All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 11 2011 // Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., is urging the United States Department of Agriculture Office of Risk Management to categorize the opening of the Morganza Spillway as a natural...
May 11 2011 // They call it the Vidalia Riverfront — a strip of land between the Mississippi River and the levee, with a park, walking trail, a camp ground, and $75 million worth of buildings that generate 300 jobs for this town of...
May 10 2011 // A new report says an organization representing Louisiana racing horse owners and trainers used money earmarked for medical, pension and workers’ compensation benefits for expensive lobbying efforts and lavish trips...
May 6 2011 // State officials say Louisiana was hurt more than other states by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and so should get more money than other states from companies responsible for the disaster.Garret Graves, who leads the...
May 5 2011 // Emergency officials in Louisiana are preparing for even higher Mississippi River water levels than had previously been estimated, after additional rain fell in the lower Ohio River Valley, according to Gov. Bobby...
May 3 2011 // DeRidder, La.-based Amerisafe, Inc. a specialty provider of hazardous workers’ compensation insurance, announced that premiums earned during the first quarter ended March 31, 2011, rose 9.1 percent over that of the...
May 3 2011 // Coastal Risk Underwriters (CRU), a subsidiary of Insight Catastrophe Group, will begin writing homeowners insurance in Louisiana and 15 counties in Florida. CRU provides insurance capacity to large national and regional...
May 2 2011 // Virtually all insurance policies contain provisions and exclusions dealing with events that most insureds consider so remote and unlikely that they rarely give any thought to their possible occurrence, much less what...
Apr 29 2011 // A 67-year-old Plaquemine, La., insurance agent has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for mail fraud that cost several of his insurance clients nearly $1.4 million.U.S. District Judge Brian A....
Apr 28 2011 // Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s top financial advisor has defended the administration’s proposal to hire a private company to run a state worker and retiree health insurance program, rebutting complaints the...
Apr 27 2011 // A settlement agreement has been reached with a New Orleans, La.-based supplier of tainted Chinese drywall in the multi-district litigation (MDL 2047) over the product.Interior/Exterior Building Supply L.P. and the...
Apr 21 2011 // A year after the worst U.S. offshore oil spill swamped the Gulf coast with petroleum and misery, officials Wednesday declared the hard-hit region reborn.It is still too early to know the long-term damage to the...
Apr 18 2011 // A Baton Rouge, La., state lawmaker’s law firm has been fined for violating state ethics law, by doing legal work for the state-run property insurer of last resort. Jackson Bell Attorneys LLC – the law firm of...
Apr 18 2011 // Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration on April 15 ousted the CEO of the state-run health insurance office, the Office of Group Benefits, as the governor seeks to privatize parts of the operation.The...
Apr 18 2011 // The Louisiana Supreme Court on April 1 ordered health maintenance organization Health Net Inc. to cover more than $180 million in claims by consumers, health care providers and creditors in Louisiana, Oklahoma and...
Apr 15 2011 // The administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill fund says Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood could undermine the claims process by urging a court to intervene and by making allegations that border on...
Apr 15 2011 // When a BP oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico last April, killing 11 workers, authorities first reported that no crude was leaking into the ocean.They were wrong. The disaster that captivated the world’s...
Apr 12 2011 // In the year since the Gulf oil spill, officials along the coast have gone on a spending spree with BP money, dropping tens of millions of dollars on gadgets, vehicles and gear — much of which had little to do with the...
Apr 11 2011 // Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services announced that it has added to its sales teams in the firm’s Baton Rouge and Lake Charles offices. In Baton Rouge, the company added Robert Johnston as a sales executive....
Apr 11 2011 // State officials say a federal appeals court ruling in a lawsuit involving the Louisiana Road Home hurricane relief program will allow them to move ahead with grants for about 120 homeowners.On April 8, a federal appeals...