All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 13 2019 // Veterans applying for insurance licenses with the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) are now eligible for reimbursement of the required exam fees.The Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs recently approved the...
Mar 13 2019 // Two Louisiana homeowners have sued President Donald Trump’s administration for policy change delays that have kept thousands of victims of a massive 2016 flood from receiving federal aid.Jeffry and Amanda Meyer, who...
Mar 4 2019 // It’s a Bourbon Street battle of jumbo beers, just before Mardi Gras’ climactic weekend: Huge Ass Beers vs. Giant Ass Beer.The creator of Huge Ass Beers is suing another string of bars and clubs on Bourbon...
Mar 4 2019 // Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort has completed another round of policy depopulation — its 12th, the state insurance department said.Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens) offers...
Mar 1 2019 // Officials with a company that owns an unstable phosphogypsum pile and a lake of acidic water atop it say they’re encouraged by recent efforts to halt a potential environmental disaster in a Louisiana...
Feb 28 2019 // School officials say a subcontractor fell at a new school construction site in Louisiana and later died. News outlets report that the subcontractor fell around 14 feet while working at the Bullion Primary School...
Feb 26 2019 // FedNat Holding Co. has agreed to purchase substantially all of 1347 Property Insurance Holdings homeowners’ insurance operations, consisting of Maison Insurance Co., Maison Managers and ClaimCor in a 50/50 cash and...
Feb 22 2019 // Authorities are telling residents in one part of Louisiana to check sheds, patios and self-storage units to see whether anything’s missing, even a kitchen sink. They’re also telling self-storage business owners...
Feb 20 2019 // The month-long partial federal government shutdown likely further delayed aid grants to homeowners still trying to recover from the 2016 flooding, Louisiana’s top disaster recovery official said.As many as 6,000...
Feb 20 2019 // Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort has completed another round of policy depopulation — its 12th, the state insurance department announced.Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens) offers...
Feb 18 2019 // An insurance business owner and former official for a Louisiana port has been arrested for stealing nearly $1 million from his clients, authorities said.Kristian Gaudet, 45, of Cut Off, Louisiana, was charged with two...
Feb 18 2019 // Beginning in April, Louisiana customers of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. will see a decrease in their auto insurance rates, the insurance department announced.The department reported that Insurance...
Feb 18 2019 // AmWINS, The Flood AgencySpecialty insurance broker AmWINS Group has agreed to acquire The Flood Insurance Agency, a Florida-based managing general agency that specializes in private market flood insurance. The Flood...
Feb 14 2019 // The state of Mississippi on Monday sued the federal government, claiming a dam complex in Louisiana that keeps the Mississippi River from changing course is harming state land.The suit seeks at least $25 million in damages...
Feb 8 2019 // Beginning in April, Louisiana customers of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. will see a decrease in their auto insurance rates, the insurance department announced.It will be the third rated decrease filed by the...
Feb 7 2019 // Detectives with the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit – Lafayette Field Office on Jan. 31 arrested four Crowley residents in relation to a vehicle crash that authorities say was staged in an...
Feb 6 2019 // Wisconsin’s new insurance commissioner, Mark Afable, has made three additional appointments to the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance’s (OCI) leadership teamNathan Houdek has been tapped to serve as deputy...
Feb 5 2019 // An insurance business owner and former official for a Louisiana port has been arrested for stealing nearly $1 million from his clients, authorities said.Kristian Gaudet, 45, of Cut Off, was charged with two counts of...
Jan 31 2019 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, La., says it will publicly identify all of its clergy credibly accused of child abuse.Bishop Michael Gerard Duca says on the diocese website that releasing the list of names on...
Jan 30 2019 // Global insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services firm ,Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., has acquired Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based The Chapman Group Inc.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded...