New Hampshire firefighter uses right to know to achieve $52M refund

Dave Lang knew the critical documents existed that would help him prove his argument, but even still, it was no small feat making them public.

Lang, the former president of the state firefighters’ union, had inside information about a government insurance risk pool manager that he believed was holding on to too much of its member municipalities’ and school districts’ surplus premiums.

“At the beginning of the year, you guess what you’re going to need and you get money from people” through health insurance premiums, Lang said. “At the end, if you have money left over, you gotta give it back.”

He learned this because he’d been a member of HealthTrust’s board of directors, until he resigned in protest in 2003. But before anyone would believe him, he said, he needed to shed light on the information he’d seen as a trustee.

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