Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Lack of Liability Insurance Shutters Police Dept. in Louisiana Town
Nov 21 2013 // With the end of the Sorrento Police Department’s liability insurance coverage just a few hours away, the Town Council voted 5-0 to select an offer by Louisiana’s Ascension Parish Sheriff Jeff Wiley to provide...
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. Promotes Johnson, Page
Nov 20 2013 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) announced that it is aligning its Safety and Communications Departments, and has promoted Michael Johnson to communications manager and Michael Page as director of...
LA Auto Show: Connected Cars Coming Out of the Barn
Nov 20 2013 // Remember driving to the nearest pay phone to return a page? That’s about as far away from today’s technology as was the horse drawn carriage from the days of pagers and buck-a-gallon gasoline. That much was...
Access Home Insurance to Take Nearly 10K Policies from Louisiana Citizens
Nov 19 2013 // Access Home Insurance Co. (Access Home) announced it has received authorization to assume nearly 10,000 policies and more than $19 million in premium from Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state’s...
App Will Track Floodgate Closures in Louisiana
Nov 18 2013 // The Terrebonne Levee District in Louisiana has designed a phone application that allows boaters to check floodgate closures. Terrebonne Administrative Manager Angela Rains tells The Courier the parish manages nine...
Analysis: Louisiana Gov. Jindal in Shadows of Flood Rate Fight
Nov 18 2013 // Steep rate increases for flood insurance are hitting homeowners and businesses across south Louisiana, and state officials and business leaders warn the increases could severely damage local economies. Despite the calls...
2013 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed
Nov 18 2013 // State Specialists are often an independent agent’s most reliable and consistent market. These companies are focused on a specific geographic area, understand it and consistently strive to serve it. The Demotech...
Will Hurricane Katrina Legal Issues Be Resurrected in Sandy Claims?
Nov 18 2013 // It has been more than eight years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, and only slightly more than one year since Hurricane Sandy made landfall on or about Oct. 29, 2012. Following Hurricane Katrina,...
Louisiana Town May Lose Police Protection Over Insurance Coverage
Nov 15 2013 // With just five days remaining until liability insurance coverage for the Sorrento Police Department ends, officials in the Louisiana town are quickly running out of options to continue police protection for residents. The...
2 Louisiana Parishes File Suits Against Oil Companies
Nov 14 2013 // Two southeast Louisiana parishes filed multiple lawsuits against numerous oil and gas companies, claiming they failed to restore damage their operations did to coastal areas while releasing toxic pollutants, in violation...
Workers’ Comp Rate Cut Recommended for Louisiana
Nov 12 2013 // A national group is recommending that the state of Louisiana cut workers’ compensation rates by 5 percent because of fewer workplace claims among other factors. The Times-Picayune reports the National Council on...
Louisiana Commissioner: 93K Face Canceled Policies
Nov 11 2013 // Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon’s office says nearly 93,000 people in Louisiana won’t be able to keep their current insurance coverage because of the federal health overhaul. Donelon asked insurance...
New Deputy Insurance Commissioners Appointed in Louisiana
Nov 8 2013 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that Executive Counsel Warren Byrd has been appointed to the position of deputy commissioner of the Office of Property and Casualty in the Louisiana Department of...
Lack of Insurance Could End Police Patrols in Louisiana Town
Nov 7 2013 // The town of Sorrento, La., has less than two weeks to find liability insurance to back its police department before the current insurance lapses. Assistant Police Chief Ricky Smith says he has submitted paperwork to six...
Texas Brine Sued by Liberty Insurance over Louisiana Sinkhole
Nov 7 2013 // One of the insurers for Texas Brine Co. has filed a lawsuit accusing Texas Brine of ignoring warnings about the potential for disaster if it continued mining an Assumption Parish, La., salt dome cavern. The suit arises...
Industries Confront Louisiana’s Skilled Labor Gap
Nov 6 2013 // A Harahan manufacturing company has had to recruit outside Louisiana for skilled trade workers. The Laitram Corp. isn’t alone in its difficulty finding trained workers for such jobs as electricians and...
USG Insurance Services Adds Lee as Producer/Broker in Louisiana
Nov 5 2013 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and managing general agent, announced the expansion of its Louisiana operations with the return of Gina Lee as a producer/broker based in Mandeville, La.. Lee most...
BP Oil Spill Settlement Opponents Ask Court to Rescind Approval
Nov 4 2013 // Opponents of BP Plc’s $9.2 billion partial settlement of private-party claims from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill are set to ask a U.S. appeals court to reverse a judge’s approval of the agreement. The...
Business Moves
Nov 4 2013 // Aspen Re Bermuda-based Aspen Reinsurance, the reinsurance segment of Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd., has formed Rock Re, a new dedicated brokered property facultative unit within its U.S. operation. Rock Re will build on...
Louisiana Citizens Insurance Settles Remaining 2005 Hurricane Claims
Nov 1 2013 // A state-run insurance company of last resort in Louisiana has settled the remaining claims in a class-action lawsuit tied to how it handled claims after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. The New Orleans Advocate reports...
