Latest New Hampshire Headlines

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Forklift Accident Kills Man at New Hampshire Recycling Plant

Sep 21 2009 // Fire department officials say a worker died in a forklift accident as employees prepared to leave for the day at a metals recycling plant in Concord, N.H. An emergency call at about 5 p.m. Tuesday indicated the employee...

New Hampshire GOP Asks Governor to Work on Budget Changes

Sep 4 2009 // New Hampshire Republican legislators want Gov. John Lynch to work with them on budget changes should the state lose its claim to $110 million in a medical malpractice fund.Republican legislators held a news conference...

New Hampshire Man Convicted of Insurance Fraud

Aug 28 2009 // A Strafford, New Hampshire, man has been convicted of staging a burglary at his home in order to collect insurance money. The attorney general’s office says 28-year-old Bradford Sargent reported the burglary to...

New Hampshire Court Sets October Date for Malpractice Fund Arguments

Aug 19 2009 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments on Oct. 15 in a dispute between the state and medical providers over $110 million in a malpractice fund. The state had asked the court to expedite the appeal....

New Hampshire Challenged on Speedy Malpractice Fund Appeal

Aug 13 2009 // A group of medical providers is challenging New Hampshire’s request for a speedy appeals process in a dispute over a malpractice fund. Lawyers for Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia and other policyholders of...

New Hampshire Appeals Ruling Denying Malpractice Fund Claim

Aug 6 2009 // New Hampshire has appealed a lower court ruling denying its claim to a $110 million surplus in a fund that underwrites malpractice insurance.The state counted on $65 million of the money to help balance the budget in the...

Highway-Crash Suit Focuses on New Hampshire Police Reports

Aug 3 2009 // A Canadian trucking company that is suing the state of New Hampshire over winter road conditions that led to the Interstate 93 traffic death of a 6-year-old boy says the state is withholding police accident reports in an...

New Hampshire Judge Rejects State’s Claim on Malpractice Fund

Jul 31 2009 // A New Hampshire judge has rejected the state’s claim on a $110 million surplus in a fund that underwrites malpractice insurance.The state counted on $65 million of the money to help balance the budget in the fiscal...

New Hampshire Man Fights Insurance Company in Family Lawsuit

Jul 30 2009 // The owner of the property where a New Hampshire man was murdered is at odds with his insurance company over a wrongful death lawsuit from the man’s family. Michael Connors owned the Deerfield horse farm where Jack...

Ruling Expected Soon on Tapping New Hampshire Malpractice Fund

Jul 29 2009 // A judge is expected to rule this week whether New Hampshire can take $110 million from a malpractice insurance fund to balance the state budget. Judge Kathleen McGuire froze the fund last month until its ownership is...

New Hampshire Steam Plant Gets Big OSHA Fines

Jul 24 2009 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed fines of $104,200 against a New Hampshire steam generating plant following a January fire in which a worker was burned. OSHA says in the incident,...

Highway-Crash Suit Focuses on New Hampshire Police Reports

Jul 21 2009 // A Canadian trucking company suing the state of New Hampshire over winter road conditions that led to the Interstate 93 traffic death of a 6-year-old boy says the state is withholding police accident reports in an attempt...

Healthcare Providers: New Hampshire Can’t Take $110M Surplus

Jun 22 2009 // A coalition of more than 200 healthcare providers and policyholders has gone to court, saying the state has no right to take a $110 million surplus from a New Hampshire fund that underwrites malpractice insurance and use...

Lack of Waiver Voids Coverage for New Hampshire Climbing Gym

Jun 15 2009 // An insurer can deny liability coverage to a New Hampshire climbing gym because it failed to get a waiver from a climber who was later seriously hurt, the state’s Supreme Court has ruled.The decision centered on a...

Parents of New Hampshire Victim Seek Improved Construction Safety

Jun 5 2009 // A year after a New Hampshire man was killed on an Interstate 495 construction job, his parents are campaigning for new rules to improve workplace safety. Robert Augeri of Londonderry died last June on his 31st birthday...

Lack of Waiver Voids Coverage for New Hampshire Climbing Gym

Jun 1 2009 // An insurer can deny liability coverage to a New Hampshire climbing gym because it failed to get a waiver from a climber who was later seriously hurt, the state’s Supreme Court has ruled.The decision centered on a...

Former New Hampshire Insurance Agent Sentenced to Prison

May 20 2009 // A New Hampshire state employee has been sentenced to two years in federal prison and pay back more than $164,000 to clients she defrauded in her previous job as an insurance agent. Raye Ellen Douville of Bedford, who had...

Business Moves

May 18 2009 // Phenix Mutual, Motorists MutualConcord, New Hampshire-based Phenix Mutual Fire Insurance Co. announced that it will become an affiliate of The Motorists Insurance Group, upon approval by regulators in New Hampshire and...

String of Suspicious Fires Strikes New Hampshire Town

May 13 2009 // Four fires — three considered suspicious — have kept firefighters busy in Berlin, New Hampshire over the past several days.Officials said Berlin has been dealing with chronic arson for the past seven years....

Gay Marriage Leaps ahead in Maine, New Hampshire

May 8 2009 // Jennifer Curran could only sit in the pews of her Roman Catholic church over the years and watch as bride after bride — friends, her two sisters — walked down the aisle.Now that her home state of Maine has...