New Hampshire Business Review - April 9 2010

Gas prices continue to creep up

Prices at the pump in New Hampshire are continuing their march up from last week.As of Wednesday, a gallon of regular gas in Manchester was about $2.75, a penny higher than the previous day and 3 cents higher than last…

CPEX drops Nasulin development

CPEX Pharmaceuticals has abandoned its attempt to develop Nasulin, a nasal insulin spray and one of the company’s key potential products when it was spun off from Bentley Pharmaceuticals in the summer of 2008.The Exeter-based firm buried the news in…

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…

NHBR About Town

Some 200 people attended St. Kieran Art Center’s St. Patrick’s Day Dinner fund-raiser in Berlin. This year’s Best Wearing of the Green Awards were presented by auction host Paul Fortier, center, to Andre Belanger and Jeanette Belanger.To view more recent…

Event explores ‘imperative’ of responsibility

“Social Responsibility: Competitive Advantage to Competitive Imperative” is the theme of New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility’s annual spring conference.The daylong conference begins at 8 a.m. May 24 at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord.Keynote speaker will be Andrea Moffat,…

Gambling plan is a Hobson’s choice

To the editor:After the March 18 hearing on Senate Bill 519, a bill that would further cut Department of Health and Human Services spending, Senate President Sylvia Larsen, a Concord Democrat who previously opposed gambling, said she believes allowing expanded…