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Insurers' 'fail first' policies put some patients at serious risk

U.S. attorney seeks court's help in determining owner of painting taken from Baltimore Museum of Art

Legislation under consideration in Annapolis would limit Md. health insurers' 'fail first' policies.

Robert W. Cos, a crane equipment safety consultant who raised awareness in the 1980s over the unsafe car practice called "clipping," died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at Stella Maris Hospice. The longtime Canton resident was 65.

Columnist Bob Ehrlich is wrong to say Obama is responsible for the rise in Social Security disability recipients.

What happens when the fire department beats down your door by accident? One Bel Air woman recently found out.

A celebration spanning 14 months is about to launch as Perry Hall High School celebrates its 50th year

Twenty years after passage of Family and Medical Leave Act, other nations do better at helping balance work and family.

Would Ben Carson approve cutting research at Hopkins to balance the federal budget?

Nearly 100 women fearing that a Johns Hopkins gynecologist secretly videotaped them contacted police Tuesday, and some potential victims reached out to private attorneys contemplating legal action.

Like it or not, the system in place now is one that is in terrible need of reorganization if for no other reason that the payment schemes are so goofy.

Maryland lawmakers face a fork in the road — allow MAIF policyholders to be ripped off or ease the cost of their car insurance

Hopkins surgeon's prayer breakfast remarks were not groundbreaking — or even especially confrontational

Charles L. Hayes, who was former secretary and senior vice president of Monumental Life Insurance Co., died Sunday of cancer at the Brookshire Hospice in Hillsborough, N.C. The former Towson resident was 85.

Harford County is one step closer to having defibrillators in all swimming pools, after the County Council introduced a bill requiring them Tuesday night.

Home insurance premiums throughout Maryland have been increasing. Here's why.

In light of the recent revival of a C. Milton Wright High School athlete with the help of an automated external defibrillator, Harford County Council President Billy Boniface said he wants to see more AEDs available for emergencies.

Crisfield, Md., is just now beginning to rebuild from the floods that accompanied Sandy — the worst experienced here in 80 years — but the Eastern Shore city faces big challenges as its leaders embark on the far more difficult task of preparing for future storms.

Government should get out of the flood-insurance business

Robert Reich says cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits is the wrong way to tame the debt

President Barack Obama is expected to soon nominate a successor to lead the Social Security Administration to replace the Bush-era appointee, but the White House is mum on who should take the helm at the nearly 75-year-old entitlement agency that faces voluminous backlogs, potential insolvency and a stack of critics.

Congress voted today to fund the federal flood insurance program with nearly $10 billion, an effort that would help some 800 Maryland families affected by superstorm Sandy.

Autistic children of federal workers in just 22 states — not including Maryland — will receive insurance coverage for behavioral treatment, under a decision by Office of Personnel Management to allow, rather than mandate, the coverage.

The public and the Harford County Council will get its first detailed explanation Tuesday of the county's plan to create a new department to oversee some aspects of the county's private fire and emergency medical services system.

Harford's fire and ambulance companies, realizing they're in need of a substantial amount of county funding, appear willing to do what they should have been doing all along: be financially up front with the county government, not to mention with the people they've been serving all these years.

Sometime this year, the BWI Marshall Airport fire and rescue department will begin billing people for ambulance rides to the hospital.

The Federal Housing Administration¿s aggressive efforts to increase homeownership helped lead to the foreclosure crisis.

A Baltimore insurance broker was sentenced to prison in New Jersey for stealing almost $2.6 million from the Perth Amboy Board of Education, New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced.

Robert B. Reich says we are ignoring looming crises in child poverty, boomer health care and climate change

Arthur J. Gutman, a retired insurance broker and former H.L. Mencken Society president, died of respiratory failure Nov. 27 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The former North Baltimore resident was 101.

A Bethesda-based insurance company that gained advantage over competitors by having its employees inappropriately access a federal Medicare database has agreed to pay the federal government $3 million to avoid criminal prosecution, according to the Maryland U.S. attorney's office.

Lawmakers' early decision to back a state health insurance exchange has paid off now that Obamacare is the law of the land

Consumer Federation of America says Congress will need to authorize more money to handle flood insurance claims.

There's a good chance during open enrollment this fall that you will be offered a high-deductible insurance plan with a savings account — if you haven't already been nudged into one.

Maryland's insurance commissioner tells homeowners to vet contractors before signing contracts

Maryland's insurance commissioner tells homeowners to vet contractors before signing contracts

Perhaps the only question more puzzling than who stole a Renoir landscape from the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1951 is who owns the painting now.

Flood insurance info for Superstorm Sandy