All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 8 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) of Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC), headquartered in Baton Rouge, La. The outlook for this rating is stable....
Apr 7 2011 // Nine people have been arrested in the Lafayette, La.-area and accused of staging auto wrecks to collect insurance proceeds. State police say the allegations include preparing and submitting fake medical bills, claiming...
Apr 6 2011 // States with the most violence are spending billions of dollars on medical care and prisons and recording lower productivity than more peaceful states, according to a new study on the effects of peace and violence on the...
Apr 4 2011 // Louisiana insurance regulators rejected a rate increase from the state’s largest insurer of homes, but the board of the state’s property insurer of last resort approved a rate hike, albeit smaller than the one...
Mar 31 2011 // A state appeals court must reconsider its ruling that the Legislature acted unconstitutionally when it covered nurses who are certified to diagnose illness and prescribe medicine under Louisiana’s $500,000 cap on...
Mar 30 2011 // Louisiana has signed on to a multistate settlement over American International Group’s (AIG) admitted practice of under reporting workers’ compensation insurance premiums. Louisiana is slated to receive...
Mar 28 2011 // A gain of 3,000 construction jobs from January to February contributed to the largest over-the-year gain in seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs in Louisiana in more than two years, the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC)...
Mar 25 2011 // Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration in Louisiana is opting out of creating the state insurance exchanges included in the new federal health overhaul, instead deciding the federal government should administer...
Mar 24 2011 // Louisiana insurance regulators have rejected a rate increase from the state’s largest insurer of homes.State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. wanted an average 14.3 percent rate hike for its 301,000 customers who get...
Mar 23 2011 // A Deville, La., insurance agent has been accused of attempting to defraud insurers by submitting false business and receiving more than $127,000 in unearned commissions.Robert Lee Daniel III, 29, was served on March 18 by...
Mar 21 2011 // The governing board of Louisiana’s insurer of last resort has approved an average 6.5 percent annual rate increase for its 119,000 homeowners’ policies.Higher rates for those homeowners covered by Louisiana...
Mar 21 2011 // The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent refusal to hear a workers’ compensation insurance case that concerned an illegal immigrant who had sought coverage after a workplace accident means states are left to decide the...
Mar 15 2011 // The U.S. Small Business Administration reports that in 2008 nearly 400 thousand small businesses were operating in Louisiana, representing 97.4 percent of the state’s employers.A report released in February by the...
Mar 11 2011 // Louisiana will divide a $30 million BP grant for tourism marketing among all of the state’s parishes and will use a small slice to help fund an out-of-state spring tourism ad campaign sought by Lt. Gov. Jay...
Mar 11 2011 // Brown & Brown of Louisiana Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the insurance agency assets of Robert Ellis & Associates Inc. of Mandeville, La., the companies...
Mar 9 2011 // Cracks have formed in a Cocodrie, La., levee, one of the newest to be constructed as part of the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane-protection system.Levee officials say the cracks aren’t serious enough to cause a...
Mar 7 2011 // The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to hear a workers’ compensation insurance case that concerned an illegal immigrant in Louisiana who had sought coverage after a workplace accident. The Court’s refusal...
Mar 4 2011 // Repairs are beginning in Louisiana on the first home that contains defective drywall made by a major manufacturer. The home to be repaired by Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin is in Covington. The repairs are slated to begin...
Mar 3 2011 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that the 2010 online auto and homeowners rate comparison guides are now available for viewing on the Department of Insurance Web site at www.ldi.la.gov.The...
Mar 3 2011 // The vice chairman of a task force set up by President Barack Obama to restore the Gulf Coast criticized BP PLC this week for what he described as the oil company’s increasing reluctance to repair the damage inflicted...