All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 16 2025 // Insured losses from natural catastrophes will surpass US$100 billion mark in 2025 for the sixth consecutive year – driven mainly by January’s record Los Angeles wildfires as well as severe convective storms (SCS)...
Dec 12 2025 // More than one million State Fam auto insurance policyholders in Louisiana should see a decrease in premiums in 2026, as Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple approved the carrier’s request for a 5.9% average rate...
Dec 11 2025 // The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ordered Wednesday in an emphatic ruling.U.S. District Judge Charles...
Dec 11 2025 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple approved SureChoice Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange and Elevate Reciprocal Exchange’s requests for a 7.5% average rate decrease on the carriers’ more than 73,000...
Dec 9 2025 // A Louisiana anti-fraud law will serve as the new national model for fighting insurance fraud.The National Council of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) has adopted Louisiana‘s amended insurance fraud law as its new...
Dec 4 2025 // Amynta Group has completed its acquisition of commercial surety broker Global Surety, LLC, International Sureties Limited and International Sureties SARL (collectively, “International Sureties”). International...
Dec 2 2025 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) is holding an Insurance Pop-Up Office from 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 2, and Wednesday, Dec. 3., for residents of Lake Charles and the surrounding area.The event...
Nov 20 2025 // Approximately 12,000 Louisiana Allstate customers will soon see a decrease in their auto insurance premiums.Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple announced last week he has approved rate decreases for two Allstate...
Nov 18 2025 // The registration deadline for the current round of Louisiana Fortify Homes Program (LFHP) grants has been extended to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20, due to the national Cloudflare outage on Tuesday, the Louisiana Department...
Nov 18 2025 // A communications contractor for Los Angeles County was blamed in a lawsuit for 18 deaths in a January wildfire over its alleged failure to evacuate residents in the path of the inferno.Genasys Inc. was accused of...
Nov 17 2025 // A Monroe, Louisiana man has been arrested following an investigation into a suspected staged-crash and insurance fraud scheme, the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) announced.Adrian Sampson, 21, is charged with 49...
Nov 13 2025 // Los Angeles County is conducting an investigation into State Farm’s handling of insurance claims from the devastating L.A. wildfires in January.The investigation was ordered by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors,...
Nov 7 2025 // AM Best has placed under review with positive implications the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bbb” (Good) of Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company...
Nov 6 2025 // The Collision Engineering Career Alliance partnered with El Camino College in Torrance, California to launch a collision engineering program.The aim is to help fill the more than 100,000 job openings expected through 2028...
Nov 4 2025 // The Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA) has selected Old Republic Lawyers Specialty Insurance (ORLSI) as its endorsed lawyer’s malpractice insurance provider. Through its partnership with ORLSI, the LSBA Insurance...
Oct 27 2025 // A federal jury found a private company running a Louisiana jail liable for the 2015 death of a man who died of head injuries he received while in custody, and awarded the family more than $40 million in damages.Attorneys...
Oct 24 2025 // Australia’s Woodside Energy has enlisted U.S.-based Williams as an investor and pipeline operator of its Louisiana liquefied natural gas plant, to tap its infrastructure experience and ease cost pressures as...
Oct 23 2025 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced it is in the process of drafting new rules on premium discounts for homes that meet some of the toughest wind-resistant construction standards. A statute approved by...
Oct 21 2025 // A Louisiana judge has tossed out a key permit for a liquefied natural gas facility that won approval from President Donald Trump’s administration, ordering a state review of how the facility’s planet-warming...
Oct 20 2025 // Los Angeles County reached a tentative agreement to pay an additional $828 million to victims of childhood sexual abuse who filed lawsuits under a 2019 state law that raised the statute of limitations for such cases.The...