Private forecaster AccuWeather.com has cut its forecast for this year’s Atlantic Hurricane season, which begins June 1, to 10 named storms from the 12 it predicted in March. AccuWeather forecast six of the storms will be hurricanes, down from eight …
A new study has found that 67 percent of the fatalities in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005 resulted from direct impacts of the flooding that occurred when the levees collapsed, according to a report on Newswise.com. …
2007 State Obesity Rates State % Alabama 30.3 Alaska 27.5 Arizona 25.4 Arkansas 28.7 California 22.6 Colorado 18.7 Connecticut 21.2 Delaware 27.4 Washington DC 21.8 Florida 23.6 Georgia 28.2 Hawaii 21.4 Idaho 24.5 Illinois 24.9 Indiana 26.8 Iowa 26.9 Kansas …
Several bills of interest to both homeowners and the insurance industry are making their way through the Louisiana legislative session, which convened April 27. House Bill 166 was sent to the full House of Representatives after being approved by committee. …
The Texas Senate honored James Langford, vice president of compliance, regulatory and government affairs for Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies, in a Senate Resolution. The Resolution was read on the Senate floor honoring his retirement. Langford worked 40 years with …
Areas Where Agents Might See an Increase in Fraud Does a bad economy increase crime? Analysts have debated that question for years, according to Mike McKee, senior special agent for the National Insurance Crime Bureau. While it’s too soon for …
Tropical storms are unpredictable, but as the National Hurricane Center’s director contemplates ways to improve forecasting errors and communicating with the public, he is confident he has an ally at the Federal Emergency management Agency (FEMA). Bill Read celebrated the …
Louisiana House Bill 208, which would force insurers to provide the maximum policy limits for automobile liability insurance coverage to anyone driving the insured’s vehicle, has been approved by the House Committee on Insurance, according to the Property Casualty Insurers …
States with higher gun ownership rates and weak gun laws have the highest rates of gun death according to analysis by the Violence Policy Center of just-revealed 2006 national data (the most recent available) from the federal Centers for Disease …
A Louisiana House committee has challenged Gov. Bobby Jindal’s anti-tax stance, approving what amounts to a tax hike on Louisiana homeowners: a proposal to increase an existing fee added to insurance bills. The fee increase would produce $1.25 million to …
