Regional news: Maryland
Workers’ compensation insurer’s founder passes torch to his first hire
The first employee hired by Eastern Insurance Holdings, a Lancaster, Pa.-based insurance company, has been named successor to its founder, Bruce M. Eckert.
A new judge sworn in to serve on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, the state’s second highest court, has experience with insurance.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware is affiliating with Highmark Inc., Pennsylvania’s largest health insurer, in a deal announced less than a week after its interest in finding a strategic partner was made public.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) said Oklahoma has become the 20th jurisdiction to use its State Based Systems (SBS).
States get millions to act against insurers’ ‘unreasonable rate hikes’
Federal authorities have granted more than $46 million to 45 states and Washington, D.C., to “improve the oversight of proposed health insurance premium increases.”
In what might become a trend, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware is looking to build a “strategic partnership” with another Blue Cross or Blue Shield affiliate in the face of federal health care reform.
Farmers New Century Insurance Co. of Aurora, Ill., paid a $10,000 fine to the Maryland Insurance Administration for failing to properly modify its water damage coverage to meet a new law that took effect Oct. 1, 2008.
The Dutch parent company of Transamerica Corp. says this month it will repay 500 million euros ($643 million) of the aid it received from that government in 2008.
EagleBank’s insurance subsidiary has entered into a deal to permit The Meltzer Group, a full-service insurance agency, to market insurance products to its business, personal and professional customers.
Westfield Insurance has added Maryland to its roster of states where it provides commercial insurance.
Obama to force insurers to give out birth control when employers won’t
Group representing 119 in Congress calls individual mandate illegal
Insurer fined for charging unapproved rates on students’ policies
Brokerage firm pays $3.3M for bad-mouthing insurance broker
Employee benefit offerings only as good as the discussion about them
Sponsors of 401(k)s adding features to boost participants’ investment
Mercury Insurance seeks agents, unveils new commercial auto product
Most, least expensive 2012 car models to insure announced
Two insurance agents allegedly stole $422,000 from family brokerage
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