Corporate Synergies Group (Corporate Synergies), a multi-state, full-service benefits consultant and brokerage firm, announced that the corporation has expanded into Columbia, Maryland. Corporate Synergies already have a significant client base in this region, and with the opening of the Maryland office they are able to expand their solutions to both existing and new customers. Corporate [...]

PSA Insurance and Financial Services of Hunt Valley announced that senior vice president Craig English has been selected as Chairman of the Insurance Roundtable of Baltimore.
Created in 1947, the Roundtable is comprised of 30 members including 20 agents from locally based insurance agencies and 10 representatives from insurance carriers. The group holds monthly meetings to [...]

Demotech, Inc. has downgraded the Financial Stability Rating® assigned to The Security Title Guaranty Company of Baltimore. Effective immediately, the Financial Stability Rating® is S, Substantial. This Financial Stability Rating® will be re-evaluated periodically based upon the ability of the Company to raise and infuse additional capital.
Financial Stability Ratings® of Title underwriters and Property and [...]

Tri-Continental Corporation held its 79th Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Meeting”) in Baltimore, Maryland. Stockholders voted in accordance with the recommendations of the Corporation’s Board of Directors on each of the three proposals at the Meeting.
Stockholders elected four Directors at the Meeting. The newly elected Directors are Kathleen A. Blatz, Pamela G. Carlton, Alison [...]

-ProspX, Inc., the leader in collaboration and automation solutions for the commercial insurance industry, today announced that Riggs, Counselman Michaels & Downes (RCM&D), a Business Insurance “Top 100” company, is rolling out ProspX to simplify and improve sales collaboration and knowledge share across its organization and partner network.
“We wanted a simple solution that would allow [...]

Care Improvement Plus, one of the nation’s largest chronic condition Special Needs Plans (SNPs), announced today that it has received top scores from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the evaluation of its structure and process measures. The measures are the first in a series of new requirements evaluating the performance of [...]

MetLife, the nation’s largest life insurer and leading provider of employee benefits, today announced the national expansion of its innovative retirewise® program. Launched in 2007, retirewise® is designed to help employees answer the big questions about retirement and serves as an enhancement to an employer’s existing benefits program. The retirewise® program was created to meet [...]

National Investment Managers Inc., a nationally-based and regionally-operated company, today announced that Woodside Capital Partners has purchased the Note and Warrants that Lehman Brothers held in National Investment Managers.
In December 2007, Lehman participated in a $27 million debt package, whereby Lehman and Woodside Capital Partners each offered National Investment Managers $6 million in subordinated debt, [...]

Insured Municipal Income Fund a closed-end management investment company organized as a Maryland corporation, is aware that a complaint has been filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City on October 23, 2008, by a small number of shareholder activists (the “Petitioners”), including Bulldog Investors General Partnership (“BIGP”), claiming to own twenty-five percent of [...]