October 12, 2007
Not all medical injuries are malpractice. “It’s not easy to tell a patient, ‘You have a harm but it’s not anybody’s fault,”‘ says Marilyn Ashcroft, a medical injury screening panel judge for 15 years in Maine. “The public perception is: …
July 2, 2007
New Hampshire has officially rejected the federal Real ID Act as tantamount to requiring a national ID card, joining five other states in opposing it. South Carolina, Montana, Washington, Oklahoma and Maine also have rejected the federal act. “Here in …
June 12, 2007
Calling the federal Real ID Act “repugnant” to the state and federal constitutions, New Hampshire lawmakers voted to join other states — including neighboring Maine — in rejecting the federal Real ID Act as tantamount to requiring a national ID …
April 9, 2007
The Live Free or Die state’s days of unrestrained driving could be numbered. New Hampshire would give up its status as the only state without a mandatory seat belt law for adults under a bill approved narrowly Thursday by the …
June 15, 2006
New Hampshire securities officials have charged units of Dutch financial services giant ING Groep NV with taking undisclosed payments for promoting poor investments to state employees in their individual retirement plans. Regulators ordered ING Financial Advisors and ING Life Insurance …
January 24, 2005
Helen Johnston is an 80-year-old retired pediatrician who hardly considers herself much of a risk for being sued. That’s not how her insurance company sees it, however. Johnston is losing extra coverage she bought years ago while she still practiced …