All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 20 2017 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance has issued a reminder that producer and adjuster license renewals are changing in 2018.Beginning in January, producers will file a single license renewal, which will renew all eligible...
Nov 17 2017 // LUBA Workers’ Comp, a regional casualty insurance company, was named Company of the Year in the 100 employees or less category of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry’s 2017 Free Enterprise...
Nov 16 2017 // The federal government has designated several Louisiana parishes disaster areas due to damages caused by flooding from Hurricane Harvey.Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain says the U.S. Department of...
Nov 14 2017 // New data from the Louisiana Department of Health and the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy show there are fewer opioids being prescribed since Medicaid expansion began in July 2016, the Louisiana governor’s office...
Nov 9 2017 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance has issued a reminder that producer and adjuster license renewals are changing in 2018.Beginning in 2018, producers will file a single license renewal, which will renew all eligible...
Nov 9 2017 // Two workers were injured when a fire broke out on an oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday, according to a Coast Guard spokeswoman.Coast Guard Petty Officer Lexie Preston said 46 workers were...
Nov 7 2017 // The fourteenth annual LWCC Kids’ Chance invitational golf tournament raised over $35,000 for the Louisiana Bar Foundation (LBF) Kids’ Chance Scholarship Program.The Kids’ Chance Scholarship Program...
Nov 6 2017 // A spokeswoman for Louisiana State University says three workers were injured when an “electrical issue” sparked a fire that prompted the evacuation of the university’s law school. LSU spokeswoman Alison...
Nov 6 2017 // Dallas-based independent insurance brokerage RHSB has named Julia Miller Spracklen J.D. as chief operating officer and Courtney Woodruff as senior vice president in its Commercial Lines Division. Additionally, John Losurdo...
Nov 6 2017 // State and federal government entities that have been partnering since 2013 on a Louisiana task force targeting employers who misclassify workers plan to increase their efforts next year, according to the Louisiana...
Nov 2 2017 // Louisiana’s attorney general is trying to take control of a lawsuit filed by Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration accusing pharmaceutical companies of worsening opioid abuse in the state.The Advocate reports...
Oct 31 2017 // The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to revive a Louisiana flood protection board’s lawsuit seeking to make oil, gas and pipeline companies pay for decades of damage to coastal wetlands.The suit drew fierce opposition...
Oct 31 2017 // Investor-funded litigation is not new but it is expanding its reach in commercial auto cases, according to experts in the field.Panelists at the 2017 Risk Management Summit in Las Vegas, Nev., addressed the growing trend...
Oct 30 2017 // Two women in East Baton Rouge Parish have been served cease and desist orders by the Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Division investigators for allegedly fraudulently altering the vital information and beneficiary...
Oct 30 2017 // Louisiana’s pickup truck drivers buckle up less regularly than motorists in cars, SUVs and vans. That’s the finding of a new seatbelt use study from the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission.The group says 87...
Oct 27 2017 // Several state and federal government entities partnering on a Louisiana task force to target employers who misclassify workers plan increased activity in 2018, according to the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC).The...
Oct 26 2017 // A Louisiana man says a sheriff’s office withdrew a job offer after finding out he has HIV, according to a federal lawsuit filed Oct. 24.“It’s the equivalent of not hiring somebody because they had cancer...
Oct 25 2017 // Louisiana workers’ compensation insurer, LWCC, has hired Kappie Mumphrey as its chief information officer (CIO).Mumphrey is an IT leader with over 25 years’ experience in management, including having served as...
Oct 23 2017 // Louisiana health officials say a second bacterium apparently contributed to the mass food poisoning that may have killed one person and apparently sickened more than 100 people who ate at a fundraiser.Assistant State...
Oct 20 2017 // Brown & Brown of Louisiana LLC, a subsidiary of Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of Lapeyre, Staples & Robichaux, the companies announced.Lapeyre, Staples and...