Latest Maryland Headlines
All the headlines from our Maryland Topic Page, ordered by recency.
St. Paul Travelers Agrees to Fund Winding Down of Maryland Urban Insurer American Skyline
Mar 22 2005 // Having decided last year to end its support after four years and $30 million, The St. Paul Travelers Cos. has now agreed to funnel funds one last time into a Maryland insurer it helped start as a model to serve urban...
Main Street Matters
Mar 21 2005 // New York is one of the worst; New Jersey is also poor; Virginia remains among the best; Massachusetts and Maryland are looking better and better; Connecticut is holding steady, while Pennsylvania has some catching up to...
Western General Enters Maryland Auto Market
Mar 8 2005 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr. today welcomed to Maryland Western General Insurance Company, a California-domiciled, property and casualty insurer, to the state. Western General will market...
Consultant Hails Md. Gov. Ehrlich’s Med-Mal Bill
Feb 25 2005 // A consultant hired by the Ehrlich administration estimates Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s new medical malpractice insurance bill would save doctors about six times as much money as the bill that was enacted over his veto by...
Carefirst Will Absorb Maryland Premium Tax
Feb 23 2005 // CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has announced that it will absorb the 2 percent premium tax passed by the Maryland legislature in January to help pay for medical malpractice insurance assistance rather than pass along the...
Aide to Maryland Commissioner Resigns After Admitting Spreading False Rumors About Baltimore Mayor
Feb 10 2005 // Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley on Tuesday accused Gov. Robert Ehrlich administration of spreading false rumors that he had an extramarital affair. Hours later, Ehrlich fired a longtime employee. The mayor, a...
Maryland Commissioner’s Task Force to Study Urban Auto Insurance Rates
Feb 10 2005 // Maryland Insurance Administration Commissioner Alfred W. Redmer, Jr. announced today the formation of a task force to study and review auto insurance rates in urban areas of Maryland. “As a former legislator who...
Md. HMOs Hike Rates to Cover Med-Mal Tax
Jan 27 2005 // As some had predicted, health insurers in Maryland plan to raise their rates to cover a newly enacted two percent tax on HMO premiums. The tax was a focal point of a bitter battle between Gov. Robert Ehrlich and state...
Md. Democrats Hit Redmer for HMO Rate Hike OK; Redmer Points to Legislators’ Approval of Tax
Jan 27 2005 // Maryland Democratic legislative leaders have castigated Insurance Commissioner Alfred Redmer for his blanket approval of a 2 percent increase in HMO premiums, saying he is playing politics with the issue to advance the...
MD. LAWMAKERS OVERRIDE VETO:
Jan 24 2005 // Insurance companies, claiming that the measure would have only minimal effect on insurance prices for doctors, got their wish as Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich (R) vetoed a reform bill passed earlier this month by lawmakers....
Tower Group Expanding to States Throughout East Coast, Including N.J., Conn., Mass. and Md.
Jan 18 2005 // Tower Group, Inc. announced that it entered into a stock purchase agreement today to acquire North American Lumber Insurance Company, a shell company with 17 state licenses, nine of which are active in the following...
New Md. Medical Liability Law, Upcoming Issues Reportedly Concerning Insurers
Jan 13 2005 // Although disappointed that the Maryland General Assembly chose to override Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s veto of a controversial medical liability reform bill, insurers are reportedly equally concerned about other challenges...
Maryland Lawmakers Override Veto of Med-Mal Bill
Jan 11 2005 // The Maryland House and Senate overrode Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s veto of medical malpractice bill that includes a 2 percent premium tax on HMOs. The $64 million estimated revenues from the tax in the first year will be...
Insurers Urge Veto of Maryland Med-Mal Measure
Jan 7 2005 // Insurance companies, claiming that the measure will have only minimal effect on insurance prices for doctors, are urging Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich (R) to veto a reform bill passed last week by lawmakers. The American...
Maryland Docs Urge Gov. Ehrlich to Sign Med-Mal Bill Despite Its Tort Shortcomings
Jan 5 2005 // Imploring lawmakers to follow the physician’s oath to “first, do no harm,” a coalition of doctors said that a medical malpractice reform bill passed last week should become law, despite the bill’s...
Maryland Hunts for Motives Behind State’s Largest Residential Arson
Jan 3 2005 // An arson that destroyed part of a Greenbelt, Maryland-area development with many black homeowners was “an effort to wipe out a community” and authorities are “very carefully investigating” whether...
INSURERS BACK MD. CLAIMS LAW:
Jan 3 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has filed an amicus brief before the Maryland Court of Appeals, urging the court to affirm a lower court decision upholding a law, in existence since 1872, that...
DEL. COURT WEIGHS CAREFIRST:
Jan 3 2005 // Health care insurer CareFirst has asked the Delaware Supreme Court to overturn an order that dissolved its affiliation with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware. CareFirst attorney Harding Drane Jr. maintained Insurance...
Maryland Lawmakers Agree on Med-Mal Bill But Governor Vows Veto Due to Tax Feature
Dec 31 2004 // The Maryland General Assembly, meeting into the early morning hours Thursday, approved a medical malpractice insurance reform package that Gov. Robert Ehrlich said he would veto because of a dispute over a tax on HMO...
Maryland Gov. Ehrlich’s Med-Mal Proposal Unveiled; Special Legislative Session Gets Underway Today
Dec 28 2004 // Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., on Dec. 22 provided Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael E. Busch a copy of the medical malpractice legislation that will be introduced during special...
