All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 3 2007 // New Hampshire can celebrate a reduction in the number of highway deaths in 2006.Division of Motor Vehicles Director Virginia Beecher said fatal crashes dropped from 161 last year to 122 this year. She credits increased...
Dec 29 2006 // Bliss and Glennon Inc., a managing general agency and surplus lines broker based in Redondo Beach, Calif., opened two new regional offices in Manchester, N.H., and Birmingham, Ala., in late December in an effort to broaden...
Dec 28 2006 // St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H. has filed a lawsuit accusing its insurance company of refusing to cover most of the $5 million the school has spent repairing buildings and grounds damaged by flooding last...
Dec 25 2006 // The family of a New Hampshire man killed in a drunken driving crash two years ago is suing the state Liquor Commission and the woman who owns the home where his friends were drinking.Randy Holmes, 24, was a passenger in a...
Dec 25 2006 // From Maine to Virginia, agents and adjusters helped property owners dig out from damaging floods. High waters seemed to hit a new state every week. Meanwhile, these same agents had to worry about whether their income was...
Dec 24 2006 // The family of a New Hampshire man killed in a drunken driving crash two years ago is suing the state Liquor Commission and the woman who owns the home where his friends were drinking.Randy Holmes, 24, was a passenger in a...
Dec 24 2006 // From Maine to Virginia, agents and adjusters helped property owners dig out from damaging floods. High waters seemed to hit a new state every week. Meanwhile, these same agents had to worry about whether their income was...
Dec 20 2006 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department has approved a workers’ compensation voluntary loss cost decrease of 0.9 percent on average along with a reduction in assigned risk rates of 0.6 percent. The new figures go into...
Dec 14 2006 // The family of a New Hampshire man killed in a drunken driving crash two years ago is suing the state Liquor Commission and the woman who owns the home where his friends were drinking that night.Randy Holmes, 24, was a...
Dec 12 2006 // A family who takes care of a physically and mentally disabled person in their home has been told by fire officials they need sprinklers installed.Joe Sousa said he and his family have cared for a disabled person in their...
Dec 6 2006 // A bill rejected by the state Legislature four years ago would have required a safety railing on parade floats — a measure that might have prevented the death of a 9-year-old boy in Portsmouth’s holiday parade.Some...
Oct 30 2006 // A new study by a Boston-based think tank shows that Massachusetts firms in nine selected industries including financial services have costs that are on average 20 percent to 30 percent higher than similar companies in...
Oct 17 2006 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department and the Board of Directors of ACA Assurance jointly announced that ACA Assurance has temporarily been placed in rehabilitation.ACA Assurance is a Manchester, N.H.-based fraternal...
Oct 16 2006 // Drivers heading into New Hampshire from Vermont on Interstate 89 this winter will have some high-tech help to keep them on the road.Crews this week finished installing a sophisticated system that uses sensors to detect...
Oct 16 2006 // A judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the owners of the Bayview Crematorium in Seabrook, New Hampshire, where dozens of families believed their loved ones’ remains were mistreated, can be classified as a...
Oct 9 2006 // The state of New Hampshire routinely bypasses competitive bidding for insurance contracts and awards them to incumbent producers, a state audit report that severely criticizes many of the state’s insurance practices...
Oct 9 2006 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department was the first in the nation when it was created in 1851 with a mission to administer the state’s insurance laws. Roger Sevigny, current commissioner, was recently elected an...
Oct 9 2006 // Flood policy purchases rising nationwide and in Eastern statesThe purchase of flood insurance in New Hampshire has risen by 26.2 percent since May of last year – a jump attributed to last October’s flooding and...
Sep 27 2006 // New Hampshire’s motor vehicles director wants elderly drivers to be tested more often.Virginia Beecher told the New Hampshire Sunday News she supports shortening the renewal time as drivers age. She said older...
Sep 21 2006 // The state of New Hampshire routinely bypasses competitive bidding for insurance contracts and awards them to incumbent producers, a state audit report that severely criticizes many of the state’s insurance practices...