All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 4 2015 // The Main Street America Group announced it has received regulatory approval from the Louisiana Department of Insurance to write commercial surety and fidelity bonds in the state. The business will be underwritten through...
Aug 3 2015 // A nonprofit cooperative formed to provide health insurance in Louisiana is on the way to shutting down.Louisiana Health Cooperative said it will honor all in-force policies for its approximately 17,000 policyholders. It...
Aug 3 2015 // Effective Oct. 1, Louisiana will withdraw from the Nonadmitted Insurance Multi-state Agreement (NIMA) and the NIMA-sponsored surplus lines clearinghouse, state insurance regulators announced.The state’s withdrawal...
Jul 30 2015 // LUBA Workers’ Comp, based in Baton Rouge, La., is now offering workers’ compensation insurance coverage to businesses in Texas.LUBA Workers’ Comp covers businesses in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi...
Jul 29 2015 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has extended its filing deadline for National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders in Louisiana impacted by recent flooding, the insurance department announced.The...
Jul 27 2015 // A nonprofit cooperative formed to provide health insurance in Louisiana is on the way to shutting down.Louisiana Health Cooperative said it will honor all in-force policies for the approximately 17,000 individuals that...
Jul 24 2015 // A 45-year-old Baker, La., man has been sentenced to 14 1/2 years in state prison for his sixth DWI conviction since 2000.Prosecutors say Michael Scott Oneill’s blood-alcohol level was 0.152 percent when he was...
Jul 24 2015 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared a natural disaster involving 35 Louisiana parishes and eight counties in three neighboring states because of rain, floods, high winds and hail from April 27 through June...
Jul 23 2015 // A new report finds speeding was a factor in at least 27 percent of Louisiana traffic fatalities in 2013.The state had 703 traffic fatalities two years ago and 193 stemmed in part from speeding, a National Highway Traffic...
Jul 22 2015 // Did you know that that an insurer can be liable for bad faith failure to settle even if it never receives a firm settlement offer? The Louisiana Supreme Court recently ruled that it can and also that an insurer can be...
Jul 21 2015 // Public agencies in the New Orleans area have accepted about a quarter-billion dollars from BP for economic losses resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reports the Southeast...
Jul 20 2015 // Did you know that that an insurer can be liable for bad faith failure to settle even if it never receives a firm settlement offer? The Louisiana Supreme Court recently ruled that it can and also that an insurer can be...
Jul 16 2015 // Effective Oct. 1, Louisiana will withdraw from the Nonadmitted Insurance Multi-state Agreement (NIMA) and the NIMA-sponsored surplus lines clearinghouse, state insurance regulators announced.The state’s withdrawal...
Jul 15 2015 // Residents north of Thibodaux can expect better fire protection and lower insurance premiums with a new, 3,700-square-foot station being built along La. Highway 1. The Daily Comet reports the Chackbay Volunteer Fire...
Jul 14 2015 // A study by the LSU AgCenter finds feral hogs have caused at least $30 million in damage to crops on Louisiana farms in 2013. AgCenter economist Shaun Tanger has been gathering data for more than a year from Louisiana...
Jul 10 2015 // Local governments in Louisiana have begun accepting settlements for their share of a proposed $18.7 billion settlement between BP, Louisiana, four other states and the federal government to mitigate claims stemming from...
Jul 9 2015 // Environmental groups and a Belle River, La. community group have filed a lawsuit against the state Department of Natural Resources alleging that the departments should never have granted a permit for an injection well.FAS...
Jul 6 2015 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) requires homeowners to file a Proof of Loss form to claim damages within 60 days of a flood.On June 17 in a letter to FEMA...
Jul 6 2015 // More than 6.6 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of hurricane storm surge with a total reconstruction cost value estimated to be nearly $1.5 trillion, according to a recently released report.The...
Jul 6 2015 // The flood plain manager for the Rapides Area Planning Commission in Louisiana said people whose homes flooded may find that repairs bring them under newer and stricter building standards.Melissa Becker told The Town Talk...