All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 24 2007 // The National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices has named its officers and directors for the 2007-2008 term. The new NAPSLO president is Mary Ellen Rozzell, who is with Continental/Marmorstein & Malone...
Sep 24 2007 // An auto policy’s uninsured motorist coverage is triggered for a motorcyclist killed by a hit-and-run driver after being thrown onto the roadway from his bike, which was not insured, according to the New Hampshire...
Sep 24 2007 // An auto policy’s uninsured motorist coverage is triggered for a motorcyclist killed by a hit-and-run driver after being thrown onto the roadway from his bike, which was not insured, according to the New Hampshire...
Sep 7 2007 // The New hampshire Legislature voted this week to sustain Gov. John Lynch’s vetoes of three bills, including one that would have restructured the way damages are decided in a civil lawsuit.The House voted 254-65 to...
Aug 30 2007 // An auto policy’s uninsured motorist coverage is triggered for a motorcyclist killed by a hit-and-run driver after being thrown onto the roadway from his bike, which was not insured, according to the New Hampshire...
Aug 21 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Hampshire Inc. elected its officers for 2007-2008 at its August 21 annual meeting.Judith George, of Contoocook, N.H. was re-elected president. George is vice president of commercial...
Aug 14 2007 // A 27-year-old Manchester, New Hampshire woman faces a court date later this month on charges she defrauded her auto insurance company. Attorney General Kelly Ayotte says Inge Lasut filed a claim with Progressive Northern...
Aug 6 2007 // Faced with a possible First Amendment lawsuit, selectmen in Jaffrey, N.H., have rescinded their new guidelines requiring people or groups holding events on town property to buy $1 million insurance coverage.The New...
Aug 1 2007 // Two New Hampshire residents have been indicted on fraud charges involving workers’ compensation insurance. Attorney General Kelly Ayotte says indictments were returned against Phillip Rice, 52, of Derry and Dorothy...
Jul 30 2007 // Faced with a possible First Amendment lawsuit, selectmen in Jaffrey, New Hampshire have rescinded their new guidelines requiring people or groups holding events on town property to buy $1 million insurance coverage.The New...
Jul 24 2007 // Most insurance companies doing business in New Hampshire base their customers’ insurance rates partly on their car loans, credit card balances and other debt.Five years ago, the state Insurance Department adopted...
Jul 23 2007 // New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch has signed a law extending health insurance coverage to people who lose their insurance when their marriages break up.The law, which takes effect Jan. 1., requires insurance companies to let...
Jul 23 2007 // Willis, InsuranceNoodleWillis Group Holdings Limited, the global insurance broker, has acquired Chicago-based InsuranceNoodle, an Internet distributor of U.S. small business insurance. Terms of the transaction were not...
Jul 6 2007 // New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch has vetoed a bill that would have limited the number of parties against whom damage awards from civil suits could be apportioned.“I cannot support this change in the law because it is...
Jul 2 2007 // The New Hampshire House last month gave final approval to the bill that defines who can be sued and ordered to pay damages in a lawsuit, even after some lawmakers complained the language is confusing.The bill defines...
Jun 29 2007 // Merchants Mutual Insurance Co. announced that its recently formed subsidiary, Merchants Preferred Insurance Co., issued its first insurance policy, a commercial auto policy, in New Hampshire effective July 1,...
Jun 28 2007 // New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch is in the middle of a battle over a bill to change the way juries can assign blame in lawsuits.Lynch has talked with business groups who are against the change and with trial lawyers who favor...
Jun 25 2007 // A minor earthquake shook people on New Hampshire’s Seacoast last Wednesday night.The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the quake was centered in North Hampton. It registered as a magnitude 1.0. No damage was...
Jun 25 2007 // New Hampshire customers who were stranded after their oil company shut its doors in April confronted the company’s owners last Friday at a creditors’ hearing in Concord.Rumford Energy closed without warning,...
Jun 15 2007 // A bill limiting who can be sued in the state is on its way to New Hampshire Governor John Lynch for his signature.The New Hampshire House this week gave final approval to the bill that defines who can be sued and ordered...