Latest New Hampshire Headlines
All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aspen Insurance Agency Announces New Hires in N.H.
Dec 18 2014 // Aspen Insurance Agency in Manchester, New Hampshire, has hired two additional staff members. Lyndsay Lee has joined the agency as commercial marketing representative. Lee brings seven years of insurance industry experience...
N.H. Liquor Commission Ramps Up Efforts to Prevent Drunken Driving
Dec 15 2014 // The New Hampshire Liquor Commission is ramping up efforts to prevent drunken driving during the holiday season by increasing undercover monitoring of establishments serving alcohol and partnering with the state police to...
Clark Insurance Announces 2 Appointments in Maine
Dec 12 2014 // Clark Insurance, an employee-owned independent insurance agency with offices in Maine and New Hampshire, announced two appointments in its Portland, Maine, office. Tammy Volock has been named controller at Clark Insurance....
Nicolopoulos Named to Lead N.H. Association of Insurance Agents
Dec 4 2014 // Christopher Nicolopoulos The New Hampshire Association of Insurance Agents (NHAIA) announced Christopher Nicolopoulos has been named president and chief executive officer of the organization effective Dec. 1. Nicolopoulos...
N.H. Officials Remind Residents to Take Care of Fuel Storage Tanks
Dec 2 2014 // The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services issued a public service announcement reminding residents that snow and ice can damage outdoor heating oil/propane/natural gas tanks, and the piping connecting the tank...
New Hampshire Approves NCCI’s Loss Cost Decrease Filing
Nov 6 2014 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department announced Wednesday that it has approved the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) advisory loss cost and rating values filing to be effective Jan. 1, 2015. The...
Nash to Retire as President of N.H. Association of Insurance Agents
Nov 3 2014 // Robert L. Nash Robert L. Nash, president of the New Hampshire Association of Insurance Agents (NHAIA), has announced his retirement effective Dec. 31, 2014. Nash, president of NHAIA since 2001, has spent 43 years in...
N.H. Resident Sentenced to Prison for Felony Insurance Fraud
Oct 13 2014 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department announced that a Nashua, N.H., resident pleaded guilty in Hillsborough County Superior Court on Oct. 9 to two charges of felony insurance fraud and one felony charge of bail jumping,...
Local Governments May Be Affected by Breach at Bond Insurer MBIA
Oct 8 2014 // Bond insurer MBIA was told two weeks ago about a server breach that compromised the data of thousands of local U.S. government entities, but it did not address the problem until earlier this week, according to the cyber...
N.H. Workers’ Comp Commission Holds Its 1st Meeting
Sep 29 2014 // New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny last Friday chaired the first meeting of the Commission to Recommend Reforms to Reduce Workers’ Compensation Medical Costs. The commission was created by Gov. Maggie...
Clark Insurance Adds New Employees in Portland, Maine, Office
Sep 25 2014 // Clark Insurance, an employee-owned independent insurance agency with offices in Maine and New Hampshire, announced the following new employees in its Portland, Maine, office. Pamela Cyr will serve as an account manager in...
N.H. Gov. Creates Workers’ Comp Commission
Sep 22 2014 // N.H. Gov. Maggie HassanNew Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan on Sept. 4 issued an executive order creating a new commission to recommend ways to reduce the state’s workers’ compensation medical costs. The executive...
New Hampshire Launches Emergency Notification Tools
Sep 9 2014 // New Hampshire’s Department of Public Safety has updated one tool and created another that uses mobile and landline phones to alert people to statewide emergencies. A website, ReadyNH.gov, provides step-by-step...
New Hampshire Gov. Hassan Creates Workers’ Compensation Commission
Sep 5 2014 // New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan has issued an executive order creating a new commission to recommend ways to reduce the state’s workers’ compensation medical costs. The new commission, called the Commission to...
NCCI Proposes Workers’ Comp Loss Costs Decrease in N.H.
Aug 18 2014 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) recently delivered a workers’ compensation loss cost filing to the New Hampshire Insurance Department. NCCI said that based upon its review of the most recently...
N.H. Insurance Department Appoints Financial Regulation Director
Aug 15 2014 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department recently appointed Deb Stone as director of financial regulation. Stone, who formerly served as an actuary and director of market regulation division at the Insurance Department,...
Acadia Insurance Launches Small Business Product in Maine, New Hampshire
Aug 15 2014 // Acadia Insurance, a W. R. Berkley Co., has launched a new insurance policy for small businesses in Maine and New Hampshire called AcadiaAdvantage. The product is expected to be available in additional states this...
New Hampshire Law to Ban Handheld Devices While Driving
Aug 4 2014 // Motorists travelling through New Hampshire are seeing electronic highway signs warning them about distracted driving — the first messages in what will become a full-blown public awareness campaign about a law that...
N.H. Issues Consumer Clarification on ‘Multi-State’ Health Insurance Plans
Jul 18 2014 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department issued a consumer clarification for state residents Thursday explaining what the term “multi-state” means on the state’s federally facilitated health insurance...
6.5 Million Homes from Maine to Texas at Risk for Storm Surge: CoreLogic
Jul 10 2014 // More than 6.5 million homes along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of storm surge inundation, representing nearly $1.5 trillion in total potential reconstruction costs. More than $986 billion of that risk is...
