New Hampshire Accidents

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.

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.

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...

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.

Insurance companies and defense lawyers often use this phrase to argue that a hazard was "open and obvious" and that the injured person should have seen it anyway. In plain...

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.

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...

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,...

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...

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.

You may see this phrase in an insurance letter, a landlord's response, or a business owner's explanation after a fall: "This was a snow and ice liability claim," often followed...

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...

You might see this phrase on a traffic ticket, in a court notice, or hear it when someone says the posted speed was only "prima facie," not automatic proof of guilt. In plain...

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...

People often mix up actual notice with constructive notice. Actual notice means a person or business really knew about a condition or problem because they saw it, were told...

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,...

Insurance adjusters and defense lawyers sometimes treat a posted speed number like automatic proof that a driver was careless: if someone was going over it, they argue fault is...