Latest New Hampshire Headlines

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N.H. Summit to Focus on Drivers’ Medical Fitness

Dec 7 2004 // Medical people, police, lawmakers and drivers are preparing for a conference on safe driving this week in New Hampshire — tackling driver’s education and road design, but also looking at whether should drivers with...

N.H. Looks to Steer Debate to Drivers’ Medical Fitness to be Behind Wheel

Dec 6 2004 // Medical people, police, lawmakers and drivers are preparing for a conference on safe driving in New Hampshire–tackling traditional topics such as driver’s education and road design, but also looking at an...

Clarification: Merchants Group Inc. Holding Company Chief Resigns; Merchants Insurance CEO Zak Remains

Dec 3 2004 // The chief executive officer of Merchants Group, Inc., the Buffalo, N.Y-based holding company, has resigned, the company revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Stephen C. June resigned Nov. 30 from...

N.H. Comp Market Reflects Low Frequency, Slow Hiring, Workforce

Oct 25 2004 // Workers’ compensation writers in New Hampshire want an average 2.5 percent hike for voluntary market advisory loss costs and a 12.7 percent average increase in residual market premiums, according to the most recent...

Progressive Now Offering Commercial Auto in N.H.

Oct 22 2004 // As previously reported by Insurance Journal, The Progressive group of companies has begun offering commercial auto coverages in New Hampshire through more than 200 agents. The product is being marketing under its new Drive...

N.H. Weighs Cut in Insurers’ Premium Tax

Oct 14 2004 // New Hampsihre may be the first Eastern state to lower its tax on insurance companies as states continue to compete to attract more business.The issue is currently the subject of an economic impact study by Ernst &...

OSHA Cites N.H. Contractor for Cave-In Hazard

Sep 30 2004 // An Ashland, New Hampshire contractor’s alleged failure to supply cave-in protection at a Woodstock jobsite has resulted in $29,650 in proposed penalties from the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and...

N.H. Insurers Seek 2.5% Comp Rate Hike

Sep 22 2004 // Workers’ compensation writers in New Hampshire want an average 2.5 percent hike for voluntary market advisory loss costs and a 12.7 percent average increase for residual market premiums, according to the most recent...

N.H. GOVERNOR DEFENDS HEALTH LAW:

Sep 20 2004 // Gov. Craig Benson is defending legislation that allows health insurers in New Hampshire to set rates based on such risk factors as age and health as too new a law to be judged properly. Benson said the law has been working...

Toronto Bank Buying Majority of Banknorth

Sep 2 2004 // Officials at Banknorth Group, Inc. (NYSE: BNK) of Portland, Maine, and TD Bank Financial Group (TDBFG) of Toronto announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for TDBFG to acquire 51 percent of the outstanding...

N.H. Weighs Impact of New Group Rating

Aug 24 2004 // New Hampshire’s smallest businesses are being hit the hardest by a new law that allows health insurers to set rates based on such risk factors as age and health, state officials say.Officials said the nearly 25,000...

N.H. Court Finds State’s Ski Immunity Law Doesn’t Apply to Snow Tubing on Slopes

Aug 23 2004 // A ski area is not protected from a lawsuit brought by an injured snow tuber, the New Hampshire Supreme Court recently ruled.State law helps shield ski areas from lawsuits by saying a skier assumes the risk of injury by...

A.D. Davis now Banknorth in New Hampshire

Aug 3 2004 // A well-known name in the insurance agency business in New Hampshire is no longer.A. D. Davis Insurance Agency, the New Hampshire affiliate of Banknorth Insurance Group, announced that it will change its name to Banknorth...

In N.H. Governor’s Race, Four Candidates Differ On State’s Handling of Insurance Issues

Aug 2 2004 // Was it a good idea to let New Hampshire’s health insurers use workers’ health history in setting rates for the state’s smallest businesses?Republicans Craig Benson and Charles Tarbell say the jury is...

N.H. Court: Injured Snow Tuber Can Sue Ski Area

Jul 21 2004 // A ski area is not protected from a lawsuit brought by an injured snow tuber, the New Hampshire Supreme Court recently ruled.State law helps shield ski areas from lawsuits by saying a skier assumes the risk of injury by...

People and Places

Jul 5 2004 // Sidney R. Ferenc and Steven M. Menzies were recently elected to new management positions by the board of directors of Applied Underwriters, headquartered in San Francisco. Ferenc assumes the position of chairman of the...

N.H. Orders Audit of Insurance Broker Fees

May 27 2004 // The New Hampshire Legislature’s audit division will be looking into fees paid to brokers for handling the state’s insurance contracts.The joint legislative Fiscal Committee voted unanimously to approve the...

N.H. Med-Mal Reform Dies in Legislature

May 24 2004 // Though worried that medical malpractice insurance is driving doctors from the state and from specialties like obstetrics, New Hampshire lawmakers last week failed to agree on legislation to address the problem.The House...

N.H. Agents Upbeat at Annual Conference

May 21 2004 // Nearly 100 independent insurance agents and industry professionals from across New Hampshire took part in the Professional Insurance Agents of New Hampshire Inc.’s annual conference in Concord, N.H. on May...

N.H. Commissioner Sevigny to Keynote PIANH Meeting

May 6 2004 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Hampshire Inc.’s annual conference will feature a keynote address by Commissioner Roger Sevigny of the New Hampshire Insurance Department.The annual conference will be held...