All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 27 2011 // Denham Springs, La., has improved its flood rating, which will mean insurance savings for city residents with flood insurance.City officials say improving both record keeping and enforcement of the city’s floodplain...
Sep 19 2011 // Louisiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell sharply to 7.2 percent in August from the July rate of 7.6 percent, and private sector employers added 40,000 jobs over the year, according to figures reported...
Sep 19 2011 // A Louisiana court has ordered a permanent injunction against members of an insurance fraud ring, banning them from further involvement in the insurance business in that state. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon...
Sep 19 2011 // LevelFirstLevelFirst is a new diversified wholesale broker and managing general agency based in Dallas, Texas, that serves retail agents in the Southwest and across the country. President and CEO of LevelFirst, Robin...
Sep 16 2011 // Residents in Louisiana’s Bossier Parish have 90 days from Sept. 14 to file objections with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the parish’s new flood insurance rate maps.The Times reports that the maps...
Sep 16 2011 // A Baton Rouge, La., judge has refused to block the state from signing contracts with three private insurance companies chosen to take part in Louisiana’s new health-care delivery system for the poor. In a separate...
Sep 9 2011 // Insurance regulators in Louisiana say a court has ordered a permanent injunction against members of an insurance fraud ring, banning them from further involvement in the insurance business in that state.Louisiana Insurance...
Sep 8 2011 // Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana officials say an aggressive effort by parish government to use federal grant programs for elevation of homes is a likely reason why so few homes flooded in Terrebonne as a result of Tropical...
Sep 5 2011 // After testing New Orleans’ flood defenses over the weekend, Tropical Storm Lee moved northeast Monday after weakening to a tropical depression, and threatened to bring heavy rains and flooding to a large section of...
Sep 5 2011 // Michael Crafts has joined The Woodlands Financial Group as vice president of Sales and Marketing. Crafts has more than 15 years of all lines insurance experience. He started his career with Farmers Insurance Group. Most...
Sep 5 2011 // Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort has received a bond rating upgrade from a major ratings agency.Fitch Ratings raised the rating on two series of revenue bonds issued by Louisiana Citizens Property...
Sep 2 2011 // A tropical depression that the National Hurricane Center says may intensify into a tropical storm is currently headed for the Louisiana coast. The tropical weather system may bring as much as 20 inches of rain to southern...
Aug 31 2011 // The market value of a state worker health insurance program that Gov. Bobby Jindal is considering privatizing has been pegged between $133 million and $217 million, according to an audit released Aug. 29.The assessment by...
Aug 31 2011 // Calling the crime a “despicable act,” a Louisiana judge has sentenced a 22-year-old man to life in prison in the killing of a Georgia insurance agent during an armed robbery at the Waffle House.The Advocate...
Aug 29 2011 // Fitch Ratings has upgraded the bond rating of Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort.State Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that the bond rating for Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp....
Aug 26 2011 // A federal judge on Aug. 24 dismissed a lawsuit by the state of Louisiana accusing two self-described whistleblowers of illegally copying and circulating documents containing confidential information about homeowners...
Aug 23 2011 // The Gulf Coast Claims Facility set up to handle claims from the BP oil disaster has paid out $5 billion after one year of operation.It has paid 204,434 individual and business with a total of 359,441 claims. Established by...
Aug 22 2011 // A Houma man has been sentenced to one year in prison for fraudulently receiving money from the $20 billion claims fund that BP PLC established after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey also ordered...
Aug 14 2011 // First-time claims for unemployment insurance in Louisiana for the week ending Aug. 6 increased from the previous week’s total. The state labor department figures released Friday show the initial claims increased to...
Aug 12 2011 // A Hammond woman pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining nearly $8,000 in disaster assistance from the American Red Cross after Hurricane Katrina. Thirty-year-old Tamara Morris faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in...