All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 6 2011 // A former Baton Rouge, La., man who once faked his death to elude authorities must remain in custody until more hearings in his case.The Advocate reports that Milton Windsor Harris appeared before U.S. Magistrate Christine...
Dec 5 2011 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon and Department of Revenue Deputy Assistant Secretary Gary Matherne are urging those who have had a property and casualty insurance policy on their property during the last four...
Dec 5 2011 // Some residents and business owners in the city of Lafayette, La., and unincorporated parts of the parish will soon be paying 10 percent less for flood insurance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said the savings...
Dec 5 2011 // BP has lost two big rulings in its fight to shield itself from potentially having to pay billions of dollars more in damages related to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.A federal judge ruled in mid-November...
Dec 5 2011 // Nearly 11,000 homeowners polices once held by Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort have been absorbed into the private insurance market, state regulators say.Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon...
Dec 5 2011 // A Rebounding Market“This reduction in market share of Citizens is a great indicator that the homeowners insurance market as well as the commercial property insurance market in Louisiana is rebounding from the severe...
Nov 30 2011 // Short-term hiring during the holiday season is a boon to both employers and employees, but businesses should take care to ensure the safety of temporary workers.Richard Perkins, safety and loss prevention outreach...
Nov 22 2011 // Four Louisiana physicians wrote hundreds of bogus prescriptions that powered multimillion-dollar health-care frauds in the Baton Rouge area, according to evidence amassed by the nearly two-year-old local Medicare Fraud...
Nov 21 2011 // Rice growers who lost sales after genetically modified rice seed mistakenly entered the U.S. market five years ago have until today to sign on to a $750 million settlement proposed by the company blamed for the...
Nov 21 2011 // Scott Kipper has returned to his role as Nevada’s insurance commissioner, and now that he’s back he says that fostering a business environment that helps insurance companies grow and brings new ones to the...
Nov 21 2011 // St. Petersburg, Fla.-based LIG Marine Managers announced that Richard C. Zolty has joined LIG as senior ccnsultant and longshore insurance development director. Zolty has 40 years of underwriting experience in workers...
Nov 21 2011 // Dallas-based LevelFirst has named Toni Campbell director of Marketing. Campbell will oversee all marketing efforts for the newly formed wholesale property and casualty insurance broker and MGA.LevelFirst also introduced...
Nov 17 2011 // Nearly 11,000 homeowners polices once held by Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort have been absorbed into the private insurance market, state regulators say.Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon...
Nov 16 2011 // A federal judge rejected BP Plc’s bid to use insurance coverage from Transocean Ltd to cover costs stemming from last year’s record oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Tuesday’s decision by U.S. District...
Nov 14 2011 // A federal judge Monday said Alabama and Louisiana may seek punitive damages from companies including BP Plc for damages arising from last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The decision by U.S....
Nov 14 2011 // Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp. (Lighthouse), a Louisiana domestic insurance company has acquired the Louisiana homeowners policies of HomeWise Insurance Co., a Florida-based insurer.The terms of the agreement include...
Nov 14 2011 // The board of the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has given final approval to a 22.1 percent rate increase for its 5,734 commercial policyholders, a move that could mean an increase of about $700 in the average...
Nov 14 2011 // Florida-based HomeWise Insurance Co. is now is full run-off mode as it attempts to pay all outstanding claims and other debts in order to avoid being taken over by Florida regulators.The Clearwater, Fla.-based home insurer...
Nov 10 2011 // A former Louisiana state senator who pleaded guilty to money laundering in a fraudulent security bond fraud case has been released from federal prison into a halfway house.The Federal Bureau of Prisons said Derrick...
Nov 10 2011 // BP will no longer be responsible for cleaning up oil that washes up on the Gulf Coast unless officials can prove it comes from the company’s well that blew out in 2010, causing the worst offshore spill in U.S....