All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 18 2007 // Outgoing Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr. has filed suit against property insurers in his state alleging price-fixing and conspiracy to lower claims payments stemming from 2005 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita...
Nov 18 2007 // A federal jury in New Orleans in early November sided with a south Louisiana couple who sued State Farm Insurance Cos. over damage to their property from Hurricane Katrina. Around the same time, a U.S. appeals court...
Nov 16 2007 // Attorneys for the Louisiana Department of Insurance filed a Petition for Declaratory Judgment and a Request for Expedited Hearing in response to a subpoena related to an investigation into Louisiana Citizens Property...
Nov 14 2007 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said his office received a subpoena for e-mails from Louisiana’s taxpayer-backed property insurance company and that his staff was working on its court challenge of the...
Nov 12 2007 // Louisiana’s Road Home program could end up buying about 7,000 hurricane-damaged properties in New Orleans, creating what one faith-based group sees as a golden opportunity for new homeownership in a city that had a...
Nov 12 2007 // Louisiana’s taxpayer-backed property insurance company will seek a new broker for reinsurance coverage because its current broker failed to disclose that it hired a daughter of the insurer’s embattled former...
Nov 9 2007 // A jury on Nov. 7 sided with a south Louisiana couple in the first federal trial in Louisiana against State Farm Insurance Cos. over Hurricane Katrina damage.An attorney for plaintiffs Michael and Judy Kodrin and a State...
Nov 9 2007 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti is suing the state’s largest property insurance companies, accusing insurers of conspiring to limit payments to policyholders after hurricanes Katrina and Rita and engaging in...
Nov 8 2007 // A jury awarded $3.3 million to six workers who claimed they were left sterile by a pesticide used at a banana plantation in Nicaragua operated by Dole Fresh Fruit Co.The workers’ lawsuit accused Dole and Standard...
Nov 8 2007 // Six insurance companies, including two newcomers to Louisiana, have applied for $34 million in matching grants from state government, in a program aimed at getting more insurers to write policies along the coast.Insurance...
Nov 7 2007 // A jury in New Orleans heard opening statements on Oct. 5 in the first federal trial in Louisiana against State Farm Insurance Cos. for a policyholder’s lawsuit over Hurricane Katrina damage.The eight-member jury will...
Nov 7 2007 // Four medical students in Louisiana are recipients of scholarship awards from the Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company (LAMMICO), the company announced.LAMMICO said each fall semester it awards academic scholarships...
Nov 7 2007 // Construction of Louisiana’s first Hurricane Katrina cottages will begin this month at the New Orleans headquarters of the National Guard, nearly a year after the state received federal funds to build them, Gov....
Nov 6 2007 // All physicians who are insured with Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company (LAMMICO) and practicing medicine in East Baton Rouge Parish will enjoy a 5 percent base rate decrease to their basic limits premium beginning...
Nov 6 2007 // The Louisiana Department of Labor has received a $10.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to assist 3,500 citizens in hurricane-affected parishes, the agency reported. LDOL requested the National Emergency...
Nov 5 2007 // Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company announced that John E. Lemoine, M.D., who currently serves as the chairman of the Board, chief executive officer and president of the Louisiana, plans to retire at the end of this...
Nov 4 2007 // Natural catastrophes — and the affordability and availability of property insurance in disaster-prone areas — have been on center stage in coastal states from the Northeast to the Gulf Coast. This fall, the...
Oct 30 2007 // Louisiana insurance regulators have approved Ironshore Insurance Ltd. to provide property and catastrophe insurance in Louisiana on an excess and surplus basis for risks located in the state.The company said it would...
Oct 29 2007 // A federal grand jury in New Orleans brought a 15-count indictment against a Louisiana woman who sold construction bonds in several states, including Tennessee, after she was barred from the insurance business.Federal...
Oct 27 2007 // Fulwider was inaugurated as the new chair of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”), with C. Brett Nilsson, and J. David Daniel assuming the offices of chair-elect and vice...