All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 18 2019 // Covington, Louisiana-based Fidelis Group Holdings LLC (FGH), a provider of marine insurance coverage and services, has created a new senior management structure for the company and its subsidiaries, Continental...
Dec 18 2019 // A swarm of tornadoes and storms that left a trail of destruction across the Southeast killed four people, injured a dozen more and left victims to bundle up against the cold as they picked up pieces of their homes...
Dec 17 2019 // Three Louisiana parish sheriff’s offices were targeted by hackers over the weekend in a suspected cyberattack, officials confirmed. The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office received a call from the Sheriff’s...
Dec 16 2019 // Agriculture producers in some Louisiana parishes now may be eligible for assistance from the federal government due to losses from Hurricane Barry, the state’s agriculture commissioner reported.Louisiana Agriculture...
Dec 16 2019 // “Now that we’ve had this incident, does that put a target on our back, kind of, for more bad guys to hit our system?”— Louisiana state Sen. Sharon Hewitt, a Republican from Slidell, asked regarding...
Dec 12 2019 // Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Co., based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has hired Brandon Lege as director of Loss Prevention and John Moore as a production underwriter.Lege was formerly the safety and training manager for...
Dec 9 2019 // Metairie, LA, December 9, 2019 – Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (‘LCPIC’), has released a new request for proposals for vendors to service insurance claims after a catastrophe, such as in...
Dec 4 2019 // The 2019 edition of the R Street Institute’s annual Insurance Regulation Report Card is out and, for the second year in a row, Louisiana has the ignominious distinction of finishing dead last. By our lights, the...
Dec 4 2019 // FedNat Holding Company (FNHC), an insurance holding company, has completed its acquisition of the homeowners insurance operations of 1347 Property Insurance Holdings, Inc. (PIH), consisting of Maison Insurance Co., Maison...
Dec 3 2019 // The cyberattack on Louisiana’s state government computer servers disrupted agency operations and made going to the Office of Motor Vehicles even more headache-inducing than usual. But it was nowhere near the...
Dec 2 2019 // Metairie, LA, December 2, 2019 – Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (‘LCPIC’), has released a new request for proposals for vendors to service insurance claims after a catastrophe, such as in...
Nov 20 2019 // Many of Louisiana’s state government websites and email systems were shut down because of what the governor’s office is describing as an attempted ransomware attack.The problem Monday disrupted business...
Nov 8 2019 // A filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) that would reduce workers’ compensation insurance rates in Louisiana by 8.4% next year has been approved by Louisiana Insurance Commissioner...
Nov 6 2019 // Three months after medical marijuana became available in Louisiana, doctors and clinics say some patients are finding the cost for therapeutic cannabis too high for treatment, pricing them out of a medication they waited...
Nov 5 2019 // Louisiana-based Excalibur Insurance Co. is now officially named Lighthouse Excalibur Insurance Co., following its acquisition by Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp.The name change was unveiled on Nov. 1. In May, Lighthouse...
Nov 4 2019 // No injuries are being reported after an explosion shook a Dow chemical plant in Louisiana.Dow Louisiana Operations said in a Facebook post that a “vessel” had ruptured at its facility near Plaquemine on Sunday...
Oct 30 2019 // The Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal says it’s been selected as a federal Fire Prevention and Safety Grant award recipient. The award, totaling $55,000, will allow the state fire marshal to boost its smoke...
Oct 29 2019 // Two men have been charged with stealing two new tractors from a Many, La., business. The estimated value of both tractors is $80,000.Stephan Morton, (38) of Shreveport, La., and Michael Bayonne (41) of Alexandria, La., are...
Oct 29 2019 // Lafayette, Louisiana-based Gulf States Holdings Inc. has acquired Coastal American Holdings Inc. and its subsidiary Coastal American Insurance Co. Coastal American’s home office is located in Gulfport, Miss.Terms of...
Oct 28 2019 // Five defendants have been indicted in Louisiana for an alleged insurance fraud involving a staged vehicular accident scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says.Damian K. Labeaud and Lucinda Thomas of New Orleans, and...