The plaintiff, Darlene Gray, appeals an order of the Superior Court (Nicolosi, J.) granting a motion to dismiss by the defendant, Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company (the insurer). We affirm. The record supports the following facts. In July 2003, the plaintiff and her sister, in their capacity as trustees of the Ocean Estates Realty Trust (Ocean Estates), received a quitclaim deed from the T... More...    $0 (05-26-2011 - NH)

The petitioner, Northern Security Insurance Company (Northern Security), appeals an order of the Superior Court (McHugh, J.), denying its motion for summary judgment and granting the cross-motion for summary judgment of respondent Michael Connors. The trial court ruled that Northern Security has a duty to defend respondent Connors in a civil lawsuit pending in Rockingham County Superior Court, Rei... More...    $0 (03-31-2011 - NH)

In late 1999, J. Krist Schell and Thomas W. Kent (the appellant here) formed a Nevada corporation, Bradley Reed Lumber, LLC, to import Russian lumber for sale in New England. Schell originally had a one-third interest, Kent the remainder, and the company soon borrowed a quarter of a million dollars from Edward M. Myslik. The two owners personally signed the note and a separate guarantee, and Kent ... More...    $0 (02-03-2010 - NH)

The case before us presents another variation on the question when, under the so-called abstention doctrines, a federal court should defer to state proceedings. The appellant is Employers Insurance of Wausau ("Wausau"); the appellee is Roger A. Sevigny, Insurance Commissioner of New Hampshire ("Commissioner"), acting as liquidator of The Home Insurance Company ("Home"), now insolvent. We begin ... More...    $0 (06-10-2005 - NH)

The defendant, Assurance Company of America (Assurance), an insurance company, appeals a ruling of the Superior Court (Hollman, J.) denying its motion to dismiss a declaratory judgment petition filed by the plaintiffs, The Craftsbury Company, Inc., E. Ladd Kautz and Timothy L. Kautz (collectively, Craftsbury). It argues, among other things, that the petition was untimely because it was filed be... More...    $0 (07-24-2003 - NH)

The plaintiff, Progressive Northern Insurance Company (Progressive), appeals from the Superior Court's (Brennan, J.) order granting summary judgment for the defendant, Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company of Boston, Inc. (Enterprise). Progressive sought a declaratory judgment that Enterprise has the legal obligation to provide primary protection, pursuant to the Financial Responsibility Act, for all N... More...    $0 (05-14-2003 - NH)

This case presents, once again, see Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Metro. Life Ins. Co., 260 F.3d 54 (1st Cir. 2001), the vexing question of how to interpret an "advertising injury" clause in a general commercial liability ("GCL") policy. EKCO Housewares, Inc., a subsidiary of EKCO Group, Inc. (collectively "the EKCO companies"), markets kitchen products, some of which it makes itself. Among its product... More...    $0 (12-10-2001 - NH)