The Maryland State Symposium, formerly the Maryland State EXPO, will be held May 18-19 at the Westin hotel in Annapolis, Md.

About 100 Maryland health insurance agents and brokers lobbied members of the Maryland General Assembly today (Feb. 8) for a continued role for the private sector – and them – when the state’s health insurance exchange starts in 2014.

Paul Dougherty, a past president of the Maryland chapter of the National Association of Insurance & Financial Advisors, was recently elected to the trade group’s board of trustees.

Maryland’s federally mandated health insurance exchange should be a public, government-run agency with a board tasked with overseeing its operations, according to a state task force.