The New Hampshire Local Government Center’s Workers’ Compensation Trust program has lost more than $17 million since its inception in 2000 and will collapse if the state Supreme Court does not overturn a State Department order that the money be returned to taxpayers.
Should the program collapse, thousands of public employees in more than 200 communities would go without workers’ compensation coverage until those communities were able to secure new coverage, said Thomas Enright, chairman of the LGC board.