All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 1 2002 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court has upheld a state law limiting the payment of damages to the percentage of fault in cases where a defendant has been found less than 50 percent liable for the injuries.A report from the...
May 20 2002 // Gerald L. Zimmerman, senior counsel for the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) indicated that the industry was satisfied with the outcome of the New Hampshire 2002 legislative session, which ended last...
Feb 20 2002 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department has validated the opposition of the American Insurance Association to a proposal to require prior written approval from consumers before insurers can use credit scoring by withdrawing...
Jan 23 2002 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court’s January 11 decision has effectively overturned a decision made in 1999, that allowed an injured employee to collect both workers compensation benefits and sue for damages under the...
Jan 14 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) has thrown its support behind pending legislation in New Hampshire designed to protect the confidentiality of insurance company audit information from third...
Jun 18 2001 // The new bill (H.230), which establishes scheduling criteria for workers’ compensation claims, signed last Thursday by New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen, contained important amendments proposed by the American...
Jun 14 2001 // New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen signed into law a bill to restrict workers’ compensation claims for mental stress caused by an unfavorable job performance review. The bill (House Bill 232) reverses a recent...
Apr 27 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) is seeking major changes in regards to the New Hampshire Insurance Department’s (NHID) proposed regulation for the use of credit scoring by insurers. During a meeting of the...
Jan 30 2001 // A hearing will be held tomorrow in the House Commerce Committee on a bill sponsored by the National Association of Independent Insurers.The bill is designed to address issues raised by 1999’s controversial...
Jan 22 2001 // A new bill introduced in the New Hampshire House addresses a controversial state Supreme Court ruling that allowed a worker who became depressed after an unfavorable performance review to collect under her employer’s...
Dec 1 2000 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department has proposed financial services privacy regulation consistent with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ model privacy regulation. During a hearing earlier this...
Oct 23 2000 // The hotly contested language of Section4(b)8 became a thing of the past on Oct. 4 when the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) voted unanimously to delete the section from its Producer Licensing Model...
Oct 16 2000 // The hotly contested language of Section4(b)8 became a thing of the past on Oct. 4 when the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) voted unanimously to delete the section from its Producer Licensing Model...