Chief Picked to Head Public Utilities Panel
Feb 21 2007 // Gov. Martin O’Malley nominated former Maryland Insurance Commissioner Steven Larsen to head the Public Service Commission on Friday, tapping a man with a reputation for standing up for consumers’ interests but...
Maryland Mulls Ways to Keep Insurers from Abandoning Coastal Properties
Feb 15 2007 // Alarmed that homeowners on Maryland’s coasts may one day be cut off from home insurance, state lawmakers are mulling new rules prohibiting insurers from pulling out of areas they deem risky. But insurers met with...
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A Computer Hacker Strikes Every 39 Seconds, Warns U. of Md. Study
Feb 7 2007 // Are hackers trying to get into your computer right now? And what are they up to? A study by the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering is one of the first to quantify the near-constant rate of...
Maryland Told It Must Comply with Federal Real ID Driver’s License Act
Feb 1 2007 // Maryland must comply with the federal Real ID Act, Transportation Secretary nominee John D. Porcari told the Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The Real ID Act mandates that states verify documents proving an applicant is a...
People
Jan 28 2007 // Lloyd’s of London announced that Julian James, its director-worldwide markets, will be leaving at the end of April to join Lockton International. James has been responsible for all Lloyd’s commercial activities...
Previously-Rejected Cell Phone Ban on Redial in Maryland Legislature
Jan 25 2007 // A cell phone ban for Maryland drivers has been considered — and rejected — many times by state lawmakers. However, two new plans before lawmakers have some asking if this is the year Maryland will join Washington, D.C....
