Lebanon News

N.H. Chief Justice Hopes to Open Business Court This Year

New Hampshire’s chief justice is praising a new law that allows the state to create a business court and he’s hoping to have the new court operating this year. The court would handle only complaints between businesses and would not …

N.H. Biker Recovering after Collision with Turkey

A motorcyclist from Keene, New Hampshire is nursing broken bones after a wild turkey flew into him and knocked him off his bike during the weekend. State police said the turkey flew out of the woods and struck 62-year-old Frank …

$30M Suit Filed In Md. Hotel Carbon Monoxide Deaths

A Lebanon, Pa., woman whose husband and 10-year-old daughter were killed by a carbon monoxide leak at an Ocean City, Maryland motel room has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against four companies. The lawsuit seeking $30 million dollars in damages …

Business Moves

Lighthouse Underwriters, Cooley and Darling Cooley and Darling Insurance Agency Inc., a new retail agency based in Haymarket, Va., has acquired the retail book of non-profit business from Lighthouse Underwriters LLC, a member company of U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. …

Pa.’s Lebanon Mutual Insurance Plans Conversion to Stock Company

The board of directors of Lebanon Mutual Insurance Co. of Cleona, Pa., has adopted a plan to convert the insurer from a mutual to a stock organization. Under the plan, Lebanon will convert from a Pennsylvania mutual insurance company to …

N.H. Firm High-tech Helmet Tracks Sports, Military Brain Injuries

A high-tech helmet invented by a New Hampshire company is helping football teams and the military learn more about head injuries. The helmet and sensors created by research-and-development company Simbex LLC in Lebanon, N.H., measures and records the force of …

Ratings Roundup: Montpelier Re, Arab Re, Cyrus Re (debt)

Fitch Ratings today upgraded the senior debt rating of Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: MRH) to ‘BBB’ from ‘BBB-‘. At the same time, Fitch upgraded MRH’s long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘BBB+’ from ‘BBB’. Fitch also upgraded the Insurer …

Lessons learned and applied

Among lessons that local businesses have learned and are putting into practice are: Get a plan. Officials with several Midstate companies that do business along the coast say they are offering training and providing educational materials for employees in hurricane-prone …

Lessons learned and applied

Among lessons that local businesses have learned and are putting into practice are: Get a plan. Officials with several Midstate companies that do business along the coast say they are offering training and providing educational materials for employees in hurricane-prone …

Tenn. Businesses Protect Coastal Operations from Storms

It took O’Charley’s regional operations director in Hattiesburg, Miss., most of a week to get in touch with the restaurant chain’s Nashville, Tenn. headquarters after Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast two summers ago. This summer, though, Dan Hunter has …