On September 6, 2007, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley named Ralph S. Tyler as the new Maryland Insurance Commissioner. Tyler is an attorney with over 30 years of legal experience. He currently serves as Maryland’s Chief Legal Counsel and was City Solicitor from 2004 to 2007. For 10 years, he acted as the Chief of Litigation in the Office of Attorney General during which time he handled a landmark Fifth Amendment case, Baltimore City Department of Social Services v. Bouknight, where the United States Supreme Court held that a mother who is the custodian of a child pursuant to a court order may not invoke the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to resist an order of the juvenile court to produce the child.
According to Governor O’Malley, “Tyler has been a steadfast advocate for the working families” of Maryland. As Maryland’s Insurance Commissioner, he will oversee regulation of Maryland’s $26 billion insurance industry. Tyler will assume his new position as Insurance Commissioner on the governor’s inauguration day, January 17, 2008.
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