All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 5 2010 // The Hanover Insurance Group has asked state insurance regulators for permission to shut down two of the three property insurance companies it operates in Louisiana and shift about half of the affected 15,500 policyholders...
Feb 4 2010 // Despite the massive flooding resulting from levee breaches and storm surge during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the economic benefits provided by flood control measures in Southeast Louisiana far outweigh the costs of...
Feb 3 2010 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance says a Baton Rouge agent has been served with two cease and desist orders, and two fine notices, for alleged insurance fraud, bank fraud, issuing worthless checks, filing false public...
Feb 1 2010 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon has named Lori Joubert Cherry to serve as Deputy Commissioner of Public Affairs where she will manage the department’s public relations activities. Her appointment was...
Jan 29 2010 // The costs per all paid workers’ compensation insurance claims in Louisiana averaged 35 percent higher than the typical study state, according to a Massachusetts-based research group that studies workers’...
Jan 28 2010 // Pendleton Memorial Methodist Hospital in New Orleans and its corporate parent have settled a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of a 73-year-old woman who died after Hurricane Katrina left the hospital without...
Jan 27 2010 // Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort allowed too much access to computer systems, opening the door for potential fraud, and failed to take enough steps to make sure that policy applicants were eligible for...
Jan 25 2010 // Hundreds of levees around the United States protect vulnerable areas and tens of millions of people from potentially devastating floods. Yet hardly anyone gives them a second thought until one is breached. The most glaring...
Jan 24 2010 // Hundreds of levees around the United States protect vulnerable areas and tens of millions of people from potentially devastating floods each year. Yet hardly anyone gives them a second thought until one is breached. The...
Jan 20 2010 // Resolving what could have been a four-month delay to a crucial piece of the levee system around St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, the Plaquemines Parish Council has approved a plan for a small stretch of the project to cross...
Jan 19 2010 // Entergy Corp. has filed a second suit against the Army Corps of Engineers over flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina, leaving behind hundreds of millions of dollars to power systems and higher rates for hundreds of...
Jan 19 2010 // Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., which insures homes and commercial properties shunned by private companies, continues to shed policies.The company’s chief executive officer, John Wortman, said he hopes...
Jan 14 2010 // Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell filed suit in Orleans Parish against multiple Knauf entities, other international and domestic manufacturers, distributors, importers of alleged toxic Chinese drywall. Several...
Jan 11 2010 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co., Louisiana’s largest homeowners insurer, has asked insurance regulators for a rate increase that would average 19.1 percent statewide with coastal residents taking the brunt.The...
Jan 11 2010 // Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard, a Democrat who rose from small-city mayor to lead Louisiana’s most populous parish, has resigned as federal officials investigated alleged corruption in parish government....
Jan 10 2010 // Louisiana remains the third most expensive homeowners insurance market in the nation behind Florida and Texas, according to newly released data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.The average premium...
Jan 10 2010 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance filed a lawsuit in late December 2009 against Infinity Surety of Louisiana Inc., Infinity Surety Agency LLC and George D. Black (collectively, Infinity Surety) alleging the firm has...
Jan 8 2010 // A Shreveport, La.-area insurance agent’s license was reinstated after an administrative law panel found no evidence that it should have been suspended by the Louisiana Department of Insurance.The department suspended...
Jan 8 2010 // Baton Rouge, La.-based LUBA Workers’ Comp policyholders’ claims fell more than 4 percent in 2009 compared with 2008.The company said several of the top categories of accidents dropped as well. Slips, trips and...
Jan 7 2010 // On Jan. 6, the WCI Chinese Drywall Trust, an entity formed in bankruptcy proceedings of residential homebuilder WCI Communities Inc., announced it had filed suit against 14 insurance companies seeking indemnification for...