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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Massachusetts, Washington, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey — are leading the United States’ transformation into a global, entrepreneurial and knowledge- and innovation-based New Economy, according to “The 2008 State New Economy Index,” released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). The report is being released during Global [...]

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 [...]

Federated National Insurance Company (”Federated National”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of 21st Century Holding Company insurance holding company, today announced that it received approval from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (”OIR”) to write commercial residential property business in the state of FloridaMichael H. Braun, President of Federated National and Chief Executive Officer of 21st [...]

Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd announced through its U.S.-based Darwin subsidiary, a new program with Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) Facilities, Inc. in conjunction with the rollout of Darwin’s nationwide standard market Lawyers Professional Liability (LPL) product. JLT will be underwriting on behalf of Darwin on an admitted basis in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, [...]

The TriZetto Group, Inc. announced that Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP) and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) were the winners of the first annual Integrated Healthcare Management (IHM) Power Awards in the categories of Operational Excellence and Innovation, respectively. The awards honor innovative customers that are demonstrating tangible success in the pursuit of IHM, the systematic application [...]