Latest New Hampshire Headlines

All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Drivers with Suspended Licenses an ‘Epidemic,’ Claims N.H. Official

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...

N.H. Gets Full Time Insurance Fraud Prosecutor

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...

Red Cross Honors N.H. Flood Heroes

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...

N.H. Agents Plan Education Conference; Commissioner to Speak

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...

N.H. Employers Receive Refunds on Workers Comp Policies

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...

N.H. House Votes to Help Flood Victims

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...

N.H. House Passes Premum Tax Cut for Insurers; Measure Now Goes to Senate

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...

N.H. House Advances $2.9 Million Flood Relief Measure

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...

N.H. House Kills Wal-Mart Bill

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...

N.H. Bill Targets Advisers Who Help Elderly Shield Assets from Medicaid

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...

New Markets

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...

New Markets

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...

N.H. Vows to Target Motorcycle Safety as Accident Deaths Rise

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...

Electric Insurance Adds Tiers to N.H. Auto Insurance Pricing

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...

From New England to Virginia, Courts Made Insurance Headlines in 2005

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...

N.H. Trucker Caught Paying ‘Under the Table’ to Avoid Comp Costs

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...

Mt. Washington Group Plan Offers Savings for N.H. CPAs

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...

Mt. Washington Offers Group Auto Plan for N.H. State Employees

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...

Mt. Washington Assurance Offers ID Fraud Protection to N.H. Policyholders

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...

N.H. Workers’ Comp Rates Going Down

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...