United Insurance Holdings Corp., a Florida-based property and casualty insurance holding company, has closed its acquisition of Family Security Holdings LLC (FSH) and its subsidiaries, which have operations in Hawaii and Louisiana. FSH has two wholly-owned subsidiaries: Family Security Insurance …
A consultant says 15 additional fire stations are needed in unincorporated parts of Louisiana’s Lafayette Parish to protect citizens and keep insurance costs down. Tom Cassisa, a fire rating consultant hired by Lafayette Consolidated Government, presented the findings Tuesday of …
Throughout the quieter parts of the French Quarter, residents and businesses have posted signs that read “Caution: Walk in Large Groups. We (heart) N.O.P.D. We Just Need More.” It’s an unsettling message about violent crime in the Big Easy for …
Specialty Risk Associates Inc., based in Shreveport, La., announced that Genie Balvin joined the firm as a commercial lines renewal underwriter. Prior to joining Specialty Risk, Balvin worked as a property/casualty field adjuster, a commercial lines CSR and as an …
Police in Lake Charles, La., say they have broken up a crime ring that would scout banks for people leaving with money, follow them, then burglarize their unattended vehicles. The American Press reports Lake Charles Police Chief Don Dixon discussed …
State Treasurer John Kennedy says audits of life insurance company policies have uncovered more than $31 million in unclaimed property for beneficiaries in the past eight years. The Treasury Department discovered the benefits after comparing the outstanding policies of a …
A project to help reduce flooding in much of northern Terrebonne Parish in Louisiana is finished. Officials expected to pay more than $1 million to clean and widen a major drainage canal in Gray. The job came in about $98,000 …
Brown & Brown Inc., through its subsidiary, Texas Security General Insurance Agency Inc., has acquired Hall-Wright General Agency Inc. (Hall-Wright) and related affiliate companies. With origins dating back to 1971, Hall-Wright is a managing general agency with annual revenues of …
The state labor department says first-time claims for unemployment insurance in Louisiana for the week ending Dec. 20 increased to 2,531 from the previous week’s total of 2,506. For the comparable week a year earlier, there were 2,578 initial claims, …
The state’s largest utility needs to come up with more power before the end of 2016, and then find even more by the end of 2019 to meet the demands of Louisiana’s ongoing industrial boom. That likely means building power …
