All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 1 2009 // Louisiana continued its crack down on current and former insurance producers committing alleged fraudulent activities, charging a former Lake Charles agent with misappropriation, forgery and conducting the business of...
Sep 28 2009 // Dr. Larry Ferachi, a Baton Rouge board-certified orthopaedic surgeon who has served as team physician for the LSU football and basketball teams since 1995, has been named medical director for the Louisiana Workforce...
Sep 25 2009 // Allstate Insurance will no longer pay emergency living expenses for about 16,000 of its coastal homeowners in Louisiana who have wind and hail coverage through another carrier.The change affects about 10 percent of...
Sep 25 2009 // A Scott, La., area insurance agent has been arrested, issued a cease and desist order, summary suspension of his license and fine notice for alleged misappropriation of premiums and unfair trade practices.Carmen Miller,...
Sep 24 2009 // Two Denham Springs, La., insurance agents have been accused of committing insurance fraud, and were served with cease and desist orders, summary suspension notices and fine notices by the Louisiana Department of...
Sep 21 2009 // Unless you live in Florida or Louisiana, or regularly read the Insurance Journal, you may only now be hearing about the latest mass tort craze: Chinese-Manufactured Drywall (often simply referred to as “Chinese...
Sep 21 2009 // Fire investigators have arrested a Louisiana man on charges of arson with intent to defraud, conspiracy to commit arson with intent to defraud and filing a false police report.Lafayette Fire Department officials say the...
Sep 21 2009 // J. David Daniel was inaugurated as the chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) at the recent Big “I” Leadership Conference in New Orleans, La. He will...
Sep 18 2009 // Northeast Louisiana officials are worried that federal authorities may “de-certify” the Ouachita River levee system. That could mean that virtually all Monroe property owners would be required to buy federal...
Sep 17 2009 // People who lived through Hurricane Ivan can’t forget the haunting images left by one of the strongest storms ever recorded: condo towers collapsed in roiling surf, splintered homes or flat slabs, fragments of...
Sep 15 2009 // The Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) announced a third arrest this month as part of the the agency’s statewide crackdown on employers who are alleged to have committed workers’ compensation fraud.Agents...
Sep 15 2009 // Affirmative Insurance Holding Inc. has announced it is consolidating its corporate operations center from Chicago to Baton Rouge, La.Louisiana Gov. Bobby Bobby Jindal, Affirmative Insurance Holdings Inc.’s Chief...
Sep 14 2009 // Policyholders of Louisiana’s state-backed property insurance company will see an average statewide rate increase of about 10 percent next year, under a proposal preliminarily approved by the firm’s board on...
Sep 11 2009 // The Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) and the state’s attorney general reported the arrest of a Louisiana couple for alleged workers’ compensation premium fraud.Mauro and Keren Aguirre, owners of Escapade...
Sep 10 2009 // A Thibodaux, La., insurance agent and his agency have been issued a cease and desist order, summary suspension of licenses and fine notice for 12 counts of alleged misappropriation of premiums, the Louisiana Department of...
Sep 9 2009 // A judge has rejected an attempt to have criminal charges dismissed in a case against the former chief executive of Louisiana’s insurance company of last resort.Terry Lisotta, former CEO of Louisiana Citizens Property...
Sep 7 2009 // Louisiana Citizens Property Corporation avoided what Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon had called a potential disaster when it negotiated an agreement to pay a group of attorneys in a class action lawsuit $6 million in...
Sep 7 2009 // Texas-based Specialty Insurance Managers Inc. appointed several new vice presidents.Karen Ashton was named vice president of the Arlington, Texas, branch. Bonnie Stalkfleet is now vice president of the Granbury branch....
Sep 7 2009 // Grain Dealers/Main StreetGrain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co., an Indiana-domiciled regional property/casualty insurance company, will become an affiliate of Florida-based Main Street America if approved by the Indiana...
Sep 3 2009 // Now that the hurricane season is well underway, Louisianans remember when Katrina came ashore, late in August 2005, with a storm surge that eventually flooded New Orleans and leveled many Gulf Coast towns, costing more...