All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 7 2008 // Louisiana’s Gov.-elect Bobby Jindal picked a lawyer in the state attorney general’s office as Louisiana’s new inspector general, a position intended to investigate executive branch fraud and...
Jan 4 2008 // Former Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley faces state ethics charges for going on hunting and fishing trips as the guest of a private insurance consultant.The consultant, Chris Faser III, of Baton Rouge, also...
Dec 31 2007 // Weather, directly or indirectly, was a driving force in the insurance markets for the South Central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas in 2007. With the exception of Arkansas, throughout the year the South...
Dec 27 2007 // A top official charged with recruiting insurance companies to Louisiana and helping turn around the troubled state insurer of last resort is leaving his post with the insurance department.Bill Newton, a retired insurance...
Dec 23 2007 // PeopleThe Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Co. named Thomas H. Grimstad, M.D., as its new president and chief executive officer. Grimstad will succeed John E. Lemoine, M.D., effective Jan.1, 2008. Since its founding in...
Dec 23 2007 // Robert P. Page of Houma, La., was installed as president of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA National).Page, co-owner of Charles A. Page and Sons Insurance Agency in Houma, has served on the...
Dec 23 2007 // Weather, directly or indirectly, was a driving force in the insurance markets for the South Central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas in 2007. With the exception of Arkansas, throughout the year the South...
Dec 21 2007 // At its final meeting on Dec. 19, the Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission – which will officially be abolished next month – approved homeowners rate increases for two insurance carriers.The Legislature...
Dec 19 2007 // Louisiana Attorney General-elect Buddy Caldwell said he wants his office free of politics and speedier on issuing guidance on legal matters when he takes office in January 2008.Caldwell, who moves into the job Jan. 14,...
Dec 17 2007 // Charges against a former Shreveport, La., police officer were dropped in Caddo District Court and his wife pleaded guilty to a lesser offense, the prosecutor and the couple’s attorney said.Ronald Small, who resigned...
Dec 14 2007 // Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and Gov.-elect Bobby Jindal met in Baton Rouge, La., on Dec. 12 as new allies on issues like insurance, ethics, the environment and alternative energy.Crist, who has made insurance and...
Dec 12 2007 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) has promoted Geoff Jorgensen to business unit manager for the company’s small accounts production team. In this position, Jorgensen will be responsible for...
Dec 11 2007 // The Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company (LAMMICO) Board of Directors elected Thomas H. Grimstad, M.D., as its new president and chief executive officer. Dr. Grimstad will succeed John E. Lemoine, M.D., effective...
Dec 11 2007 // A former assistant manager of the New Iberia field office of the Louisiana Department of Motor Vehicles pled guilty to allegations of federal disaster relief fraud, according to the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud...
Dec 10 2007 // A Monroe, La., couple already jailed on drug charges now face more trouble over an alleged scheme to have someone set fire to their home so they could collect insurance money to make bail.Orrell M. “Red” White,...
Dec 6 2007 // Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Investigators and Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Deputies charged three Jefferson Parish men with aggravated burglary, aggravated false imprisonment, impersonating a police...
Dec 5 2007 // A Ville Platte, La., man recently was convicted on charges of insurance fraud and theft related to alleged staged traffic accidents.On Nov. 29, 2007, a six person jury in the 15th Judicial District Court of Lafayette...
Nov 28 2007 // Property insurance rates for 55,000 customers of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will be lowered, after a state insurance regulatory panel approved the decreases on Nov. 26.The average rate decrease statewide...
Nov 28 2007 // Businesses along Interstate 10 between Lafayette and Baton Rouge, La., say they lost numerous potential customers when a gas well blowout forced detours along a 55-mile stretch.The interstate was closed Nov. 15 and...
Nov 21 2007 // An insurance company should have paid for Hurricane Katrina damage to a policyholder’s home because it’s unclear what types of flood damage were excluded from coverage by its homeowner policies, a state appeals...