All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 1 2017 // An Arkansas man who pretended to be an insurance broker and collected more than $1 million selling fake insurance policies in three states has been sentenced to more than five years in prison, the Arkansas Insurance...
Jun 1 2017 // A bill establishing a workers’ compensation closed drug formulary in Louisiana passed the House and has been referred to the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.A legislative analysis of House Bill 592...
Jun 1 2017 // Louisiana won’t join 44 other states in regulating ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft after a proposal to standardize rules and expand access to smaller cities was blocked by New Orleans lawmakers, the...
May 30 2017 // Louisiana State Police say 13 people have been arrested in connection with an insurance fraud scheme involving staged automobile crashes.A news release says the May 25 arrests followed an investigation that began with...
May 24 2017 // With hurricane season fast approaching, the Louisiana Department of Insurance is pointing out that in the last 18 months, nearly 90 percent of the state’s parishes have been included in major disaster...
May 22 2017 // Louisiana’s getting another $51 million in federal dollars to help with recovery from last year’s floods.U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy announced the latest figure Thursday. He says the U.S. Department of Housing and...
May 15 2017 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says a new emergency rule extends the time in which policyholders affected by August 2016 flooding have to comply with insurance policy provisions.Emergency Rule 33 continues...
May 15 2017 // Louisiana is holding outreach sessions to help homeowners with damage from last year’s floods to fill out a survey that is the initial step to requesting aid from the state. Six events are scheduled across Louisiana...
May 15 2017 // Hoping to prevent fatal overdoses, a House committee passed a bill to make it harder for injured Louisiana workers to access highly-addictive opioid drugs.Lawmakers voted 8-5 on May 11 to have prescribers consult a...
May 15 2017 // Workers’ compensation rates decreased statewide in Louisiana on May 1 by 9.8 percent, marking the fourth year in a row rates have dropped in that state, according to insurance regulators.In January, the Louisiana...
May 12 2017 // Louisiana already has some of the highest property insurance rates in the nation. But they could creep higher still—an estimated $1.11 billion higher over the next decade—should congressional tax-reform efforts limit...
May 11 2017 // A coastal Louisiana parish announced a $45 million settlement with BP over damages from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil spill.Plaquemines Parish juts out into the Gulf of Mexico from Louisiana’s southeastern tip. Oil...
May 10 2017 // Voters won’t be deciding whether they want to ban certain traffic cameras in Louisiana.The House transportation committee resoundingly defeated the proposal from Republican Rep. Paul Hollis, of Covington, to prohibit...
May 8 2017 // A proposal to divert $190 million of Louisiana’s disaster recovery money to a flood protection project was scrapped amid criticism that it risked stripping aid from thousands of homeowners trying to rebuild after...
May 5 2017 // Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to further extend the filing deadline for Louisiana policyholders impacted by the August flood.FEMA’s National Flood...
May 5 2017 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) honored two agents from South Central states with awards at the annual Big “I” Legislative Conference.Lee Schilling...
May 4 2017 // House Republican lawmakers are proposing to divert $190 million of Louisiana’s congressional disaster-recovery money to a flood-protection project, a move that would shrink aid earmarked for homeowners struggling to...
May 2 2017 // Baton Rouge, La.-based Retailers Casualty Insurance Co., a workers’ comp insurer managed by Summit, has declared a $1.7 million policyholder dividend for the 2015 policy year. Retailers Casualty policies are...
May 1 2017 // Louisiana civil engineers have graded the state’s roads and bridges, and they claimed the results were “embarrassing.”The Advocate reports that roads were given a D grade and bridges a D-plus in the...
May 1 2017 // Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on April 19 signed an emergency proclamation declaring the Louisiana Coast is in a state of crisis and emergency.The emergency proclamation sent to President Donald Trump and members of...