All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 29 2008 // One of the U.S. senators who has sponsored legislation to give insurance companies the option of being regulated by the federal government instead of by states is leaving the Senate Banking Committee that deals with many...
Jan 29 2008 // Massachusetts independent agents are facing a challenge to hang onto their whopping 86 percent market share in personal lines as the state embarks upon a new competitive auto insurance system that will bring some of the...
Jan 25 2008 // New Hampshire is debating making it illegal for drivers to send text messages on cell phones or type on laptop computers.You still could talk on a cell phone while driving. Assistant Safety Commissioner Earl Sweeney told a...
Jan 23 2008 // New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny announced that Patriot Health Insurance Co. which was placed in rehabilitation on Dec.12, 2007, will be liquidated in a proceeding supervised by the Merrimack County...
Jan 18 2008 // A former United Airlines flight attendant has settled a suit claiming she was wrongfully fired after close friends and colleagues were killed on a jet hijacked during the September 11 terrorist attacks.Deborah Jackson said...
Jan 17 2008 // A new Vermont law restricting the drug industry’s use of data on doctors’ drug prescribing habits is facing a federal lawsuit and a new round of scrutiny.The law, which was amended in the waning days of last...
Jan 11 2008 // A 60-year-old New Hampshire man has been convicted of insurance fraud for taking money to replace items destroyed in a fire when he never replaced them, according to state officials. Attorney General Kelly Ayotte said...
Jan 3 2008 // As promised, New Hampshire lawmakers made changes to a controversial workers’ compensation measure affecting small contractors one of their first orders of business for 2008.Meeting in Concord on Jan. 2, the House...
Dec 21 2007 // A New Hampshire judge has approved a hazardous waste violation settlement that will see a Pembroke construction company pay a $157,500 fine. The state alleged Venture Construction, Inc., transported and stored hazardous...
Dec 14 2007 // New Hampshire insurance regulators have begun supervising the operations of Patriot Health Insurance Co. and another insurer will take over its policies and operations. Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny says MVP Health...
Dec 11 2007 // A 52-year-old New Hampshire man has pleaded guilty to theft in a workers’ compensation case.Attorney General Kelly Ayotte says Philip Rice of Derry was sentenced to serve six months in jail with the sentence...
Dec 7 2007 // New Hampshire state lawmakers from both parties said this week they hope to quickly fix a workers’ compensation law when they return to the Statehouse in the new year.Earlier this year the Legislature closed a...
Dec 3 2007 // A New Hampshire jury has found that the organizers of Laconia’s Bike Week are not responsible for the injuries of two pedestrians who were hit by a motorycle during the 2004 motorcycle festival.Denise Cole and...
Dec 2 2007 // A high-tech helmet invented by a New Hampshire company is helping football teams and the military learn more about head injuries.The helmet and sensors created by research-and-development company Simbex LLC in Lebanon,...
Nov 18 2007 // A New Hampshire couple sued for negligence after their son molested children they were babysitting does not have coverage under their homeowners policy that has a sexual molestation exclusion, the New Hampshire Supreme...
Nov 12 2007 // GMAC Insurance has agreed to pay a $50,000 fine to settle charges that the company sent deceptive direct mail advertising to 22,000 New Hampshire residents last year. The state insurance commissioner said the mailing...
Nov 7 2007 // A New Hampshire couple sued for negligence after their son molested children they were babysitting does not have coverage under their homeowners policy that has a sexual molestation exclusion, the New Hampshire Supreme...
Nov 2 2007 // A New Hampshire lawyer who admitted to insurance fraud has been suspended for two years. The Supreme Court punishment was longer than one conduct committee recommended for James Grew, but much less than that suggested by...
Nov 1 2007 // New Hampshire construction firms may exclude up to three executives from their workers compensation policies, provided the executives do not actively work on construction sites, under a recent change in statute.The new...
Oct 31 2007 // A New Hampshire lawmaker wants the Legislature to send drivers a clear message: stop sending text messages while driving!Nashua Democrat David Campbell has filed the paperwork for a bill to ban two-handed texting or typing...