All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 24 2006 // Drivers who lose their licenses aren’t letting that keep them off the roads.New Hampshire’s Assistant Safety Commissioner Earl Sweeney said the problem is at epidemic levels nationwide. “The problem for...
Apr 11 2006 // Catherine Tucker has been appointed insurance fraud prosecutor for New Hampshire, the Attorney General’s office announced.Tucker’s appointment represents a commitment between the state Insurance and Justice...
Apr 10 2006 // In torrential rain, they pulled residents to safety through raging waters, pounded on doors to move people out of harm’s way and cleared people off a bridge seconds before it was hit by a wall of water. Now...
Apr 4 2006 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Hampshire Inc.’s 2006 Annual Conference will be held Wednesday, May 24, 2006, at the Marriott Courtyard and Grappone Conference Center, Concord, N.H.More than 100 insurance...
Mar 29 2006 // Insurance companies in New Hampshire have refunded $666,086 on 13,424 workers’ compensation policyholders for policies written in 2003, 2004 and 2005.Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny last July ordered insurers to...
Mar 27 2006 // New Hampshire resdents who lost property during last fall’s floods are a step closer to getting more help from the state.The House has approved a plan for the state to spend $3.4 million buying flood-damaged...
Mar 23 2006 // The New Hampshire House of Representatives has passed legislation (HB 678) supported by insurers and agents to reduce the state premium tax from two percent to one percent for property-casualty and life...
Feb 27 2006 // New Hampshire towns damaged by last October’s floods would have their disaster relief expenses capped at $5,000 under a bill approved by the House last week.The bill would allocate $2.9 million to pay the...
Feb 16 2006 // The New Hampshire House soundly rejected a bill Wednesday that would make the state’s largest employers spend 8 percent of their payroll on health insurance.The House voted 212-128 to kill the proposal aimed at...
Jan 26 2006 // Critics are questioning the constitutionality of a proposed crackdown in New Hampshire on lawyers and financial advisers who help the elderly shield assets so they can qualify for Medicaid.Critics told a Senate committee...
Jan 22 2006 // New MarketsIdentity Recovery Coverage – Personal Lines Nuts & Bolts: Merchants Insurance Group introduced a newly expanded Identity Recovery Coverage program for homeowners’ policyholders. The new coverage...
Jan 22 2006 // New MarketsNuts & Bolts: AIG Excess Casualty, a division of American Home Assurance Company, part of American International Group Inc., introduced xsInResponse, a new product that provides excess liability coverage...
Jan 6 2006 // Around this time last year, when New Hampshire reported a dramatic increase in motorcycle accident deaths, the state announced it was working on a safety campaign directed specifically at motorcyclists.A $100,000 campaign...
Jan 2 2006 // Effective Jan. 6, 2006, Electric Insurance will expand its automobile product reach in New Hampshire by introducing additional price points. Using a multivariate pricing model, Electric has developed rate levels that the...
Dec 30 2005 // From Maine to Virginia, many of the insurance headlines in 2005 dealt with compensation and reinsurance probes, just as they did across the country, casting the industry’s reputation in a bad light.But much of the...
Dec 7 2005 // A trucking company owner in Hudson, N.H. has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he conspired to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and Transportation Department and his workers compensation insurance carriers.The...
Nov 30 2005 // Mt. Washington Assurance Corporation announced its new group automobile program for the New Hampshire Society of Certified Public Accountants (NHSCPA), a statewide professional association for nearly a thousand New...
Nov 16 2005 // Mt. Washington Assurance Corporation has announced its new group automobile program for the State Employees’ Association of New Hampshire (www.seiu1984.org), offering its 8,000 members a 10 percent auto insurance...
Nov 10 2005 // Mt. Washington Assurance Corporation announced the availability of its new Identity Fraud Expense Coverage for its New Hampshire policyholders. Offered as an inexpensive addition to existing homeowners policies, the...
Nov 2 2005 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department has approved a workers’ compensation voluntary market loss cost rate decrease averaging 3.9 percent and an average decrease of 4.6 percent for assigned risk rates.The revised...