Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Sans Insurance, Police Chief Going Back on Patrol in Louisiana Town
Jan 14 2014 // Sorrento, La., Police Chief Earl Theriot Jr. and his assistant chief are going back on patrol, but without the special type of insurance coverages required for police patrols. The town’s police department has been...
Dileo Promoted to Sr. VP at Louisiana-Based Stonetrust Commercial Insurance
Jan 5 2014 // Michael G. Dileo has been promoted to the position of senior vice president of operations at Louisiana-based regional workers’ compensation underwriter Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Co. Dileo has almost 25 years of...
Without Insurance, Year Begins with Uncertainty for Sorrento, Louisiana Police
Jan 5 2014 // As the new year begins, the law enforcement situation in Sorrento, which lost its Police Department insurance coverage in November, remains murky. The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office will continue to provide law...
$1.5B in Louisiana Hurricane Recovery Aid Remains Unspent
Jan 3 2014 // Louisiana has yet to spend $1.5 billion of federal disaster recovery aid provided by Congress after hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike ravaged the state in 2005 and 2008. The flexible block grant rebuilding and...
Appeals Court to Fast-Track BP’s Bid to Halt Gulf Oil Spill Payments
Jan 3 2014 // BP Plc’s bid to block economic-loss payments tied to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill unless the claims can be directly linked to the disaster won fast-track consideration by an appeals court. The London-based...
Texas Brine Draws up New Plans for Louisiana Sinkhole
Jan 2 2014 // Records show that Texas Brine Co. has developed a backup plan to replace the cracked southern section of a protective levee surrounding the sinkhole in Louisiana’s northern Assumption Parish and may look to reroute...
Commissioner: Louisiana Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates to Decrease
Dec 31 2013 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that rates for workers’ compensation insurance will decrease in Louisiana effective May 1, 2014. Commissioner Donelon recently approved a 5.1 percent decrease...
Louisiana Judge Ends Katrina Flooding Lawsuits Against Feds
Dec 30 2013 // Dozens of lawsuits seeking damages from the federal government for Hurricane Katrina-related levee failures and flooding in the New Orleans area are over. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. has dismissed the cases. The...
Hearing: Which Court Should Hear Louisiana Coastal Lawsuit ?
Dec 20 2013 // A legal tug-of-war continues in a Louisiana state levee board’s lawsuit against 97 oil, gas and pipeline companies over the erosion of wetlands. The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East wants U.S....
LeBreton Joins Specialty Risk Associates in Louisiana
Dec 19 2013 // Shreveport, La.-based Specialty Risk Associates Inc. announced that Sue LeBreton joined the firm as a commercial lines underwriter. Prior to joining Specialty Risk Associates, LeBreton worked for nine years as a senior...
LAMMICO Declares 10.5% Dividend for Medical Liability Policyholders
Dec 18 2013 // The board of directors of medical professional liability insurer, LAMMICO, has declared another dividend for all policyholders in Louisiana and Arkansas, marking the seventh time since 2008 the company has authorized the...
BP Seeks Halt to Oil Spill Payments to Seafood Firms, Alleges Attorney Fraud
Dec 18 2013 // BP Plc asked a U.S. judge to stop payments in the $2.3 billion seafood-industry portion of its settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill pending an investigation of fraud claims against a plaintiffs’...
OSHA Fines Geismar, Louisiana Plant $99K for 6 Safety Violations
Dec 13 2013 // The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed fines of $99,000 against Williams Olefins for a June explosion at its plant in Geismar, La., that killed two workers and injured 80. OSHA cited the...
Louisiana Citizens Insurance Depopulation Highest in Five Years
Dec 12 2013 // The total policy count for Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens) is dropping below 95,000 personal and commercial policies following the latest round of the Citizens depopulation program, the Louisiana...
Deadline to Claim 2009 Louisiana Citizens Insurance Rebates Near
Dec 12 2013 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is reminding property insurance policyholders that the clock is ticking on the deadline to claim a rebate for the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens)...
Louisiana Seeks to Block Docs from Steering Patients Into Insurance Plans
Dec 11 2013 // Doctors who steer Medicaid patients into specific health insurance plans could face heavy sanctions under an emergency rule the state started this month. Calder Lynch, chief of staff for the state’s health agency,...
Imperial Management Corp. Completes National Automotive Insurance Co. Acquisition
Dec 4 2013 // Louisiana-based, Imperial Management Corp. (IMC), and Southport Lane LP announced that IMC has obtained all required regulatory approvals and closed its previously announced acquisition of National Automotive Insurance Co....
Louisiana Joins Lawsuit to Block Flood Insurance Hike
Dec 2 2013 // Louisiana’s Department of Insurance has joined a lawsuit filed by Mississippi against the federal government to try to block rates from increasing Oct. 1 in the National Flood Insurance Program. Commissioner Jim...
People – South Central
Dec 2 2013 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. announced the election of new officers and directors at its annual meeting in Austin on Nov. 11. Lorrie Cheshier, vice president/branch manager at McClelland & Hine Inc. in San...
Hogs Damaging Levees in Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish
Nov 26 2013 // Feral hogs in Louisiana are rooting up levees on Jefferson Parish’s west bank, causing damage that could pose a threat to flood protection, officials say. The west bank levee board has enlisted the help of the U.S....
