All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 7 2009 // Louisiana homeowners could receive cash from the unused portion of an expired pot of government money used to lure insurance companies to the state, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said.Donelon estimated the checks...
Jan 5 2009 // The latest look at Louisiana’s state-backed insurance company says lack of board oversight caused a number of problems that hurt the company’s ability to reliably start, authorize, record, process or report...
Dec 30 2008 // Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company reported it will return a 20 percent dividend to all LAMMICO policyholders in Louisiana and Arkansas.Nearly 6,000 policyholders will be affected; the dividend amount is based on...
Dec 22 2008 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced it is acquiring Alexandria, La.-based Insurance 1 Inc. With annualized revenues of approximately $800,000, Insurance 1 focuses on property and casualty, as well as health and life...
Dec 19 2008 // An $849 million Hurricane Katrina recovery program hobbled by red tape and the national credit crunch will seek to issue rebuilding money directly to small landlords without the involvement of banks, officials said Dec....
Dec 18 2008 // Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. announced it has acquired Alexander & Bolton Inc., of Alexandria, La.Alexander & Bolton, founded in 1890, is one of Louisiana’s longest operating insurance agencies....
Dec 17 2008 // A lawyer was led out of a New Orleans court in handcuffs Dec. 15 after an altercation with another attorney on the rival side of a hurricane insurance case.A state judge in New Orleans held attorney J. Robert Ates in...
Dec 16 2008 // Hallmark Financial Services Inc. (Hallmark), based in Fort Worth, Texas, reported its subsidiary TGA Insurance Managers Inc. (TGA) will start issuing excess and surplus lines policies through its affiliate Hallmark...
Dec 15 2008 // The widow of a construction foreman who died in October after he and nine other workers fell from the bridge they were building filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana and two companies involved in the project.The...
Dec 12 2008 // Officials say ticket-generating cameras that photograph drivers cruising through red lights have helped make Jefferson Parish, La., roads safer in the past year.Parish council Chairman John Young says the steady decline in...
Dec 9 2008 // Hurricane Katrina’s devastation sparked a sweeping planning survey in Louisiana that called for improved transit operations, stronger land-use policies and coordinated state work to make it all happen.The 2007...
Dec 8 2008 // The former chief of Louisiana’s state-backed insurance company was booked on 14 counts of theft and released from custody on bond, as he prepares to fight allegations that he fraudulently spent about $30,000 of the...
Dec 4 2008 // The Department of Insurance Louisiana Automobile Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority (LATIFPA) has been conducting presentations at middle schools in Bossier City, Benton and Plain Dealing on Auto Theft...
Dec 4 2008 // “Technically, Brooke Franchise owes me $7 million, but who knows if I will ever see it,” said Roger Cunningham, former Brooke franchisee and agent/owner of RKC Financial in the Dallas/Fort Worth Texas,...
Dec 3 2008 // Despite the challenges faced by the state of Louisiana since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita wrought their havoc in 2005, there are bright spots in the state’s property casualty insurance industry, says Louisiana...
Dec 2 2008 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced revised online auto and homeowners rate comparison guides are now available for viewing on the Department of Insurance Web site at www.ldi.state.la.us.“The...
Dec 1 2008 // In New Orleans, a dire warning to flee emptied the city before Hurricane Gustav in early September. In Houston less than two weeks later, a plea to say in place might have kept evacuation routes from clogging before...
Nov 30 2008 // Technically, Brooke Franchise owes me $7 million, but who knows if I will ever see it,” said Roger Cunningham, former Brooke franchisee and agent/owner of RKC Financial in the Dallas/Fort Worth Texas,...
Nov 30 2008 // Technically, Brooke Franchise owes me $7 million, but who knows if I will ever see it,” says Roger Cunningham, former Brooke franchisee and agent/owner of RKC Financial in the Dallas/Fort Worth Texas, area....
Nov 25 2008 // Preliminary results of a new study by a Louisiana state agency show Mississippi River barges could be a major source of ozone-causing volatile organic compounds.The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality recently...