Latest Louisiana Headlines
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OSHA: Louisiana Bag Maker Exposed Workers to Amputation Hazards
Oct 9 2015 // Federal safety officials have cited Bancroft Bags Inc. in West Monroe, La., for failing to protect workers from amputation hazards. The company has been fined $84,000. Bancroft was cited for 16 serious violations on Oct....
Report Shows 120 Louisiana Workplace Fatalities in 2014
Oct 6 2015 // A new federal report says 120 Louisiana workers died on the job last year — six more than in 2013. New Orleans City Business reports that the Bureau of Labor Statistics found the largest number of such deaths — 37 —...
Big ‘I’ Agents Install Louisiana’s Lanoix as Chairman
Oct 5 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (Big “I”) installed a new leadership team over the weekend with Randy Lanoix of Louisiana as chairman. The agents’ group also installed Spencer...
UPC Insurance to Buy Interboro for $57M
Sep 30 2015 // United Insurance Holdings Corp. (UPC Insurance) said it will pay $57 million for Interboro Insurance Co., a New York-based property/casualty insurer licensed to operate in four states and Washington, D.C. The deal involves...
Safeco Names Brown Territory Manager in Louisiana
Sep 28 2015 // Kevin Brown has joined Safeco’s Central Region Distribution team as a territory manager in Louisiana. Brown has over 14 years of experience in insurance and is experienced in workers’ compensation underwriting...
Louisiana’s Eustis Insurance & Benefits Expanding to Dallas
Sep 27 2015 // Metairie, La.-based Eustis Insurance & Benefits Inc. is opening a new branch office in Dallas on October 1. Eustis president Tommy McMahon explained his company’s expansion into Texas is part of a comprehensive...
Louisiana P/C Commission: Worker’s Comp Market ‘Remains Competitive’
Sep 25 2015 // In its annual report to the Legislature for 2014-2015, the Louisiana Property & Casualty Insurance Commission noted that the workers’ compensation market in the state “remains competitive.” There were...
Southwest Louisiana Town Still Struggles a Decade after Hurricane Rita
Sep 24 2015 // Vacant slabs, weed-choked lots and solitary stairs to nowhere permeate Cameron, a tiny town in southwest Louisiana. All that remains of the Klean-N-Kruise car wash is a rusted white sign overlooking an empty, overgrown...
Texas Goes From Drought to Flood to Drought in 60 Days
Sep 23 2015 // Across eastern Texas, parts of Louisiana and Mississippi the land went from moist to parched in a matter of weeks. Drought, which had been eradicated in Texas last spring, returned and spread across the South, reaching as...
People – South Central
Sep 21 2015 // The Texas-based agency partnership, Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), is expanding into Nebraska and elected Rick Elliott to serve as central regional vice president. Elliott is the owner and president of Elliott...
Louisiana Worker’s Comp Market ‘Remains Competitive’
Sep 21 2015 // In its annual report to the Legislature for 2014-2015, the Louisiana Property & Casualty Insurance Commission noted that the workers’ compensation market in the state “remains competitive.” There were...
Fire Insurance Rates to Drop in Louisiana Parish after Upgrade
Sep 16 2015 // The cost of fire insurance will drop for homeowners in the Holiday Village area of Rapides Parish Fire District 4 in Louisiana. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says the rate reductions in fire insurance premiums are set...
Louisiana Commissioner: Healthcare Connections Unrelated to Health CO-Op
Sep 10 2015 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says Louisiana Healthcare Connections is open for business in the state and should not be confused with the Louisiana Health Cooperative, a struggling health maintenance...
Ag Losses in Louisiana from Feral Hogs Estimated at $74M
Sep 8 2015 // Feral hogs cost Louisiana farmers more than $74 million in crop losses and other damage in 2013, according to a new study by the LSU AgCenter. AgCenter economist Shaun Tanger, who’s been gathering data from farmers...
Hurricane Katrina: Every Number Tells a Story
Sep 7 2015 // In a 25-year span leading up to 2005, homeowners insurers in Louisiana wrote a total of $13 billion in homeowners insurance premium, from which they earned $1 billion in profit, according to the chief actuary at the state...
Louisiana Regulators Take Over Health Insurance CO-OP
Sep 2 2015 // The 19th Judicial District Court granted an Order of Rehabilitation and Injunctive Relief giving Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon possession and control of the Louisiana Health Cooperative Inc. (LAHC, aka CO-OP), the...
Zewe, Jordan Named to Leadership Posts at Louisiana DOI
Sep 2 2015 // Jeffrey Zewe has been appointed deputy commissioner of the newly formed Office of Consumer Services at the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) and Darie Jordan has been named director of the Louisiana Automobile Theft...
$2.3M-Plus Recovered for Louisiana Insurance Consumers
Sep 1 2015 // In the first six months of 2015, the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) recovered an additional $2.37 million for insurance policyholders. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says the funds are the result of LDI staff...
Competition Increases in Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Race
Aug 31 2015 // Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has picked up another challenge to his fall re-election bid. Charlotte McDaniel McGehee, a Democrat and lawyer from Baton Rouge, announced her candidacy this week. In a statement, McGehee...
Louisiana’s Bayou Chene to Get Permanent Flood Control Structure
Aug 27 2015 // Funds from the settlement over BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 will be used to construct a permanent flood control structure in Bayou Chene. The Courier reports the structure will protect St. Mary and several...
