The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit recently issued two decisions of importance to employers in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. One, Rucker v. Lee Holding Co., has significant implications in determining family and medical leave eligibility. The…
As our dependence on information technology in all sectors of life has grown, the type of information stored in electronic form, whether Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and e-mails — whether on servers, PDAs or even cell phones — has increased…
I attended a recent 2007 economic outlook breakfast yesterday morning at Derryfield Country Club. As one speaker, a banker, said, 2006 wasn’t great but it wasn’t bad either. In fact it was more of the same with the economy just…
One of the largest neighborhood revitalization initiatives in the history of Manchester has been launched by the city, the Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission and St. Mary’s Bank. The multimillion-dollar economic revitalization plan will focus on the Rimmon Heights neighborhood…
So much wine, so little time… A spread like this could only be the 2007 Easter Seals of New Hampshire Winter Wine Spectacular held Jan. 25 at the Radisson Hotel-Center of New Hampshire in Manchester. The Winter Wine Spectacular culminates…
Although the Pension Protection Act of 2006 - signed into law last August by President Bush - is best known for enhancing the funding of traditional defined benefit pension plans, it also includes provisions that change 401(k) plans and other…
An adaptive reuse project, a unique screened porch and an Adirondack-style camp were singled out last month as the top winners at the New Hampshire American Institute of Architects’ 23rd annual awards banquet. Winning an Honor Award of Excellence in…
Nashua-based iCAD has given its executives cash bonuses for fiscal year 2006. According to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission forms posted Feb. 1, the board of directors for the Nashua computer-aided cancer detection solutions company approved incentive bonuses for: •…
Cigna’s New Hampshire operation has been chosen as the site for the health insurer’s national credentialing center. The company is consolidating functions and is moving its credentialing operations from Tampa, Fla., and Houston, Texas, to Cigna’s New Hampshire facility in…
Former Enterasys Controller Anthony Hurley has agreed to pay more than $30,000 to the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle a civil complaint that he participated in a company-wide scheme to fraudulently inflate revenues at the company when it was…
