All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 6 2006 // GOP hopeful DeAnne Henke of Lafayette, has withdrawn her name from the race for Louisiana insurance commissioner.Henke, an investment advisor, issued a statement Tuesday saying that she is withdrawing and is endorsing Sen....
Sep 5 2006 // Bridgestone Corp. of Nashville, Tenn. says the force of Hurricane Katrina — not faulty installation of new roofing materials — caused the destruction of the roof of the Louisiana Superdome.The Louisiana Stadium &...
Sep 5 2006 // Louisiana’s oyster harvesters have asked for federal approval of a crop insurance plan for their business.“For as little as $100, you could get catastrophic coverage,” said Mike Voisin, chairman of the...
Sep 4 2006 // The Midwest is not affected by hurricanes or hurricane seasons because obviously our only coastal regions involve the Great Lakes, not oceans. The central region of this country does have its own natural disasters in the...
Sep 4 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina, the insurance in-dustry says that nearly 95 percent of homeowners insurance claims have been settled in Louisiana and Mississippi, insurance companies have paid billions in storm damage...
Sep 4 2006 // The Midwest is not affected by hurricanes or hurricane seasons because obviously our only coastal regions involve the Great Lakes, not oceans. The central region of this country does have its own natural disasters in the...
Sep 4 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina, the insurance industry says that nearly 95 percent of homeowners insurance claims have been settled in Louisiana and Mississippi, insurance companies have paid billions in storm damage...
Sep 4 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina, the insurance in-dustry says that nearly 95 percent of homeowners insurance claims have been settled in Louisiana and Mississippi, insurance companies have paid billions in storm damage...
Sep 4 2006 // 08/29/2006The national day of remembrance for all the victims of Hurricane Katrina and those who gave of their time and energy to save lives and help rebuild. $57 billionThe estimate of overall insured losses for damage to...
Sep 4 2006 // Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma all experienced higher rates of workplace fatalities in 2005, as compared to 2004. However, the total number of workplace deaths dropped by 15 in Louisiana last year. Transportation-related...
Sep 4 2006 // With his state still in recovery mode after last year’s Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon is arguably one of the busiest state insurance regulators in the U.S. While...
Sep 4 2006 // Inadequate words— The Louisiana Supreme Court, ruling that the one-year Hurricane Katrina and Rita claims extension period in Louisiana is legitimate and “both appropriate and reasonable in order to protect the...
Sep 4 2006 // While significant problems persist-severe damage to public infrastructure and reduced populations continue to present challenges-the billions of dollars in claims paid to date are helping fuel an increase in residential...
Sep 4 2006 // Hurricanes Katrina and Rita exposed many misconceptions and misunderstandings that consumers had, or claimed to have had, with respect to their insurance coverage for hurricane related damage. The aftermath of these two...
Sep 4 2006 // There are “35 million people living along the hurricane-prone coast that stretches from North Carolina to Texas. Half of these live in Florida, 10 million on the Atlantic coast and seven million on the Gulf coast....
Sep 1 2006 // A proposed health care overhaul in the New Orleans area after Hurricane Katrina centers on the creation of “medical homes” – community clinics, health centers and other neighborhood facilities to...
Aug 31 2006 // The line of people suing insurance companies – just in case something derails Louisiana’s one-year extension of the deadline for victims of last year’s hurricanes – spilled out of the clerk of...
Aug 31 2006 // A Louisiana state agency doling out $7.5 billion in federal housing aid to hurricane victims shut down its online application system after it discovered personal information was inadvertently being shared with others.The...
Aug 29 2006 // On the third floor of a dark brick apartment building in Fall River, Mass., in the one-bedroom unit where she lives by herself, Theresa Reed maintains the trappings of cozy home life: a photo of a granddaughter on...
Aug 29 2006 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance has issued an updated statewide estimate of reported claims and insured losses paid-to-date (information as of July 31, 2006) for damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana. This...