New Hampshire News

Accidents Bring New Calls for Helmet Law in Iowa

A recent spate of motorcycle accidents have prompted renewed calls for an Iowa helmet law. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reported Iowa, Illinois and New Hampshire are the only states without helmet laws, even to protect their youngest residents. …

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U.S. Launches Pre-Existing Condition Health Insurance Plan

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today the launch of a Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) that will offer coverage to uninsured Americans who have been unable to obtain health coverage because of a pre-existing health …

Avoca Insurance Holdings Launches Specialty Programs Subsidiary

Avoca Insurance Holdings has established Manchester Specialty Programs Inc.(MSP) as a national programs platform based in New Hampshire. The company will focus on providing a comprehensive range of coverage to specialty industry sectors in partnership with highly rated carriers. Manchester …

Willis Programs, Krause and Butt Launch RecycleGuard in Ontario

Willis Programs of New Hampshire, Inc., a unit of Willis Group Holdings, announced that it has signed an agreement with Krause and Butt Insurance Brokers Limited of Barrie, Ontario, Canada to offer the RecycleGuard program exclusively in Ontario. Willis described …

Accidents Bring New Calls for Helmet Law in Iowa

A recent spate of motorcycle accidents have prompted renewed calls for an Iowa helmet law. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reports Iowa, Illinois and New Hampshire are the only states without helmet laws, even to protect their youngest residents. …

11 East Coast States Hold BP Responsible for Oil Disaster Claims

Eleven East Coast states have told BP they will hold it responsible for any losses caused by its still-growing oil spill in the Gulf, Connecticut’s attorney general said Monday. “Even without oil actually reaching the Connecticut shoreline, this massive oil …

Avoca Insurance Forms Manchester Specialty Programs

Avoca Insurance Holdings has established Manchester Specialty Programs Inc. (MSP) as a national programs platform. William D. Thompson has been named president and CEO of the organization. Thompson is directly responsible for the development and management of all program business. …

Zurich Forms Agreement With Marsh for East Coast Lawyers’ Program

Zurich has appointed insurance broker Marsh U.S. Consumer, as the new administrator for its Programs & Direct Markets’ lawyers’ professional liability program. Marsh will be the administrator for attorneys in Conn., Maine, Mass., N.H., N.Y., Pa., R.I., and Vt. Attorneys …

Chemical BPA Used In Most Food Can Linings Raises Concerns

Yolande Sprague could be forgiven for feeling virtuous. Four years ago, just after giving birth to her second child, the Dover, new Hampshire stay-at-home mom heard about BPA, a chemical inside some plastics that can leach into water or food …