Latest New Hampshire Headlines
All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Whistleblower Sues N.H. Insurance Regulators
Jun 20 2011 // A health policy analyst with the New Hampshire Insurance Department who was fired after challenging her bosses over a federal health care contract is now suing them under the state’s whistleblower statute. Concord...
New Hampshire Association Repaying $17M
Jun 6 2011 // A nonprofit that manages New Hampshire’s public employees’ health insurance risk pool is repaying the health insurance pool $17 million diverted to support a workers’ compensation program. The Local...
Beach Rebirth: Popular New Hampshire Beach Gets Spruced Up
May 9 2011 // Bob Mitchell can’t wait to reopen Mrs. Mitchell’s Gift Shop. His business was one of several Hampton Beach businesses destroyed in a fire last year, but Mitchell plans to be back by Memorial Day. Just as...
New Hampshire City Investigates Five Arsons in Six Days in
Mar 18 2011 // Police in Manchester, New Hampshire are investigating five arson fires in six days in a one-block area of the city’s west side. Investigators say all the fires went out on their own, but they caused some...
New Hampshire Bill Would Repeal Boat Speed Limits
Feb 25 2011 // A year after New Hampshire established permanent speed limits on its largest lake, lawmakers are considering repealing them. The Senate is considering a bill that replaces a daytime speed limit on Lake Winnipesaukee of 45...
OSHA Fines New Hampshire Paper Company in Worker Death
Jan 27 2011 // A federal agency is fining a New Hampshire paper company for intentional safety violations in the death of a 34-year-old worker who was pulled through a paper rolling machine. The Occupational Safety and Health...
State: Utility Not to Blame in New Hampshire Power Shutoff Death
Dec 14 2010 // State regulators said an electric utility acted appropriately when it shut off power to a woman who didn’t pay her power bill and died after an oxygen machine she needed stopped working. The state Public Utilities...
Sky-High Premiums Force Closure of New Hampshire Flight School
Dec 7 2010 // The flight school at New Hampshire’s Lebanon Municipal Airport has disbanded. Greg Soho of Signal Aviation, which ran the school, says the decision to drop the program had nothing to do with demand for flight...
New Hampshire Supreme Court Rejects Golfer’s Negligence Claim
Dec 5 2010 // You play golf, you assume risks. So says New Hampshire’s Supreme Court. The state’s highest court has upheld dismissal of a negligence lawsuit brought by an injured golfer against Candia Woods Golf Links. Paul...
New Hampshire Firefighter Gets 3 to 10 for Setting Fires
Nov 30 2010 // A former New Hampshire firefighter is going to prison for at least three years after pleading guilty to setting a series of fires. Forty-four-year-old Stark Liedtke of Alton had pleaded guilty to three charges that he set...
New Hampshire Supreme Court Rejects Golfer’s Negligence Claim
Nov 29 2010 // You play golf, you assume risks. So says New Hampshire’s Supreme Court. The state’s highest court has upheld dismissal of a negligence lawsuit brought by an injured golfer against Candia Woods Golf Links. Paul...
Report Looks at Use of New Hampshire Insurance Group’s Funds
Nov 2 2010 // A preliminary state report says New Hampshire’s Local Government Center may have violated the law by reorganizing improperly and by failing to return surplus money from its insurance programs to communities. Center...
Eight Fires Within 16 Hours in New Hampshire are Deemed Arson
Oct 12 2010 // Authorities say eight fires in 16 hours in Manchester, New Hampshire were arson. Fire officials say they started Saturday afternoon and ended Sunday. No injuries or serious damage have been reported. District Fire Chief...
Nolan Named President of New Hampshire Agents’ Group
Sep 28 2010 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Hampshire (PIANH) has elected Lisa Nolan as president. She is senior executive vice president of the Watson Insurance Agency in Manchester, New Hampshire, and served as the...
New Hampshire Panel Mulls Rule Changes to Malpractice Fund
Sep 27 2010 // Senate members of the legislative rules committee have objected to rule changes for the malpractice insurance fund proposed by the New Hampshire insurance commissioner. The joint legislative committee on Friday raised...
New Hampshire Woman Blinded by Drug Wins $21M
Sep 20 2010 // A federal jury in New Hampshire has awarded $21 million to a woman blinded and scarred by a prescription drug she took for shoulder pain. Karen Bartlett, 51, of Plaistow suffered extreme burns to her skin, mucus membranes...
New Hampshire Woman Blinded by Drug Wins $21M in Lawsuit
Sep 13 2010 // A federal jury in New Hampshire has awarded $21 million to a woman blinded and scarred by a prescription drug she took for shoulder pain. Karen Bartlett, 51, of Plaistow suffered extreme burns to her skin, mucus membranes...
New Hampshire Jury Deliberates Federal Drug Liability Case
Sep 7 2010 // A New Hampshire woman is seeking more than $24 million in damages from the maker of a prescription drug she took to ease shoulder pain, but suffered a reaction so severe that she is now blind and scarred by internal and...
New Hampshire Workers’ Comp Trust to Pay $245K in Dividends
Aug 25 2010 // The Association Members Workers’ Compensation Trust said it will pay dividends totaling $245,000 to New Hampshire businesses that participated in the program between 2004 to 2006. The dividends, a portion of which...
Six Months Later, No Cause Found in New Hampshire Fire
Aug 17 2010 // Six months after a massive fire destroyed a block of businesses at New Hampshire’s Hampton Beach, investigators still can’t say what caused it. Hampton Fire Chief Chris Silver tells the Portsmouth Herald five...
