All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 1 2012 // The governing board of Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort held a special meeting on Jan. 31 to discuss how to deal with a judge’s order that lifted a freeze on more than $100 million at issue in a...
Jan 27 2012 // Louisiana State Police have arrested four people for allegedly staging traffic accidents in Ouachita Parish.Detectives tell The News-Star they looked into six of 20 crashes where individuals filed false bodily injury...
Jan 25 2012 // Allstate Corp. is asking to raise rates for 144,000 Louisiana homeowners who get their insurance coverage from two Allstate companies.According to the state insurance department, Northbrook, Ill.-based Allstate wants an...
Jan 23 2012 // The Louisiana Supreme Court says it won’t reconsider a $92.7 million judgment against Louisiana’s state-backed insurer of last resort for handling claims too slowly after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in...
Jan 23 2012 // That Texas was ranked among the bottom three states in a recently released analysis of residential building codes in the 18 hurricane-prone coastal states does not sit well with the state’s insurance regulators.In...
Jan 20 2012 // That Texas ranked among the bottom three states in a recently released analysis of residential building codes in the 18 hurricane-prone coastal states does not sit well with the state’s insurance regulators.In the...
Jan 16 2012 // Homeowners insurance premiums in Louisiana remain among the nation’s highest, but are rising much more slowly than they did in the first two years after Hurricane Katrina, new data from by the National Association of...
Jan 16 2012 // The board of directors of Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) has elected its officers for 2012. They are: Donald T. “Boysie” Bollinger, chairman; Murphy J. “Mike” Foster, Jr.,...
Jan 9 2012 // Fresh data shows Louisiana’s insurer of last resort keeps churning away on getting private insurers to pick up policyholders, a problem largely stemming from the 2005 hurricanes.For policyholders of Louisiana...
Jan 9 2012 // Louisiana’s highest court has reinstated a nearly $100 million judgment against the state’s property insurer of last resort in a class action lawsuit stemming from Hurricane Katrina in 2005.The Louisiana...
Jan 6 2012 // Louisiana State Police troopers are continuing a crackdown on drivers on the state highways who refuse to move from the left lane and allow other traffic to pass.In a recent left-lane enforcement detail on Interstate 10...
Jan 3 2012 // Radar used in the stealth bomber and to find roadside bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq is moving into the sewers of Louisiana.The aim is finding empty spaces where dirt has seeped into sewers and water pipes before they...
Jan 3 2012 // Larry Benefield didn’t attend Louisiana State University. He has been to only one football game there in his life, a matchup against Kentucky in the 1980s or 1990s.But the Gulfport, Mississippi resident owns one of...
Dec 22 2011 // An uncommon December tornado ripped off part of a hospital roof in a southwest Louisiana city, causing several patients to be evacuated, but no injuries.The National Weather Service said the weak tornado touched down at...
Dec 22 2011 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim for Louisiana grew at a double-digit rate in recent years, the fastest growth among all states in a new study by Cambridge, Mass.-based Workers Compensation Research Institute...
Dec 20 2011 // Louisiana’s highest court has reinstated a nearly $100 million judgment against the state’s property insurer of last resort in a class action lawsuit stemming from Hurricane Katrina in 2005.The Louisiana...
Dec 16 2011 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is requesting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to reconsider its denial of the medical loss ratio (MLR) waiver that the state requested earlier this...
Dec 15 2011 // Thousands of motorists were stuck on a 10-mile stretch of freeway near Los Angeles after a big-rig tanker truck burst into flames Wednesday. No one was injured.California Highway Patrol officers backed traffic up and...
Dec 13 2011 // Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE), which offers customized property and casualty insurance coverage to owners of well-built, high-value homes, announced it is expanding into Louisiana.PURE serves more than...
Dec 9 2011 // Louisiana has allowed its largest insurer of homes to raise its rates by an average 7.8 percent.State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. spokeswoman Molly Quirk told The Associated Press that the $32.2 million increase goes into...