New Hampshire Accidents

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.

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.

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.

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.

Miss this in heavy traffic, and a routine commute can turn into a crash scene, a ticket, or a chain-reaction backup that traps everyone behind you. "Blocking the box" means...

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.

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.

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...

The trap that catches drivers most often is thinking a bus must be fully in their lane before they have to stop. Once a school bus is stopped and using its red flashing lights...

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.

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...

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,...

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,...

People mix this up with failure to yield, and they are not the same thing. Failure to signal means a driver changed direction or lanes without giving the required turn signal...

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...

The part that trips people up most is that this is not the same as a wrongful death claim. A survival action is the claim the injured person could have brought if they had...

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...

Not a rule that only matters when a driver is going over the posted limit, and not a free pass to drive at the speed sign no matter what is happening around you. A basic speed...