Latest New Hampshire Headlines
All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
State National’s SNIC Authorized Nationwide
May 8 2003 // Effective April 18, New Hampshire became the 50th state to grant State National Insurance Company approval to write insurance. State National Insurance Company (SNIC) is an A. M. Best “A” rated affiliate of...
PIANH Gears Up for 2003 Annual Conference
Apr 15 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Hampshire Inc. will hold its 2003 annual conference May 21, at the Marriott Courtyard and Grappone Conference Center, Concord, N.H. Last year nearly 100 industry representatives...
NAII Lauds House Passage of N.H. Regulatory Modernization Bill
Mar 27 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers praised New Hampshire’s House of Representatives for passing H.B. 684, which it strongly supports, calling it “a bill that will make it easier for insurers and...
REM to Continue Providing Services to Home Insurance in Rehabilitation
Mar 7 2003 // Risk Enterprise Management Limited (REM) announced that one of its run-off clients, Home Insurance Company (The Home), was placed into voluntary Rehabilitation pursuant to an Order of Rehabilitation by the Superior Court...
REM to Continue Providing Services to Home Insurance in Rehabilitation
Mar 6 2003 // Risk Enterprise Management Limited (REM) announced that one of its run-off clients, Home Insurance Company (The Home), was placed into voluntary Rehabilitation pursuant to an Order of Rehabilitation by the Superior Court...
Two Bills Up for Hearing in N.H. House Commerce
Mar 4 2003 // Two significant insurance-related bills are up for hearing this week in the New Hampshire House Commerce Committee. “These two bills couldn’t be more contradictory,” Gerald Zimmerman, senior counsel for...
NAII Supports NH Insurance Regulatory Reform Bill
Jan 21 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a statement strongly supporting the new insurance regulations contained in a Bill introduced last week in the New Hampshire legislature by Rep. John Hunt,...
NAII Supports N.H. Supreme Court Reversal of Uninsured Driver Ruling
Jan 13 2003 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court recently reversed a lower court ruling that permitted compensation under uninsured motorist coverage to an employee who was injured by a co-worker while both were on the job. “The...
NAII Decries N.H. Court Ruling on Workers’ Comp Interest Payments
Nov 5 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) objected to a recent New Hampshire Supreme Court ruling determining that interest on workers’ compensation payments run from the date of loss rather than the...
Fitch Affirms Merchants Mutual & Merchants N.H. ‘A-‘ IFS Rating
Aug 7 2002 // Fitch Ratings has affirmed its ‘A-‘ insurer financial strength rating (IFS) of Merchants Mutual Insurance Company (Merchants Mutual) and Merchants Insurance Company of New Hampshire, Inc. (Merchants New...
NH Supreme Court Upholds Proportional Damage Award Limits
Jul 1 2002 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court has upheld a state law limiting the payment of damages to the percentage of fault in cases where a defendant has been found less than 50 percent liable for the injuries. A report from the...
NAII Satisfied with NH Legislative Session
May 20 2002 // Gerald L. Zimmerman, senior counsel for the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) indicated that the industry was satisfied with the outcome of the New Hampshire 2002 legislative session, which ended last...
NH Insurance Dept. Adopts AIA Proposal on Credit Scoring
Feb 20 2002 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department has validated the opposition of the American Insurance Association to a proposal to require prior written approval from consumers before insurers can use credit scoring by withdrawing...
NH Court Ruling Restores Sanity Says NAII
Jan 23 2002 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court’s January 11 decision has effectively overturned a decision made in 1999, that allowed an injured employee to collect both workers compensation benefits and sue for damages under the...
NAII Approves NH Insurer Confidentiality Bill
Jan 14 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) has thrown its support behind pending legislation in New Hampshire designed to protect the confidentiality of insurance company audit information from third...
AIA Backed Amendments Included in NH Workers’ Comp Bill
Jun 18 2001 // The new bill (H.230), which establishes scheduling criteria for workers’ compensation claims, signed last Thursday by New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen, contained important amendments proposed by the American...
New Hampshire Governor Signs Mental Stress Bill
Jun 14 2001 // New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen signed into law a bill to restrict workers’ compensation claims for mental stress caused by an unfavorable job performance review. The bill (House Bill 232) reverses a recent...
AIA Seeking Change in Credit Scoring in N.H.
Apr 27 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) is seeking major changes in regards to the New Hampshire Insurance Department’s (NHID) proposed regulation for the use of credit scoring by insurers. During a meeting of the...
N.H. House Bill Addresses High Court Interpretation
Jan 30 2001 // A hearing will be held tomorrow in the House Commerce Committee on a bill sponsored by the National Association of Independent Insurers. The bill is designed to address issues raised by 1999’s controversial...
N.H. Bill Tightens State Workers’ Comp Law
Jan 22 2001 // A new bill introduced in the New Hampshire House addresses a controversial state Supreme Court ruling that allowed a worker who became depressed after an unfavorable performance review to collect under her employer’s...
