All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Oct 28 2005 // President Bush has approved Gov. John Lynch’s request to declare a major federal disaster in New Hampshire areas affected by the recent floods.As a result, residents, municipalities, businesses and the state are...
Oct 20 2005 // Medical malpractice insurers writing in New Hampshire will be required to get advance approval of any rate changes during the next year following an order by Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny.The switch to prior...
Oct 11 2005 // Prolonged, heavy rain caused flooding from North Carolina to New Hampshire over the weekend, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate, knocking out electricity, weakening dams and making roads impassable.At least four people...
Oct 11 2005 // New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, joined by state emergency officials, today toured communities devastated by flooding from this weekend’s rains.“This weekend’s floods devastated a number of our communities....
Oct 11 2005 // New Hampshire independent insurance agent Tom Minkler got his first call Sunday morning at 5 a.m. Since then, the phones haven’t stopped ringing. Minkler isn’t bothered by the calls. What bothers him is having...
Sep 19 2005 // With the horrors from Hurricane Katrina still flashing on live television, Connecticut emergency officials and Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R) met on Sept. 7 to decide how to evacuate 100,000 coastal residents if a Category 4...
Sep 19 2005 // With the horrors from Hurricane Katrina still flashing on live television, Connecticut emergency officials and Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R) met on Sept. 7 to decide how to evacuate 100,000 coastal residents if a Category 4...
Sep 6 2005 // The scope of the destruction and despair in the South has New Hampshire legislators poised to ask plenty of questions about how prepared the state is to handle unspeakable disaster.While agreeing the state is better...
Aug 1 2005 // New Hampshire Insurance Co. has asked state insurance regulators for permission to increase rates for its homeowner and condominium policies. Should state regulators give approval, the company’s premiums for...
Jul 19 2005 // The malpractice insurance market for doctors, hospitals and other medical professionals in New Hampshire is lacking competition such that a law allowing the insurance commissioner to approve any future rate hikes should be...
Jul 19 2005 // Independent agents of Mt. Washington Assurance Corporation can now use the Web-based ISO HomeValue to estimate the costs associated with rebuilding structures in the event of a total loss.Developed by ISO subsidiary AIR...
Jul 7 2005 // Surrounded by supporters, Gov. John Lynch this week signed into law a bill that promises to dramatically change the way health insurance companies set rates for small businesses in New Hampshire.Lynch said he was satisfied...
Jul 4 2005 // MASSACHUSETTSRomney Would Require Insurance: Gov. Mitt Romney would require every person in the state to have health insurance under his plan for universal health coverage, which he has dubbed the Safety Net Care proposal....
Jun 28 2005 // A New Hampshire jury has awarded $2.6 million to the family of a teen who died after a massive aspirin overdose in 2001.But it’s not clear how much John and Gaie Mitchell will receive, because shortly before the...