New Hampshire Accidents

A nursing home can blame age, falls, and "decline" all it wants, but bedsores, repeated falls, and understaffing are often evidence of neglect, and an arbitration clause does not erase that.

In New Hampshire, a driver saying "I didn't see her" does not wipe out a pedestrian claim, but the fight usually turns on crosswalk facts, visibility, fault percentages, and how hard the insurer pushes blame.

A three-car merge crash can turn into a blame game fast, and an early ER discharge gives the insurer an excuse to downplay what shows up days later.

When a New Hampshire dust-disease claim gets serious, the insurer usually stops sounding helpful and starts building a file against you.

A work crash in heavy rain is bad enough; finding out your employer broke New Hampshire law and carried no workers' comp is where the real panic starts.

Everyone says just take the time off, hand in the doctor note, and keep your head down, but actually that can cost you wages, health coverage, or even your job if your leave...

In New Hampshire, a school custodian can still have a workers' comp claim even if the district says he "should have seen" chemicals another employee left out, but fault fights do show up when the employer tries to recast it as horseplay, misconduct, or a condition outside the job.

If you were hurt in a New Hampshire crash and the insurer is using your lack of health coverage to push you into delaying surgery, that is about their leverage, not your recovery.

A Manchester commuter was hit by a drifting semi on the interstate and now has to deal with an employer that illegally carries no workers' comp, while worrying that filing a claim could expose immigration problems.

A truck insurer in Manchester is calling your care "not medically necessary" because it wants to cut the bill, pressure you early, and use your own words, posts, and movements against you.

Yes - the one thing your current lawyer and the truck insurer are hoping you never find out is that you can usually change lawyers before settlement or trial. If the box truck...

Insurance companies and defense lawyers often point to an excessive speed charge to argue that an injured driver was careless, contributed to a crash, or made their own...

A Keene welder got hit by a box truck on a right turn, the ER said the baby looked fine, and now the insurer wants a cheap settlement before the real medical picture is clear.

Usually no - New Hampshire insurers generally do not have a blanket legal duty to translate claim papers or phone calls into your language. That surprises a lot of people,...

What trips people up most is that intent usually does not matter. If the officer or court can show the act happened - speeding, running a red light, following too closely,...

Miss this on a ticket or after a crash, and you can lose ground fast: a move that seemed minor can become key evidence that a driver broke the rules, caused a collision, or...

Insurance adjusters and defense lawyers like to throw around this phrase when they want a driver to sound reckless, immature, or "showing off" instead of simply moving with...

What trips people up most is that the officer usually does not have to prove the speed was unsafe for conditions. If the posted limit is an absolute speed limit, going even a...

If you spun out on black ice near South Willow Street or outside a Manchester warehouse lot and the city's insurer wants a recorded statement before giving straight answers,...

Like stepping into a machine before it has fully stopped, turning right at a red light without completing the required checks creates a preventable hazard. A right turn on red...