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Maryland Career Notes: Wilson earns his AFIS designation; other news
Jason Wilson of the Avon-Dixon Agency, headquartered in Easton, Md., earned the Agribusiness and Farm Insurance Specialist (AFIS) designation for knowledge of specialized farm and agribusiness risks.
Capital I Day will be held March 18 at the Hilton Hotel (formerly DoubleTree) at 1750 Rockville Pike in Rockville, Md., from 7 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
House’s planned flood insurance reforms ‘good start,’ but not ‘perfect’
A draft proposal to reform the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is a “good start,” although it is not a “perfect piece of legislation,” experts said in a teleconference March 7.
Md., D.C. among worst in region, nation for auto insurance rates
Two states in the mid-Atlantic region had car insurance rates that were among the highest in a recent survey from InsWeb, an online insurance seller.
The Maryland Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hold a public hearing on a proposal to exceed the provisions of the federal health reform overhaul by creating a single-payer system in the state.
Local Red Cross chapters in Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and North Carolina are among the recipients of $1.3 million in money from the Nationwide Insurance Foundation.
The Maryland General Assembly has scheduled a March 9 public hearing on a bill that would take a far more aggressive approach toward health reform in the state than passed at the federal level last year.
A public adjuster from Glenwood, Md., was fined $4,000 by Pennsylvania insurance regulators for wrongly saying he was a lawyer in that state.
A third judge has ruled that the federal health reform law passed last year is constitutional, adding further confusion and complication to the legal status of the law.
Maryland General Assembly considering ‘millionaire’s tax’ extension
A coalition of Democratic senators in the Maryland General Assembly have proposed $827 million in tax increases, including the restoration of the state’s so-called millionaire’s tax, in their Maryland First plan.
Lautenberg, Rubio want to cap TRICARE fees for military retirees
Health care cost at all-time high, despite lower rate of increase
Most insurance agencies seeing better results than last year
Life insurers sell shares in British tech firm to Pa. company
FINRA estimate for IA SROs excludes monetary, administrative details
Most insurance agencies seeing better results than last year
Pa. broker adds $181,000 commission to $2.1M false insurance invoice
A.M. Best rates Pa.-based insurer’s outlook ‘negative’
With five-year plan stuck, House passes new short-term NFIP extension
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