All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 23 2014 // Clark Insurance, an employee-owned independent insurance agency with offices in Maine and New Hampshire, announced Bret Cote has been promoted to vice president. Cote is based in the Manchester, N.H., office. Cote has...
Jan 15 2014 // Risk Strategies Co., a national insurance brokerage and risk management firm based in Boston, announced it has acquired DataRisk LLC, a Portsmouth, N.H.-based risk management consulting firm offering risk management and...
Jan 13 2014 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court has upheld an order for the Local Government Center to return $33 million in surplus risk-pool funds to participating cities and towns and restore $17 million it transferred out of its...
Jan 2 2014 // BUA, LLC, a managing general agency based in Portsmouth, N.H., has agreed to purchase Weather Insurance Agency of East Setauket, N.Y. BUA said Weather Insurance Agency’s weather coverage would complement BUA’s...
Dec 31 2013 // A union representing New Hampshire firefighters hopes a new state law will encourage homeowners to call for help if needed during an emergency. A law that takes effect Jan. 1 would limit the liability a homeowner would...
Dec 30 2013 // Under new laws in New Hampshire taking effect with the start of the new year, people can drive faster along a rural section of Interstate 93 in New Hampshire and drink an hour later at local bars with the community’s...
Dec 10 2013 // The state of New Hampshire is expanding its highway safety patrol, which helps stranded motorists.The patrol is now operating in Nashua, Merrimack, Bedford, Hooksett and Concord. The expansion, which started last Thursday,...
Nov 15 2013 // The New Hampshire Local Government Center is asking the state Supreme Court to reverse an administrative order that it refund $52 million to cities and towns it insures through its risk pool. The 2012 order found the LGC...
Oct 18 2013 // New Hampshire’s insurance department this week approved the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s advisory loss cost and rating values filing, to be effective Jan. 1, 2014. NCCI filed its request in...
Sep 30 2013 // Allstate Insurance Company announced last week that the company is planning to hire new insurance agents in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. The insurer would hire approximately 455 new...
Sep 30 2013 // New Hampshire independent agent Thomas J. Minkler has been inaugurated as the new chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”), with David Walker as...
Sep 5 2013 // New Hampshire’s attorney general is suing Shell Oil Co. seeking reimbursement of $2.4 million in cleanup costs, saying the company did not disclose that it had insurance coverage for those costs.Attorney General...
Aug 22 2013 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled that intoxication must be determined to be the cause of an accident for it to be a defense against a workers’ compensation claim.The court sent Thomas Phillips’ case...
Aug 13 2013 // Satellite Agency Network Group Inc., an alliance of independent property/casualty insurance agencies in the Northeast, created two new management positions within their Hampton, N.H., headquarters: chief operating officer...
Aug 9 2013 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) recently delivered a workers compensation loss cost filing to the New Hampshire Insurance Department. Based upon its review of the most recently available data, NCCI...
Aug 6 2013 // The New Hampshire insurance department announced on Aug. 2 that it has found a way around Republican legislative efforts to block New Hampshire from spending a $5 million grant educating consumers about the federal health...
Jun 17 2013 // New Hampshire’s Executive Council has unanimously confirmed the reappointment of Roger Sevigny to another five-year term as the state’s insurance commissioner.New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan nominated Sevigny...
Jun 6 2013 // New Hampshire’s Executive Council has unanimously confirmed on Wednesday the reappointment of Roger Sevigny to another five-year term as the state’s insurance commissioner.New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner...
Jun 4 2013 // The Northern United Agents Alliance (NUAA) announced the addition of Kinney Insurance Agency, based in South Hero, Vt., as the newest member of the alliance. For more than 25 years, Kinney Insurance Agency, with office...
May 31 2013 // Cross Insurance, an insurance brokerage and subsidiary of Bangor, Maine-based Cross Financial Corp., announced the hiring of Mike Guarino as a producer in the firm’s Manchester, N.H. office. Guarino has been in the...