NEWS
By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore Sun | August 26, 2011
A Baltimore pastor who paid a hit man $50,000 in church funds to kill someone for life insurance payouts bought similar indemnity policies on his boyfriend when the pair were fighting, along with contracts on the man's mother and daughter, he testified Friday in city Circuit Court. He canceled them after time, however, "because we were getting along," he said. The admission was one of many confessions Kevin Pushia offered from the witness stand during the trial of his alleged accomplices, brothers James "Omar" Clea and Kareem Clea.
BUSINESS
By Liz F. Kay | July 12, 2011
Last week we shared the list of lawyers sanctioned by the Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission for our Naughty Business of the Week . This week we turn to another state agency: the Maryland Insurance Administration. Insurance agents are now referred to as "producers" in the state statutes, so here's the link to the summary list of producers sanctioned in 2011 . If you spot a familiar name, the documents detailing their offenses are listed on the MIA's orders page under "producer enforcement" .
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | September 4, 2010
W. Riley "Skip" Whorton, a semiretired financial planner and life insurance agent, died Aug. 27 of leukemia at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Timonium resident was 68. Mr. Whorton was born on Long Island, N.Y., and then moved with his family to Whortonsville, N.C., where his father worked in the family seafood business. In 1950, he moved to Ellicott City when his father and uncle moved the business to the old Wholesale Fish Market on Market Place in downtown Baltimore.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen | April 8, 2010
Benedict L. "Ben" Rosenberg, a longtime insurance executive who served aboard a Liberty ship during World War II, died Monday of a brain tumor at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center & Hospital. He was 89. Mr. Rosenberg, the son of an insurance agent and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised near Lake Ashburton. After graduating in 1938 from Forest Park High School, Mr. Rosenberg apprenticed at an insurance firm where he learned the property and casualty insurance business.
HEALTH
By Meredith Cohn | meredith.cohn@baltsun.com | February 3, 2010
While legislation calling for the creation of exchanges where the uninsured can easily shop for health coverage has been stalled in Congress and isn't expected this year in the Maryland General Assembly, insurance agents and brokers are girding for the debate. Major insurance trade groups in Maryland say the state doesn't need a new program, like the one Massachusetts created ahead of federal reform to help provide universal coverage there. Maryland's private sector is equipped to inform and absorb the state's uninsured on its own, according to a report to be released today by the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors of Maryland and the Maryland Association of Health Underwriters.
NEWS
By Nick Madigan | nick.madigan@baltsun.com | November 25, 2009
Two women who work for a State Farm insurance agent in Randallstown sued him and his corporate employer Tuesday, saying he repeatedly subjected them to sexual harassment, vile insults and a hostile work environment. Kristi Mitchell and Veronica Cobb are seeking at least $4 million in punitive damages from the agent, Obie Sorrell, and State Farm Annuity and Life Insurance Co., a Fortune 500 company based in Bloomington, Ill., that has 17,000 agents and 68,000 employees. Mitchell has been an office manager for State Farm since February 2002, and Cobb was hired in May as a customer-service manager.