Marta Harting is a leading legislative and regulatory attorney who represents a wide range of business interests before the Maryland General Assembly as well as the state’s regulatory agencies. She is a recognized pundit on administrative law and public law litigation.

Ms. Harting has an active practice representing healthcare providers, including hospitals, nursing homes, and physician groups in certificate of need matters. She has appeared in rate setting proceedings before the Public Service Commission and the Health Services Cost Review Commission and has represented public utilities and other entities in certificate of public convenience and necessity proceedings before the Maryland Public Service Commission.

She has served as lead legislative counsel to a variety of insurance, health care and other business entities over the last fifteen years. She represents insurance companies and health maintenance organizations before the Maryland Insurance Administration on a variety of regulatory matters, including market conduct examinations, financial examinations, rate and form filings, and other compliance issues.

Ms. Harting regularly handles matters before Maryland's Health Care Commission, Health Services Cost Review Commission, Insurance Administration, Public Service Commission, Department of Licensing, and Labor Regulation Financial Regulation Division, as well as the Comptroller of Maryland Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division.

She was centrally involved in all major insurance reform legislation passed by the Maryland General Assembly for the last 15 years, including competitive rating for auto insurance and small employer health insurance reform. 

Ms. Harting has also been a prominent trial and appellate lawyer, arguing four cases before Maryland’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, and handling numerous other matters before lower level appellate courts.

Two of her appellate victories had significant impact on insurance law. In 2006, the Court of Appeals reversed a lower appellate decision invalidating Maryland’s widely used “named driver exclusion” in commercial automobile liability policies.

She currently serves as Secretary on the Board of the Maryland Food Bank. In 2004, Ms. Harting was given a Distinguished Service Award by the National Federation of the Blind in Maryland for her pro bono service to that organization in state budget appropriations. Ms. Harting is a 2002 graduate of The Leadership Program of the Greater Baltimore Committee, where she served as a member of their board.