Latest New Hampshire Headlines
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People Moves: Former NH Commissioner Nicolopoulos Joins Davis & Towle as CEO
Jun 3 2025 // Chris Nicolopoulos Davis & Towle Insurance Group, headquartered in Concord, New Hampshire, named former New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner, Christopher Nicolopoulos as the agency’s new chief executive...
Free Speech Beats Zoning in Spat Over New Hampshire Pastry Shop Painting
May 28 2025 // A New Hampshire town’s attempt to force a bakery to remove or alter its painting that shows sunbeams shining down on a mountain range of doughnuts, a muffin, a cinnamon roll and other pastries is unconstitutional, a...
New Hampshire to Pay $2.25M to Mother of 5-Year-Old Killed by Father
May 27 2025 // New Hampshire has agreed to pay $2.25 million to the mother of Harmony Montgomery, a 5-year-old girl whose father was convicted of murdering her. Crystal Sorey filed a negligence lawsuit against the state last May accusing...
Davis & Towle Acquires New Hampshire’s Tobey & Merrill Insurance
May 16 2025 // Insurance agency Davis & Towle Insurance Group, headquartered in Concord, New Hampshire, announced its acquisition of Tobey & Merrill Insurance in Hampton. While the agency will operate under Davis &...
New Hampshire Regulates Use of Technology in Auto Claims, Property Underwriting
May 5 2025 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) has issued a bulletin clarifying insurers’ obligations when using virtual claims adjustment systems to assess automobile damage. That guidance came in response to a...
New Hampshire Settles Second Youth Center Abuse Case for $4.5M
Apr 29 2025 // New Hampshire has agreed to pay $4.5 million to a woman who accused a youth detention center staffer of raping her in storage closet just before he handed out candy to other children as a reward for good behavior. Natasha...
Heavily-Forested New Hampshire Enters Wildfire Season
Apr 25 2025 // Despite rain statewide this month, the New Hampshire Forest Protection Bureau reports that 72% of the Granite State is currently experiencing abnormally dry conditions. The bureau is reminding the public that spring is the...
New Hampshire Regulates Use of Technology in Auto Claims, Property Underwriting
Apr 18 2025 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) has issued a bulletin clarifying insurers’ obligations when using virtual claims adjustment systems to assess automobile damage. That guidance came in response to a...
New Hampshire PFAS Case Sent Back to State Court
Apr 11 2025 // The First Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked the 3M Co.’s attempt to remove New Hampshire’s PFAS chemical case to federal court. The appeals court affirmed a 2023 order by the U.S. District Court for the...
New Hampshire Settles Youth Center Abuse Claim for $10 Million
Mar 24 2025 // The New Hampshire attorney general’s office has agreed to a $10 million settlement in the case of a man who alleged that he was gang-raped in a stairwell at the state’s youth detention center in the...
No Time Limit on Adding Dependent to Open Workers Comp Claim: NH High Court
Mar 4 2025 // Adding a dependent to an open workers’ compensation death benefits claim does not constitute a separate claim, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled last week. Furthermore, the court concluded, there is no statutory...
New Law in New Hampshire Creates Private Right of Action For Victims of Deepfakes
Jan 12 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. There’s been no shortage of examples in recent years of how deepfake technology can be used in alarming ways: Fraudsters recently posed as a...
New Hampshire Police Investigating Case of Man Found Dead at Insurance Department
Dec 26 2024 // The New Hampshire State Police reported that troopers are investigating the death of an adult male found dead at the New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID). Investigators said they do not believe the death is suspicious...
New Hampshire High Court Invalidates Geico Underinsured Claim Provision
Dec 2 2024 // A claim provision requiring insureds to seek underinsured benefits from their auto insurer within three years of an accident is unenforceable in New Hampshire because it restricts the right of insureds to obtain the same...
New Hampshire High Court Invalidates Geico Underinsured Claim Provision
Nov 14 2024 // A claim provision requiring insureds to seek underinsured benefits from their auto insurer within three years of an accident is unenforceable in New Hampshire because it restricts the insureds’ right to obtain the...
New Hampshire Landscaper to Pay Employees $310K in Wages, Damages
Nov 13 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has recovered a total of $310,193 in back wages and liquidated damages from a Bedford, New Hampshire, landscaper and contractor who underpaid 60 employees. The fund recovery comes...
While Other States Struggle, New Hampshire Boasts Insurance Is ‘Going Quite Well’
Sep 23 2024 // Consumers are hearing a lot about insurance difficulties around the country. The news from California and Florida and elsewhere about how disasters, skyrocketing premiums and carrier withdrawals are making coverages hard...
New Hampshire Approves 5.6% Workers’ Compensation Loss Cost Decrease for 2025
Sep 6 2024 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) reports that it has approved a workers’ compensation rate proposal that will reduce voluntary loss costs by 5.6% on average. The new lower rates will apply to voluntary...
Mosquito-Borne Encephalitis Virus Takes Life of New Hampshire Resident
Aug 29 2024 // A New Hampshire resident infected with the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus has died, state health authorities said. The Hampstead resident’s infection was the first in the state in a decade, the New...
New Hampshire Supreme Court Reverses Police Chief’s Misconduct Verdict
Aug 9 2024 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of a former police chief who was accused of violating sexual harassment policies following a call he made to a female employee, saying a judge misinterpreted the...
