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N.H. House has a full plate of bills

Workers with their hours cut should be able to collect unemployment benefits, even though they are still employed.Hospitals and insurers should collectively pay a $250,000 fee to study why the cost of health care is going up.Vendors who repeatedly sell…

A.M. Best affirms MEMIC rating

Credit rating agency A.M. Best has affirmed the rating of MEMIC Indemnity Company, a subsidiary of MEMIC Group of Portland, Maine, with offices in Manchester, of A, according to a release by the insurance company.According to the ratings agency, MEMIC…

UBS settles student loan suit for $20m

UBS Securities Inc. will pay the organization that once issued nearly all of New Hampshire's student loans $20 million, as part of the state Securities Regulation Bureau's largest securities fraud settlement to date. UBS also agreed to reimburse the bureau…

2003 letter to AG: freeze FRM assets

The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office was asked in 2003 about freezing the assets of Financial Resources Mortgage Inc. -- more than six years before the Meredith firm went bankrupt.That bankruptcy could cost hundreds of investors millions of dollars in…

Rosenberger named FairPoint’s N.H. president

Teresa Rhodes Rosenberger, director of government affairs for the Manchester-based law firm of Devine Millimet & Branch, has been named FairPoint Communications’ New Hampshire state president. In her new job, Rosenberger, whose appointment as FairPoint’s president was announced Monday, will…

Staffing agencies upbeat over hiring trends

According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the temporary help services sector added 47,000 jobs nationally in December. And since July, employment in the sector has increased by 166,000.According to data released by the New Hampshire…