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NH Rev Stat § 507:8-h (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507 - Actions|Section 507:8-h - Firefighter's Rule.

    507:8-h Firefighter's Rule. –||I. (a) Firefighters, emergency medical technicians (E.M.T.'s), police officers, and other public safety officers shall have no cause of action for injuries incurred during the performance of duties incidental to and inherent in the officer's official engagement arising from negligent conduct of the person or persons requiring the officer's services or the homeowner or lessee of the premises on which such duties were performed.||(b) This section does not affect such officer's causes of action for unrelated negligent conduct occurring during the officer's official engagement, or for other negligent conduct, or for reckless, wanton or willful acts of misconduct.||II. In this section, "public safety officer" means a person who is exposed to injury while acting in an official capacity in law enforcement or protection of life or property.|||Source. 1993, 261:1. 1997, 246:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998. 2013, 169:1, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 507:8-i (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507 - Actions|Section 507:8-i - Actions Under RSA 151-E:19.

    507:8-i Actions Under RSA 151-E:19. –||The defendant in any action brought under RSA 151-E:19 shall be liable to the long-term care facility as provided in RSA 151-E:19. An action under RSA 151-E:19 shall be tried by bench trial. Nothing contained in RSA 151-E or this section shall prohibit or otherwise diminish any other causes of action possessed by any such long-term care facility.|||Source. 2013, 167:2, eff. July 2, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 507:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507 - Actions|Section 507:9 - Transitory.

    507:9 Transitory. –||Transitory actions, in which any one of the parties is an inhabitant of the state, shall be brought in the county or judicial district thereof where some one of them resides. If no one of the parties is an inhabitant of the state, the action may be brought in any county or judicial district.|||Source. RS 180:1. CS 191:1. GS 201:1. 1877, 42:1. GL 20:19. 220:1. 1885, 20:1. PS 216:1. 1905, 94:1. PL 328:1. RL 384:1. RSA 507:9. 1992, 284:42, eff. July 1, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 507:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507 - Actions|Section 507:10 - By or Against Executor.

    507:10 By or Against Executor. –||An action by or against an executor or administrator shall be brought in the same county or judicial district thereof or in one of the counties or judicial district thereof in which it might have been brought by or against the testator or intestate at the time of his death; provided, that nothing in this section shall affect the right of any executor or administrator to maintain an action in the county or judicial district in which he or she is appointed.|||Source. RS 180:1. CS 191:1. GS 201:1. 1877, 42:1. GL 20:19; 220:1. 1885, 20:1. PS 216:1. 1905, 94:1. PL 328:2. RL 384:2. RSA 507:10. 1992, 284:43, eff. July 1, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 507:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507 - Actions|Section 507:11 - Change of Venue.

    507:11 Change of Venue. –||The superior court may change the venue in any civil proceeding when justice or convenience requires it.|||Source. 1907, 135:1. PL 328:3. RL 384:3.|
NH Rev Stat § 507:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507 - Actions|Section 507:12 - Liens Not Affected by.

    507:12 Liens Not Affected by. –||No lien obtained by attachment or otherwise shall be abated or in any way affected thereby.|||Source. 1907, 135:2. PL 328:4. RL 384:4.|
NH Rev Stat § 507:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507 - Actions|Section 507:13 - County Expenses Where Venue Changed.

    507:13 County Expenses Where Venue Changed. –||Whenever in any case the venue is changed by order of court, and the case is tried by a jury in the county to which it is transferred, such county shall have judgment and execution against the county from which it is transferred for the fees due jurors, sheriffs and the stenographer for travel, attendance and services while engaged in such trial, to be taxed, allowed and entered by the presiding justice.|||Source. 1885, 20:1. PS 287:23. PL 328:5. RL 384:5.|
NH Rev Stat § 507:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507 - Actions|Section 507:14 - Repealed by 1973, 72:41, eff. June 3, 1973.

    507:14 Repealed by 1973, 72:41, eff. June 3, 1973. –|
NH Rev Stat § 507:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507 - Actions|Section 507:15 - Penalties for Frivolous Actions.

    507:15 Penalties for Frivolous Actions. –||If, upon the hearing of any contract or tort action, it clearly appears to the court that the action or any defense is frivolous or intended to harass or intimidate the prevailing party, then the court, upon motion of the prevailing party or on its own motion, may order summary judgment against the party who brought such action or raised such defense, and award the amount of costs and attorneys' fees incurred by the prevailing party plus $1,000 to be paid to the prevailing party, provided such costs and fees are reasonable. The trial judge shall also report such conduct to the supreme court committee on professional conduct.|||Source. 1986, 227:3. 1996, 2:2, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 507:15-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507 - Actions|Section 507:15-a - Vexatious Litigants.

    507:15-a Vexatious Litigants. –||I. In this section, "vexatious litigant" means an individual who has been found by a judge to have filed 3 or more frivolous lawsuits which the judge finds, by clear and convincing evidence, were initiated for the primary purpose of harassment.||II. The court may require a vexatious litigant to:||(a) Retain an attorney or other person of good character to represent him or her in all actions; or||(b) Post a cash or surety bond sufficient to cover all attorney fees and anticipated damages.|||Source. 2013, 181:1, eff. July 2, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 507:15-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507 - Actions|Section 507:15-b - Powers of Court.

    507:15-b Powers of Court. –||RSA 507:15 and RSA 507:15-a shall not be construed to diminish the inherent power of any court to grant appropriate relief not specified in those sections.|||Source. 2013, 181:1, eff. July 2, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 507:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507 - Actions|Section 507:16 - Punitive Damages Outlawed.

    507:16 Punitive Damages Outlawed. –||No punitive damages shall be awarded in any action, unless otherwise provided by statute.|||Source. 1986, 227:3, eff. July 1, 1986.|
NH Rev Stat § 507:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507 - Actions|Section 507:17 - Actions Against Governmental Units; Definition; Court Records.

    507:17 Actions Against Governmental Units;  Definition;  Court Records. –||I. "Governmental unit" means the state and any political subdivision within the state including any county, city, town, precinct, school district, chartered public school, school administrative unit, or departments or agencies thereof.||II. In any action against a governmental unit where the governmental unit has agreed to a settlement of such action, the complete terms of the settlement and the decree of the court judgment shall be available as a matter of public record pursuant to RSA 91-A.||III. The court may redact the names of minor children or any other person the court determines to be entitled to privacy.|||Source. 2004, 246:1. 2008, 354:1, eff. Sept. 5, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 507-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507-A - Defamation by Radio or Television|Section 507-A:1 - Liability for Lack of Due Care.

    507-A:1 Liability for Lack of Due Care. –||The owner, licensee or operator of a visual or sound radio broadcasting station or network of stations, and the agents or employees of any such owner, licensee or operator, shall not be liable for any damages for any defamatory statement or matter published or uttered in or as a part of a visual or sound radio broadcast by one other than such owner, licensee or operator, or agent or employee thereof, unless it shall be alleged and proved by the complaining party that such owner, licensee or operator, or such agent or employee, has failed to exercise due care to prevent the publication or utterance of such statement or matter in such broadcast; provided, however, that a bona fide compliance with the laws of the United States of America, or any regulation thereunder, shall be held to be the exercise of due care.|||Source. 1959, 191:1, eff. Sept. 15, 1959.|
NH Rev Stat § 507-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507-A - Defamation by Radio or Television|Section 507-A:2 - No Liability for Uncontrolled Statements by Political Candidates or Others.

    507-A:2 No Liability for Uncontrolled Statements by Political Candidates or Others. –||In no event shall the owner, licensee, or operator of a visual or sound radio broadcasting station or network of stations, or the agents or employees of any such owner, licensee or operator, be held liable for any damages for any defamatory statement or matter published or uttered over the facilities of such station or network of stations by or on behalf of any candidate for public office, or whenever the owner, licensee or operator shall have no power of control or censorship over the substance of the broadcast by reason of state or federal laws or regulations.|||Source. 1959, 191:1, eff. Sept. 15, 1959.|
NH Rev Stat § 507-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507-A - Defamation by Radio or Television|Section 507-A:3 - No Liability for Uncontrolled Network Broadcasts.

    507-A:3 No Liability for Uncontrolled Network Broadcasts. –||If any defamatory statement or matter is published or uttered in or as a part of a broadcast over the facilities of a network of visual or sound radio broadcasting stations, the owner, licensee or operator of any such station or network of stations, and the agents or employees thereof, other than the owner, licensee or operator of the station or network of stations originating such broadcasts, and the agents or employees thereof, shall in no event be liable for any damages for any such defamatory statement or matter.|||Source. 1959, 191:1, eff. Sept. 15, 1959.|
NH Rev Stat § 507-B:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507-B - Bodily Injury Actions Against Governmental Units|Section 507-B:1 - Definitions.

    507-B:1 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "Governmental unit" means any political subdivision within the state including any county, city, town, precinct, school district, chartered public school, school administrative unit, or departments or agencies thereof, or any other body corporate and politic within the state, but does not include the state or any department or agency thereof.||I-a. "Employee or official of a governmental unit" means any member or officer of its governing board, administrative staff, or agencies, including but not limited to county employees, selectmen, school board members, chartered public school trustees, city councilors and aldermen, town councilors, town and city managers, mayors, regional planning commissioners, town and city health officials, police officers, overseers of public welfare, superintendents of schools, and all other employees and officials whether elected or appointed, and whether paid or unpaid, provided he or she is acting within the scope of his or her official duties.||II. "Action to recover for bodily injury" means an action arising out of bodily injury, including an action brought under RSA 556:9-14, whether brought by or on behalf of the person actually sustaining bodily injury or brought by any other person to whom rights may accrue arising out of such injury, regardless of the nature of the damages claimed.||III. "Personal injury" means:||(a) Any injury to the feelings or reputation of a natural person, including but not limited to, false arrest, detention or imprisonment, malicious prosecution, libel, slander, or the publication or utterance of other defamatory or disparaging material, invasion of an individual's right of privacy, invasion of the right of private occupancy, wrongful entry or eviction, mental injury, mental anguish, shock, and, except when against the public policy or the laws of New Hampshire, or both, discrimination; and||(b) Any injury to intangible property sustained by any person as a result of false eviction, malicious prosecution, libel, slander, or defamation.||The term "personal injury" shall not include "bodily injury" or "property damage."||IV. "Property damage" means a loss through injury to, or destruction of, tangible property or real estate.||V. "Pollutant incident" means any emission, discharge, release, or escape of any irritants, noxious substances or radioactive materials, in any physical state, into or upon land, the atmosphere, or any watercourse or body of water, including but not limited to all wastes and materials as defined in RSA 146-A, 147-A, 147-B and 149-M.|||Source. 1975, 483:1. 1981, 376:1. 1986, 227:9. 1995, 260:7. 2008, 354:1, eff. Sept. 5, 2008. 2018, 125:1, 2, eff. May 30, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 507-B:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507-B - Bodily Injury Actions Against Governmental Units|Section 507-B:2 - Liability for Negligence.

    507-B:2 Liability for Negligence. –||A governmental unit may be held liable for damages in an action to recover for bodily injury, personal injury or property damage caused by its fault or by fault attributable to it, arising out of ownership, occupation, maintenance or operation of all motor vehicles, and all premises; provided, however, that the liability of any governmental unit with respect to its sidewalks, streets, and highways shall be limited as provided in RSA 231 and the liability of any governmental unit with respect to publicly owned airport runways and taxiways shall be limited as set forth in RSA 422.|||Source. 1975, 483:1. 1981, 376:2. 1991, 385:9, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 507-B:2-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507-B - Bodily Injury Actions Against Governmental Units|Section 507-B:2-a - Repealed by 1991, 385:10, IV, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.

    507-B:2-a Repealed by 1991, 385:10, IV, eff. Jan. 1, 1992. –|
NH Rev Stat § 507-B:2-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507-B - Bodily Injury Actions Against Governmental Units|Section 507-B:2-b - Snow, Ice, and Other Weather Hazards.

    507-B:2-b Snow, Ice, and Other Weather Hazards. –||Notwithstanding RSA 507-B:2, a governmental unit shall not be liable for damage arising from insufficiencies or hazards on any premises owned, occupied, maintained, or operated by it, even if it has actual notice of them, when such hazards are caused solely by snow, ice, or other inclement weather, and the governmental unit's failure or delay in removing or mitigating such hazards is the result of its implementation, absent gross negligence or reckless disregard of the hazard, of a winter or inclement weather maintenance policy or set of priorities with respect to such premises, adopted in good faith by the official responsible for such policy. All governmental units, officials, and agents shall be presumed to be acting pursuant to such a policy or set of priorities in the absence of proof to the contrary. Municipal winter maintenance programs certified under RSA 489-C:2-a shall be presumed to meet the standards herein for all public roads, parking areas, and walkways in the absence of proof to the contrary.|||Source. 1995, 109:2. 1998, 249:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999. 2018, 125:3, eff. May 30, 2018. 2021, 204:2, Pt. III, Sec. 6, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 507-B:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507-B - Bodily Injury Actions Against Governmental Units|Section 507-B:3 - Compulsory Consolidation of Actions.

    507-B:3 Compulsory Consolidation of Actions. –||All actions to recover for bodily injury, personal injury or property damage arising out of bodily injury, personal injury or property damage to one person shall be tried together, and not otherwise.|||Source. 1975, 483:1. 1981, 376:4, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 507-B:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507-B - Bodily Injury Actions Against Governmental Units|Section 507-B:4 - Limit of Liability.

    507-B:4 Limit of Liability. –||I. Liability of a governmental unit for bodily injury, personal injury or property damage sustained by any one person in actions brought under this chapter is limited to $325,000. Such limit applies in the aggregate to any and all actions to recover for bodily injury, personal injury or property damage sustained by one person in a single incident or occurrence. Liability of a governmental unit for bodily injury, personal injury, or property damage sustained by any number of persons in a single incident or occurrence is limited to $1,000,000. The limits applicable to any action shall be the limits in effect at the time of the judgment or settlement.||II. The court shall award no punitive damages against a governmental unit for bodily injury, personal injury or property damage.||III. The jury shall not be informed of the limits in paragraph I but the court shall abate any verdict to the extent it exceeds the limits prescribed in this section. In actions consolidated under RSA 507-B:3, in the event the verdicts exceed the limits prescribed in this section, the verdicts shall be abated pro rata. Interest and costs may be recovered as in any civil action, in addition to the limits prescribed in this section.||IV. If any claim is made or any civil action is commenced against a present or former employee, trustee, or official of a governmental unit seeking equitable relief or claiming damages, the liability of said employee or official shall be governed by the same principles and provisions of law and shall be subject to the same limits as those which govern governmental unit liability, so long as said employee or official was acting within the scope of his or her office and reasonably believed in the legality of his or her actions.|||Source. 1975, 483:1. 1981, 376:5. 1986, 227:8. 1995, 260:8. 2007, 356:1. 2008, 354:1, eff. Sept. 5, 2008. 2018, 125:4, eff. May 30, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 507-B:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507-B - Bodily Injury Actions Against Governmental Units|Section 507-B:5 - Effect on Common Law.

    507-B:5 Effect on Common Law. –||No governmental unit shall be held liable in any action to recover for bodily injury, personal injury or property damage except as provided by this chapter or as is provided or may be provided by other statute.|||Source. 1975, 483:1. 1981, 376:6, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 507-B:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507-B - Bodily Injury Actions Against Governmental Units|Section 507-B:6 - Property Exempt From Attachment.

    507-B:6 Property Exempt From Attachment. –||No property, either real or personal, of the governmental unit shall be subject to attachment or execution to secure payment of or to satisfy any judgment entered against the governmental unit under this chapter.|||Source. 1975, 483:1, eff. July 1, 1975.|
NH Rev Stat § 507-B:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507-B - Bodily Injury Actions Against Governmental Units|Section 507-B:7 - Limitation on Actions.

    507-B:7 Limitation on Actions. –||I. Except as provided in paragraph II, no actions shall be maintained against the governmental unit under this chapter unless the same is commenced within 3 years after the time of injury or damage, except that when the injury and its causal relationship to the act or omission were not discovered and could not reasonably have been discovered at the time of the act or omission, the action shall be commenced within 3 years of the time the plaintiff discovers, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have discovered, the injury and its causal relationship to the act or omission complained of. As a condition precedent to commencement of the action, the clerk of the governmental unit shall be notified by registered mail within 60 days after the time of the injury or damage or discovery of the injury or damage, if it could not reasonably have been discovered at the time of the occurrence of the injury or damage, as to the date, time and location where the injury or damage occurred, and provided that in any case where lack of written notice, actual knowledge or reasonable opportunity to obtain knowledge of any injury or damage within the 60-day period is alleged by the governmental unit, the burden of proof shall be on the governmental unit to show that it was substantially prejudiced thereby.||II. A person, alleging to have been subjected to any offense under RSA 632-A or an offense under RSA 639:2 by a governmental unit, may commence an action at any time after the injury or damage occurs. The requirement for notification to the clerk of the governmental unit shall not apply to an action based on an offense under RSA 632-A or RSA 639:2.|||Source. 1975, 483:1. 1981, 376:7. 1989, 161:1, eff. May 17, 1989. 2020, 24:12, eff. Sept. 18, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 507-B:7-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LII - Actions, Process, and Service of Process|Title 507-B - Bodily Injury Actions Against Governmental Units|Section 507-B:7-a - Insurance Policies Procured by Governmental Agency.

    507-B:7-a Insurance Policies Procured by Governmental Agency. –||It shall be lawful for the state or any municipal subdivision thereof, including any county, city, town, school district, school administrative unit or other district, to procure the policies of insurance described in RSA 412. In any action against the state or any municipal subdivision thereof to enforce liability on account of a risk so insured against, the insuring company or state or municipal subdivision thereof shall not be allowed to plead as a defense immunity from liability for damages resulting from the performance of governmental functions, and its liability shall be determined as in the case of a private corporation except when a standard of care differing from that of a private corporation is set forth by statute; provided, however, that liability in any such case shall not exceed the limits of coverage specified in the policy of insurance or as to governmental units defined in RSA 507-B, liability shall not exceed the policy limit or the limit specified in RSA 507-B:4, if applicable, whichever is higher, and the court shall abate any verdict in any such action to the extent that it exceeds such limit.|||Source. 2003, 144:14, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|