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New Hampshire

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#1 ProAssurance State Rank
#38 Market Rank
$65,203,622 Size of MPL Market

CME Requirements

Credit Amount
New Hampshire requires 100 CME course hours per licensure period.

Licensure Cycle
Biennial. Renewal year based on the date the license was issued. Licensure cycle years are calendar years, Jan. 1 of the first year through Dec. 31 of the second year.rs.

Topics
Physicians must complete at least 40 Category 1 credit hours, with a maximum of 60 Category 2 credit hours. Physicians with a NH-DEA license are required to complete 3 CME hours on topics related to pain management and addiction disorder each renewal cycle.

 

CME requirements listed above were updated based on information from the New Hampshire Board of Medicine, but education requirements do change. Due to COVID-19, certain states may have modified their licensure requirements. Physicians should confirm New Hampshire’s current requirements provided by the New Hampshire Board of Medicine.

Physician Market Comparison

New Hampshire = $23,877,956
About the same as Maine ($24,373,455)
Kansas is about twice the size ($45,902,496)
Wyoming is about half the size ($11,791,020) 

Region

Northeast

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Tort Laws

Limits on damages for pain and suffering: None; $875,000 cap on noneconomic damages ruled unconstitutional
Limits on contingent attorney fees: None: Court determined unconstitutional
Reform of collateral source rule: None: Mandatory ruled unconstitutional
Periodic payment of future damages: None: Discretionary ruled unconstitutional
Statute of limitations: 3 yrs from discovery (two-year limit for med liability found unconstitutional)
  • N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 508:4

Prejudgment and Post-Judgment Interest

Prejudgment Tort Actions Rate: Simple interest at the prevailing discount rate on 26-week U.S. Treasury bills at the last auction thereof preceding the last day of September each year, plus 2%, rounded to the nearest tenth of a percentage point.
  • N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 336:1(II)
Prejudgment Accrual Date: The date of the writ or the filing of the petition to the date of judgment
  • N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 524:1-b
Post-Judgment Tort Actions Rate: The contract rate or, if none, simple interest at the prevailing discount rate on 26-week U.S. Treasury bills at the last auction thereof preceding the last day of September each year, plus 2%, rounded to the nearest tenth of a percentage point. If an appeal is frivolous, the court may award interest at the rate of 12%.
  • Mast Road Grain & Bldg. Materials Co. v. Ray Piet, Inc. , 489 A.2d 143 (N.H. 1981); N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 336:1(II); 490:14-a
Post-Judgment Accrual Date: The date of judgment.
  • N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 527:10

One-party or two-party state

New Hampshire is a two-party consent state.

In New Hampshire, it is a criminal offense to use any device to record communications, whether they’re wire, oral or electronic, without the consent of everyone taking part in the conversation. This means that in New Hampshire you are not legally allowed to record a conversation you are taking part in unless all parties are in agreement. However, the offense is considered a misdemeanor instead of a felony if the perpetrator contributed to the communication in question or received the prior consent of one party to the recording. N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 570-A:2.

Abortion Law

Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe:

Abortion will remain accessible in New Hampshire but without legal protection. New Hampshire repealed a pre-Roe ban on abortion, but state law does not expressly protect abortion.