White Mountains Insurance Group will be paying its former chief executive officer more than $5 million in addition to his vested pension and other deferred compensation benefits, as part of his retirement package, according to a Wednesday filing with the…
While recent news articles have detailed how retail giant Wal-Mart and other corporations appear to have dodged paying millions of dollars in various states' taxes through the use of an income-tax shelter, such a strategy probably would not work in…
The Executive Council Thursday confirmed Charles O'Leary to serve as Transportation Commissioner until December. O'Leary will fill the unexpired term of former Commissioner Carol Murray, who resigned from the post effective March 1. His term will expire on Dec. 3.…
Bentley Pharmaceuticals has won its first approval to market a genetic cancer drug in Spain, a $65 million market, the company announced Wednesday. The Exeter-based generic pharmaceuticals company, whose major subsidiary and marketing is in Europe, particularly Spain, said the…
Strong wind and rough seas have delayed by three or four days the arrival at Newmarket’s Sea-3 terminal of a tanker carrying 60 million gallons of propane. According to Paul Bogan, vice president of operations for Sea-3, the tanker was…
The American Lung Association of New Hampshire has decided to change its name to Breathe New Hampshire. Effective July 1, the change was prompted by the American Lung Association’s plan to require individual state organizations to merge into regional entities,…
Over the objections of its own committee and the New Hampshire Association of Realtors, the New Hampshire House voted Wednesday to add $40 to the price of recording documents at county Registries of Deeds to create a dedicated fund for…
The New Hampshire House overwhelming voted for a bill Tuesday that would force pharmacy companies to offer discount drugs to the uninsured or they will be taken off the Medicaid’s preferred drug list. House Bill 628 would establish a program…
The Securities and Exchange Commission estimates it will take 15 days to try six former executives of Riverstone Networks on charges of securities fraud, and it will need nearly three years to prepare for that trial - if it ever…
iCAD finished the final quarter of 2006 with sales up 5 percent from 2005. The company reported $6.4 million in sales -- $300,000, or 5 percent, more than the $6.1 million in sales it reported at the same time in…
