All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 18 2010 // The Army Corps of Engineers will begin taking proposals next month for permanent replacements for pumps and floodgates at the three canals where waters poured into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, officials said March...
Mar 16 2010 // A Louisiana parish council is asking hundreds of companies that make money on community contracts whether they also buy insurance from an agency owned by a former parish administrator.The letters to 404 companies are the...
Mar 15 2010 // In a briefing session to introduce a package of bills supported by the Louisiana Department of Insurance for the upcoming legislative session, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon described the state’s insurance market...
Mar 10 2010 // Rhonda Lobell has signed on as sponsor for the American Insurance Marketing & Sales (AIMS) Society Certified Professional Insurance Agent (CPIA) designation programs in Louisiana and Mississippi.A 30-year insurance...
Mar 8 2010 // The company that made a 1983 recording of what became one of the New Orleans Saints’ most popular cheers has filed a trademark suit against the state and the team.NFL Properties LLC, which deals with National...
Mar 3 2010 // U.S. Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana wants to stop the Federal Emergency Management Agency from updating flood maps around communities working to fix levees found to be deficient. Vitter said many areas in Louisiana could...
Mar 2 2010 // National wholesale commercial insurance broker, USG Insurance Services Inc., has promoted Gina Lee to brokerage manager in the company’s Louisiana office. Lee joined USG in August 2006 as a senior underwriter and...
Mar 1 2010 // Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said a partnership agreement between the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and the South Lafourche Levee District will dedicate $19.8 million in state surplus funds to make...
Feb 24 2010 // Louisiana residents can apply for a state tax deduction for retrofitting their homes, as well as an insurance premium discount for building or retrofitting your home to comply with the Louisiana State Uniform Construction...
Feb 23 2010 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has announced that nearly $59 million, or 60 percent of the available tax rebates available to property insurance consumers in his state went unclaimed last year.Property owners...
Feb 22 2010 // In a move he says will prevent the addition of policies into Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s book of business, Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has approved an agreement with The...
Feb 22 2010 // A state district judge has granted Louisiana’s auto dealers’ and tire stores’ request to temporarily stop the state from forcing them to become licensed insurance agents in order to sell tire-and-wheel...
Feb 22 2010 // Terry Lisotta, who was indicted in late 2008 on 14 counts of theft by fraud from the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., was unable to work out a plea deal with prosecutors Feb. 18.Lisotta paced anxiously outside...
Feb 21 2010 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon declined to approve a rate request filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Company that would have raised homeowners insurance rates by a statewide average of 19.1 percent. State...
Feb 21 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) on Feb. 2 presented its 2010 Independent Leadership Award to Joe Straus III, speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. The Independent Leadership Award was presented...
Feb 16 2010 // A plea deal may be in the works for the former chief executive of Louisiana’s state-run property insurance company.Defense attorneys and state prosecutors said they have been talking about a possible plea bargain for...
Feb 16 2010 // The board of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation will vote in March on a proposed increase for commercial policy holders that will average 4.57 percent.Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon told The...
Feb 12 2010 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that the Department of Insurance helped Louisiana insurance consumers to recover $8.2 million in insurance payments last year.The recovered funds result from insurance...
Feb 11 2010 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has declined to approve a rate request filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Company that would have raised homeowners insurance rates by a statewide average of 19.1...
Feb 7 2010 // The Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office said an audit of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. for 2008 found enough problems that it could not issue an opinion on the accuracy of the insurer’s...