All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 18 2020 // After a tumultuous year that included double-digit rate increases, an intervention by the state regulator and a merger, Florida-based insurer Southern Fidelity Insurance Co. (SFIC) and its affiliated entities have ceded a...
Nov 18 2020 // Metairie, La.-based Gray Insurance Co. is expanding its excess casualty capabilities with the launch of Gray Surplus Lines Insurance Co. on Dec. 1, 2020.Domiciled in Louisiana and with an A.M. Best rating of A-...
Nov 17 2020 // Dwight W. Andrus Insurance Inc., based in Lafayette, La., has appointed Erroll “Charlie” Babineaux Jr. chief sales officer.Babineaux joined Dwight Andrus Insurance in 2005. Since joining the firm, Babineaux has...
Nov 16 2020 // The federal government has designated six Louisiana parishes as contiguous natural disaster areas resulting from excessive rain and flooding, Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain said. The weather...
Nov 16 2020 // Catastrophe risk modeler RMS has estimated that insured losses from Hurricane Zeta could rise to as high as $5 billion in the U.S.That figure is slightly higher than estimates announced earlier by catastrophe modelers AIR...
Nov 12 2020 // A trial will begin Monday in what is thought to be the first lawsuit to be filed against an insurer for denying coverage for business-interruption losses caused by COVID-19 shutdown orders.Judge Paulette R. Irons ruled...
Nov 12 2020 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is letting homeowners know that its Operation Blue Roof is free, and they should let authorities know if any company tries to make them pay.The program installs tarps on damaged...
Nov 12 2020 // The Los Angeles Times and Tribune Publishing have agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit that said minority journalists and women were paid less than white reporters.Nearly 240 current and former reporters and...
Nov 10 2020 // A New Orleans personal injury attorney has been indicted in connection with a widespread probe in to a series of staged accidents in Louisiana between personal and commercial vehicles.United States Attorney Peter G....
Nov 10 2020 // The federal government has approved Louisiana’s request for FEMA individual assistance for five more parishes that were affected by Hurricane Delta, the governor’s office announced.The parishes are Beauregard,...
Nov 9 2020 // Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens), the state’s insurer of last resort, will take only a $35 million financial hit from the 2020 hurricane season because of its reinsurance program, according to...
Nov 6 2020 // A Louisiana judge has declined to stop Gov. John Bel Edwards from renewing his COVID-19 restrictions amid a legal feud with House Republicans over the rules.Baton Rouge-based state district Judge William Morvant refused on...
Nov 5 2020 // Catastrophe risk modeler RMS has estimated that insured on losses from Hurricane Zeta could rise to as high as $5 billion in the U.S.That figure is slightly higher than estimates announced by catastrophe modelers AIR...
Nov 4 2020 // A Louisiana man who admitted to burning down three predominantly African American churches to promote himself as a “black metal” musician has been sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay the churches...
Nov 3 2020 // Insured losses from Hurricane Zeta — the fifth named storm to make landfall in Louisiana and the third hurricane to hit the state in the span of two months — will likely come in somewhere between $1.5 billion and $4.4...
Nov 2 2020 // Millions of people were without power and at least six were dead Thursday after Hurricane Zeta slammed into Louisiana and made a beeline across the South, leaving shattered buildings, thousands of downed trees and fresh...
Nov 2 2020 // Mark Andollina remembers stinging rain and a howling wind that peeled the roof off part of his Cajun Tide Beach Resort on Grand Isle, the Louisiana barrier island town where residents were among the first to feel the...
Oct 30 2020 // A fast-moving Zeta weakened to a tropical storm as it barreled northeast on Oct. 29 after ripping through Louisiana and Mississippi where storm-weary residents were advised to stay indoors overnight while officials...
Oct 30 2020 // Property/casualty insurance companies in Louisiana, including those that write private and/or excess flood coverage, as well as surplus lines insurers, have been directed to report claims data arising from Hurricane Delta...
Oct 29 2020 // Gov. John Bel Edwards has vetoed the centerpiece bill of Louisiana’s just-ended special session, a measure seeking to give lawmakers more authority in a governor’s emergency decisions, including the ability to...