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Retiring Commissioner Sevigny Talks State Regulation, Being a Good Leader
Mar 19 2018 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny is planning to retire this summer after 16 years with the New Hampshire Insurance Department. His current term ends on June 11. Prior to his...
New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Sevigny Set to Retire This Summer
Mar 14 2018 // New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny is planning to retire this summer after 16 years with the New Hampshire Insurance Department. With his current term ending on June 11, he told Insurance Journal his advice...
Optisure Risk Partners Merges with New Hampshire’s Masiello Insurance Agency
Mar 9 2018 // Optisure Risk Partners of Manchester, N.H., has merged with Masiello Insurance Agency of Keene, N.H. Founded in 2015, Optisure is a provider of risk management and insurance, with more than $175 million in insurance...
SIAA Hires Smith as Director of Enterprise Applications in New Hampshire
Mar 6 2018 // SIAA (Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance) has hired Dan Smith as director of enterprise applications, a new position at its Hampton, N.H., location. SIAA is a national alliance of more than 6,750 signed independent...
Fire Damages Businesses at New Hampshire Strip Mall, Officials Investigate
Jan 19 2018 // Investigators are working to determine the cause of a fire that broke out at a New Hampshire strip mall. Fire officials say none of the stores were open at the time and there were no injuries. WMUR-TV reports firefighters...
Fire at New Hampshire Logging Business Destroys Several Buildings
Jan 10 2018 // A state official says a fire at a northern New Hampshire logging business has destroyed several buildings. WMUR-TV reports the fire started at about 2 a.m. Monday at A.B. Logging and Trucking in Lancaster, N.H. Executive...
New Hampshire’s SIAA Hires Carey to Business Insurance Advantage Program
Jan 10 2018 // Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance (SIAA), a Hampton, N.H.-based alliance of independent insurance agencies in the U.S., has hired Lizah Carey as a business insurance development specialist for its Business Insurance...
Fire Officials Say New Hampshire Antique Store Destroyed in Four-Alarm Blaze
Jan 9 2018 // Firefighters say a four-alarm blaze quickly tore through and destroyed a New Hampshire antique store late this weekend. Officials say the fire began burning just after midnight Sunday at the Swanzey antique store. WMUR-TV...
FEMA Announces Federal Disaster Assistance for Several Northeast States
Jan 4 2018 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the states of Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the...
Two Subcontractors Sue for Unpaid Bills on Pease Hangars in New Hampshire
Jan 2 2018 // Two subcontractors are suing the company fired by the New Hampshire National Guard for what it called substandard work on hangars at Pease Air National Guard Base. New Hampshire Public Radio reports that B.L. Mechanical of...
New Hampshire’s Northern United Agents Alliance Adds Three Members
Dec 21 2017 // The Northern United Agents Alliance (NUAA) has announced that Geo M. Stevens Insurance, Voyager Insurance Services LLC and Wieczorek Insurance have joined the NUAA as participating members, effective January 1,...
Vermont Man Whose Relatives Died Mysteriously Must Give Gun Info
Dec 11 2017 // A Vermont man whose mother and grandfather died in mysterious circumstances must turn over information related to a missing gun, as well as phone and other records, in a Rhode Island lawsuit over insurance on his sunken...
Vermont Man Whose Relatives Died Mysteriously Denies Allegations
Dec 8 2017 // A Vermont man denied in court papers Wednesday allegations that he killed his millionaire grandfather in 2013 and claims he doesn’t know the whereabouts of his mother who disappeared after a boat they were on sank...
Construction Firm Disputes OSHA in Work at New Hampshire Power Plant
Dec 4 2017 // A construction company says it will challenge violations and nearly $330,000 in fines proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration over possible mercury exposure at Eversource’s Schiller Station in...
Maritime Program Group Hires Roper to New Hampshire Office
Nov 28 2017 // Maritime Program Group Inc. (MPG) of Westbrook, Conn., has hired Matthew Roper as manager of its Commercial Recreational Marine program. In this role, Roper assumes responsibility for the growth, development and...
$1.3M Settlement in New Hampshire Paralyzed School Football Player Case
Nov 20 2017 // A New Hampshire city and its insurance carriers have agreed to pay a former high school football player who was paralyzed in a 2010 practice $2,000 a month as part of a $1.3 million settlement of his negligence...
New Hampshire House Committee Rejects Marijuana Legalization Bill
Nov 16 2017 // A bill that would legalize marijuana in New Hampshire has been rejected by a House committee. The Concord Monitor reports the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee on Tuesday voted not to recommend the bill to the...
Prime Insurance to Write Specialty Lines in New Hampshire, Rhode Island
Nov 15 2017 // Prime Holdings Insurance Services Inc. (Prime Holdings) announced that its subsidiary, Prime Insurance Company (Prime), recently received approval to write specialty lines insurance coverage in New Hampshire and Rhode...
Prime Authorized to Write Surplus Lines in New Hampshire and Rhode Island
Nov 15 2017 // Salt Lake City, UT, Chicago, Illinois, November 15, 2017- Prime Holdings Insurance Services, Inc. (“Prime Holdings”) announced that its subsidiary, Prime Insurance Company (“Prime”), recently...
New Hampshire’s SAN Group Hires Landry to AccessPlus Department
Nov 13 2017 // Satellite Agency Network Group Inc. (SAN), a Hampton, N.H.-based alliance of independent insurance agencies in the Northeast, recently hired Karen Landry as commercial lines placement specialist for its AccessPlus...
