Latest New Hampshire Headlines
All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Hampshire Roofing Contractor Faces $234K in OSHA Penalties
Mar 1 2023 // Federal workplace safety inspectors have again cited a Derry, New Hampshire contractor for not protecting their employees against potentially lethal falls, this time at worksites in Merrimack and Salem. The Occupational...
Drive Free or Die? New Hampshire Bill to Restrict Pets in Cars Starts Dogfight
Jan 24 2023 // New Hampshire is the only state that allows adults to drive without wearing seatbelts. Want to use your dog instead? Go for it, for now. While the state currently has no lapdog-related laws, the Legislature is considering...
Transgender Worker Sues New Hampshire Employer Alleging Bias in Health Plan
Dec 19 2022 // A transgender woman in New Hampshire filed a discrimination complaint Friday against the manufacturing company where she works as a machinist, challenging its exclusion of gender-transition health coverage. The complaint...
New Hampshire Body Shop Owner ‘Winging’ Own Case Beats State Farm in High Court
Nov 17 2022 // Collision repair shop owner Steve Piispanen didn’t hire an attorney because he considers them to be “not educated” when it comes to insurance law. He represented himself when he appealed a local...
New Hampshire County Defeats ‘Deliberate Indifference’ Claim Over Inmate’s Death
Oct 21 2022 // A federal court has dismissed claims that New Hampshire’s Hillsborough County, along with the nurses and outside medical providers for the county’s Valley Street Jail, are liable in the death of an inmate who...
New Hampshire Moves to Assist Birthing Centers, Midwives With Insurance Costs
Sep 15 2022 // The New Hampshire Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee approved a request from the Sununu Administration to use $252,000 in federal pandemic aid to offset the cost of premium increases for birthing centers and home birth...
J&J to Pay $40.5M to Settle New Hampshire Lawsuit, Avoid Trial Over Opioid Marketing
Sep 1 2022 // Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $40.5 million to settle New Hampshire’s claims over the company’s role in the opioid epidemic, averting a trial that had been scheduled to begin next...
Worker Fatality at New Hampshire Wastewater Treatment Plant Under Investigation
Aug 30 2022 // An electric company employee working on a backup generator project at Keene, New Hampshire’s wastewater treatment plant suffered an injury and died, city officials said. The Hamblet Electric employee was fatally...
Small New Hampshire Town Political Spats Devolve Into Defamation, Free Speech Claims
Aug 19 2022 // The small town of Gilmanton, New Hampshire and a selectman who owns a winery have successfully defended themselves against multiple claims of defamation brought by a well-known and politically active local couple. But the...
Jury Acquits Truck Driver in 2019 New Hampshire Crash That Killed 7 Motorcyclists
Aug 11 2022 // A jury on Tuesday acquitted a commercial truck driver of causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in a horrific head-on collision in northern New Hampshire that exposed fatal flaws in the processing of license revocations...
New Hampshire Motorcycle Crash Trial Hears Drugs, Alcohol Testimony
Aug 3 2022 // A substance made when the body breaks down heroin was present a truck driver’s blood just hours after he was involved in a 2019 crash that killed seven motorcyclists, a forensic toxicologist testified this week. The...
New Hampshire Joins States Suing Pharmacies Over Role in Opioid Epidemic
Jul 28 2022 // The state of New Hampshire sued pharmacy chains Tuesday, becoming the latest government entity seeking to hold them accountable for fueling the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic. The lawsuit filed by Attorney General...
Trial Begins for Truck Driver Charged in New Hampshire Crash That Killed 7 Motorcyclists
Jul 27 2022 // The trial for a commercial truck driver charged with causing the deaths in 2019 of seven members of a Marine motorcycle club will open Tuesday, more than three years after the crash in northern New Hampshire. Jurors...
New Hampshire Enacts Safety Laws to Protect Health Care Workers
Jul 25 2022 // Health care facilities in New Hampshire will have to implement and maintain workplace violence prevention programs under a new law. Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed seven bills into law this week, including a Senate...
Two 100+ Years Old New Hampshire Agencies Merge
Jul 22 2022 // Two long-time New Hampshire insurance agencies— The Insurance Center based in Claremont and McCrillis & Eldredge in Newport— announced that their companies are joining forces. The combined organization will...
Cause of New Hampshire Resort Fire Remains Undetermined
Jul 20 2022 // Investigators were unable to pinpoint the cause of a fire that damaged a popular North Conway resort, New Hampshire Fire Marshal Sean Toomey said last Friday. The determination came after officials examined the scene and...
Gunmaker Sig Sauer Loses Bid to Block New Hampshire Liability Suit Over Pistol Misfire
Jul 18 2022 // A federal court in New Hampshire has denied gunmaker Sig Sauer’s bid to block a product liability lawsuit brought by a man who alleges he was struck by a bullet in the leg because his pistol fired without a trigger...
New Hampshire Nuclear Plant Issues False Alarm During Testing
Jul 15 2022 // New Hampshire homeland security officials said that a siren was inadvertently activated at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station on Tuesday, and that there is no emergency and no danger to the public. The state Homeland...
Domestic Violence Charge Against New Hampshire Insurance Official Dropped
Jun 17 2022 // A domestic violence charge against New Hampshire’s deputy insurance commissioner has been dropped. D.J. Bettencourt, who also was a former policy director for Gov. Chris Sununu, was arrested May 5 and accused of...
New Hampshire Allows Exception to Workers’ Compensation ‘Coming and Going’ Rule
Jun 9 2022 // A worker who was injured in a car accident when he was traveling home from his job site in the middle, rather than the end, of the workday at the direction of his employer is entitled to workers’ compensation...
