All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 21 2012 // Global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired First Premium Insurance Group, Inc. in Covington, Louisiana. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Established in 1973, First Premium is a managing...
Feb 21 2012 // The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections agreed last week to modify its sexual harassment policies and training as part of a settlement with the Justice Department, which accused the state department of...
Feb 21 2012 // Mitsui & Co. Ltd.’s MOEX Offshore agreed with the U.S. Justice Department to pay at least $90 million to settle some of its liability in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the first government settlement involving...
Feb 20 2012 // “My constituents have made it clear. They want the uninsured vehicles off of the road.”– Oklahoma State Rep. Steve Martin (R-Nowata, Washington, and Osage Counties). Martin is sponsoring House Bill 2525,...
Feb 20 2012 // Two U.S. senators have filed a bill to clarify that agent compensation should be excluded from the federal health reform Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) requirement for the individual and small group markets.Sen. Mary L....
Feb 16 2012 // The city of Alexandria, La., can’t keep up with the demand for destroying dilapidated structures in the city.During the 20-month span from May 2010 to December 2011, City Attorney Chuck Johnson told the city council...
Feb 16 2012 // The Denham Springs, La., City Council has adopted new federal flood insurance maps.The Advocate reports both the city and Livingston Parish governments had unsuccessfully challenged the new Federal Emergency Management...
Feb 15 2012 // Louisiana State Police report nine traffic-related fatalities so far this year. Out of those seven of eight people who died in motor vehicle crashes were not wearing seat belts. A ninth fatality involved a motorcycle.In a...
Feb 14 2012 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) aided Louisiana insurance consumers in receiving more than $5.3 million in insurance payments from consumer complaints...
Feb 13 2012 // A former state lawmaker has landed a $150,000 a year job as the No. 2 official at the state Department of Insurance.Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon tells The Advocate that former state Rep. Noble Ellington — a...
Feb 13 2012 // Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort has offered to settle a dispute over slow handling of hurricane claims from 2005 for up to $80 million, with no more than $25 million of that for attorneys’ fees —...
Feb 10 2012 // The St. Tammany Parish coroner ruled that the death of a New Orleans police officer under investigation by the FBI was a suicide.Officer Salvadore Battaglia’s body was found in his house on the night of Feb. 7. Dr....
Feb 8 2012 // Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced that his office has recovered $25.2 million from five pharmaceutical companies that he sued alleging unlawful inflation of drug costs paid by Louisiana taxpayers through...
Feb 8 2012 // Insurance brokerage and risk management services firm Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired of Detlefs Johnson & Partners located in Baton Rouge, La. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.With operations...
Feb 7 2012 // Louisiana State Fire Marshal H. “Butch” Browning says a 55-year-old Kaplan man is accused of setting a dozen fires, including one that destroyed the vacant Kaplan Rice Mill.Browning and Kaplan Police Chief Boyd...
Feb 6 2012 // Two U.S. senators have filed a bill to clarify that agent compensation should be excluded from the federal health reform Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) requirement for the individual and small group markets.Sen. Mary L....
Feb 6 2012 // No More Funds-Holding“I have received numerous constituent complaints regarding a mortgage company holding onto funds for weeks while homeowners face emergency repairs that must be made quickly.” —Oklahoma...
Feb 6 2012 // The Louisiana Supreme Court won’t reconsider a $92.7 million judgment against Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. for handling claims too slowly after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Citizens will ask...
Feb 3 2012 // Commissioner Jim Donelon says a decision won’t be made until next week on whether the state’s property insurer of last resort will pursue a U.S. Supreme Court appeal of a $93 million judgment against the...
Feb 2 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to stall payment of a $93 million judgment against Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort, a decision that could get money within six months to policyholders who won the...