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Louisiana Flood Victims Still Waiting for Federal Recovery Grants
Feb 20 2019 // The month-long partial federal government shutdown likely further delayed aid grants to homeowners still trying to recover from the 2016 flooding, Louisiana’s top disaster recovery official said. As many as 6,000...
Round 12: Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Shedding More Policies
Feb 20 2019 // Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort has completed another round of policy depopulation — its 12th, the state insurance department announced. Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens) offers...
Louisiana Insurance Exec Charged with Theft of Nearly $1M
Feb 18 2019 // An insurance business owner and former official for a Louisiana port has been arrested for stealing nearly $1 million from his clients, authorities said. Kristian Gaudet, 45, of Cut Off, Louisiana, was charged with two...
State Farm to Lower Auto Insurance Rates in Louisiana
Feb 18 2019 // Beginning in April, Louisiana customers of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. will see a decrease in their auto insurance rates, the insurance department announced. The department reported that Insurance...
Business Moves
Feb 18 2019 // National AmWINS, The Flood Agency Specialty insurance broker AmWINS Group has agreed to acquire The Flood Insurance Agency, a Florida-based managing general agency that specializes in private market flood insurance. The...
Mississippi Sues Federal Government Over River Flooding
Feb 14 2019 // The state of Mississippi on Monday sued the federal government, claiming a dam complex in Louisiana that keeps the Mississippi River from changing course is harming state land. The suit seeks at least $25 million in...
State Farm to Again Lower Auto Insurance Rates in Louisiana
Feb 8 2019 // Beginning in April, Louisiana customers of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. will see a decrease in their auto insurance rates, the insurance department announced. It will be the third rated decrease filed by the...
Alleged 2018 Staged Vehicle Crash Leads to Arrest of 4 in Louisiana
Feb 7 2019 // Detectives with the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit – Lafayette Field Office on Jan. 31 arrested four Crowley residents in relation to a vehicle crash that authorities say was staged in an...
Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Afable Names 3 to Leadership Team
Feb 6 2019 // Wisconsin’s new insurance commissioner, Mark Afable, has made three additional appointments to the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance’s (OCI) leadership team Nathan Houdek has been tapped to serve as...
Louisiana Insurance Exec Arrested for Theft of Nearly $1M
Feb 5 2019 // An insurance business owner and former official for a Louisiana port has been arrested for stealing nearly $1 million from his clients, authorities said. Kristian Gaudet, 45, of Cut Off, was charged with two counts of...
Louisiana Diocese Will Name Clergy Accused of Abuse
Jan 31 2019 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, La., says it will publicly identify all of its clergy credibly accused of child abuse. Bishop Michael Gerard Duca says on the diocese website that releasing the list of names on...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires The Chapman Group in Louisiana
Jan 30 2019 // Global insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services firm ,Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., has acquired Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based The Chapman Group Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded...
Correction: Johnson & Johnson Acquires Assets of Strickland General Agency of Louisiana
Jan 29 2019 // CORRECTION: Insurance Journal would like to clarify its original reporting on this transaction to make clear that Johnson & Johnson acquired only the assets of Strickland General Agency of LA, Inc., and not the stock...
Report: Louisiana 4th in Nation for Pedestrian Danger, Deaths
Jan 27 2019 // Louisiana ranks among the most dangerous areas for pedestrians in a new national report. The state is listed as fourth in the nation for pedestrian fatalities in the report released by Smart Growth America. In Louisiana,...
Louisiana Joins Oklahoma in Seeking Premium Payment Relief for Government Workers
Jan 25 2019 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner James Donelon on Jan. 25 issued a bulletin to insurers operating in his state, asking that they help out policyholders affected by the federal government shutdown by “exercising...
Fans File Blown-Call Lawsuit Seeking Do-Over of Rams-Saints Game
Jan 24 2019 // In the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary pass, two New Orleans Saints season ticket holders asked a judge on Tuesday to order the NFL commissioner to reverse the results of the NFC championship game that sent the Los Angeles...
Louisiana’s Insurance Commissioner Draws GOP Challenger
Jan 24 2019 // Louisiana’s insurance commissioner has drawn a challenger from within his own party. Republican Tim Temple announced he will run for the office on the Oct. 12 ballot, seeking to oust GOP incumbent Jim...
BLS Survey Shows Louisiana Workplaces Among the Safest in 2017
Jan 22 2019 // According to a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) survey, Louisiana remained one of the safest states in which to work, the Louisiana Workforce Commission reported. The state’s rate of non-fatal accidents and...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Interstate Insurance Underwriters in Louisiana
Jan 18 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Shreveport, Louisiana-based Interstate Insurance Underwriters LLC, the company announced. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1963, Interstate Insurance...
Suit Targets Shell Over Oilfield Contamination in Louisiana’s Spanish Lake Basin
Jan 14 2019 // Wetland ecologist Scott Nesbit drove down a gravel oil field road in Louisiana in an all-terrain utility vehicle, zipping under a heavy forest canopy toward what he says is the source of it all. Nesbit’s target was a...
