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Maryland Auto Insurance Statement Regarding Healthy Holly
BALTIMORE (April 2, 2019) – In response to media inquiries, the Maryland Auto Insurance Fund reviewed its records and discovered that the organization’s former Executive Director authorized the issuance of a check in the amount of $7,500 “payable to Healthy Holly, LLC, 326 St. Paul Place, Suite 300, Baltimore, MD […]
RELEASE: Board of Trustees Appoints Mark McCurdy as Acting Executive Director of Maryland Auto Insurance
BALTIMORE (July 23, 2015) – Chair, Karenthia A. Barber announced that the Board of Trustees appointed Mark McCurdy as Acting Executive Director of Maryland Auto Insurance. Ms. Barber announced Mr. McCurdy’s appointment as Acting Executive Director earlier this week. “I was overwhelmed with the employees’ enthusiastic response to Mark’s appointment. […]
RELEASE: Maryland Auto Insurance Drives New Identity
BALTIMORE, Md (June 20, 2015) -It’s a law that all drivers must carry auto insurance, and yet thousands of Maryland drivers are ineligible for standard insurance each year due to lapses in coverage, and issues with credit history or driving record. With an estimated 400,000 uninsured vehicles on Maryland roads, Maryland […]
RELEASE: Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund Announces 2015 Move of Headquarters to Baltimore’s McHenry Row
ANNAPOLIS, Md (June 9, 2014) – The Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF) announced Monday its plan to relocate the company’s headquarters to McHenry Row in Baltimore’s Locust Point neighborhood. MAIF will occupy two new floors to be built atop Building 2 of the existing Phillip’s Seafood headquarters at 1215 East […]
Planit Named Agency of Record for Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund
ANNAPOLIS (May 6, 2014) — The Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF) is pleased to announce the selection of Baltimore-based marketing firm, Planit, as its agency of record. Planit will develop a bold strategy to reinvigorate the 42-year-old brand along with an integrated marketing campaign to amplify awareness of MAIF and to […]
MAIF Installment Payment Option Launches, Sells First Policies
Annapolis, MD – October 2, 2013 – It took almost a decade of discussion and consideration by the General Assembly, but the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund’s (MAIF) Installment Payment Plan, passed and signed into law earlier this year, went online Tuesday morning, October 1, giving MAIF policyholders access to an interest-free […]
MAIF Executive Director's Letter to the Editor on Lowering Insurance Costs
The following letter to the editor from MAIF Executive Director M. Kent Krabbe appeared in the print and online editions of the Baltimore Sun on September 12, 2013. As executive director of the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund, I applaud The Sun’s editorial, “Relief for Baltimore drivers” (Sept. 3) and share the […]
Maryland General Assembly Passes SB930, Allowing the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund to Offer Installment Payment Option for Policyholders
Annapolis, MD – April 24, 2013 – In the coming weeks, Governor Martin O’Malley is expected to sign Senate Bill 930 into law, allowing the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF), for the first time in its forty-year history, to accept installment payments for insurance premiums. “This legislation is a victory […]
The Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund to Implement MajescoMastek's STG Policy Administration and STG Billing
Modernization of MAIF’s core policy administration and billing operation with MajescoMastek is designed to reduce costs, streamline processes, and allow for expansion of services New York, NY, March 13, 2013 – MajescoMastek, the provider of Insurance Software + IT Services to over 100 carriers, and the U.S. subsidiary of global […]
MAIF Insurance Rates and Maryland's Civil Marriage Protection Act
Annapolis, Md. – December 12, 2012 – The Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF) responded today to the passing of Maryland’s Civil Marriage Protection Act. In a bulletin to the insurance providers responsible for writing MAIF policies, the Fund stated that, “In keeping with the legislation passed by the Maryland General Assembly, as […]