All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 12 2007 // Louisiana officials tried to ease Wall Street worries on Mar. 8 about the state-run insurer of last resort, whose financial records are in disarray and possibly lost for the last year and a half.State Treasurer John...
Mar 12 2007 // Allstate Insurance is resisting an order from Louisiana’s insurance department to reinstate 4,700 homeowner policies that the company canceled in four parishes hit by Hurricane Katrina.Louisiana Insurance...
Mar 12 2007 // Eighteen months after the hurricanes, “crisis” is the term everyone uses to describe Louisiana’s insurance problems. The governor spends much of her time begging insurance companies to continue doing...
Mar 12 2007 // Carpenter Moore, USI SouthwestHouston-based USI Southwest and Car-penter Moore, a subsidiary of The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., are partnering to provide executive liability services to public companies in Texas, Louisiana...
Mar 12 2007 // Insurance department tells company to reinstate policies11 Former Okla. commissioner arrested, jailed Fisher broke terms of appeal bond, AG saysN1 Industry gears up for more federal terrorism insurance debatesAdvocates say...
Mar 12 2007 // La. insurance regulators probe Allstate’s policy cancellationsLouisiana insurance regulators are investigating whether Allstate Insurance Co. is canceling policies without properly inspecting homes to see if they are...
Mar 12 2007 // La. insurance regulators order Allstate to reverse cancellationsLouisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon on Mar. 6 ordered Allstate to scrap its property inspection process that led to the cancellation of more than...
Mar 9 2007 // With its financial records in disarray, Louisiana’s state-run insurance company of last resort will get a new chief administrator and beef up its management with a chief financial officer and internal auditor,...
Mar 9 2007 // A five-judge state appeal court panel has refused to revisit its Feb. 7 decision to slash a New Orleans jury’s 2004 verdict that required four big tobacco companies to pay $591 million to help Louisiana smokers kick...
Mar 8 2007 // Computer problems have blacked out the financial records of Louisiana’s state-backed insurer of last resort for months, and it may have to recreate its books from scratch, state officials acknowledge.The problem...
Mar 6 2007 // The final tally for the cost of claims from Hurricane Rita in both Louisiana and Texas came to $5.8 billion. Hurricane Rita’s 120 mile per hour winds plowed into the Texas/Louisiana border on Sept. 24, 2005, one...
Mar 6 2007 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon has ordered Allstate to scrap its property inspection process that led to the cancellation of more than 4,700 homeowners policies and reinstate coverage on those homeowners...
Mar 5 2007 // Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., recently announced that his office has arrested an individual suspected of defrauding numerous homeowners in Orleans, Jefferson and St. Charles Parish who were trying to repair their...
Mar 5 2007 // The Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud Unit announced it arrested Becky Roberts, of West Monroe, in Ouachita Parish on Feb. 23, 2007, for insurance fraud (2 counts) and forgery.State Police said an investigation...
Mar 2 2007 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that Department of Insurance staff will be inspecting the properties of 18 Allstate policyholders in Jefferson, Orleans and St. Bernard Parishes who complained to...
Feb 26 2007 // In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when it became apparent that property losses would total billions of dollars, the insurance industry was understandably concerned that courts in Mississippi and Louisiana...
Feb 26 2007 // There seem to be many questions on the minds of consumers, agents and public policy makers about coastal insurance issues presently and in the future. As an industry, we have been forthright about insurance issues facing...
Feb 26 2007 // The insurance industry is over-reacting to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, threatening the region’s recovery by withdrawing coverage and charging exorbitant rates, Gov. Kathleen Blanco told a gathering of insurance...
Feb 25 2007 // There seem to be many questions on the minds of consumers, agents and public policy makers about coastal insurance issues presently and in the future. As an industry, we have been forthright about insurance issues facing...
Feb 25 2007 // La.’s Blanco: Insurance industry over-reacting to 2005 hurricanesThe insurance industry is over-reacting to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, threatening the region’s recovery by withdrawing coverage and charging...