All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 30 2015 // Nothing is more exciting than reading the latest updates on insurance law, unless, of course, you can get updates on corporate law at the same time.Fortunately, there are two recent Louisiana cases where the outcome of...
Mar 26 2015 // Voters in Gonzales, La., will decide on March 28 whether to renew a 10-year, 3.27-mill property tax that was first passed in 1986 to fund the city’s fire department.With two fire stations and an ambulance service...
Mar 23 2015 // An insurance empire that included two insurance carriers, two offshore reinsurers, several buildings and other insurers’ investments was built by a private equity firm in part on questionable assets and is now being...
Mar 23 2015 // Nothing is more exciting than reading the latest updates on insurance law, unless, of course, you can get updates on corporate law at the same time.Fortunately, there are two recent Louisiana cases where the outcome of...
Mar 23 2015 // A new private contractor is being hired to oversee claims processing and loss prevention services for Louisiana’s self-insurance program.The Office of Risk Management announced that Sedgwick Claims Management...
Mar 23 2015 // Waco, Texas-based Insurors Indemnity Cos. named Dave Talbert as president and chief executive officer.Talbert joined Insurors Indemnity in February 2014 with more than 25 years of industry experience, having previously...
Mar 20 2015 // A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of A (Excellent) and the issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of DeRidder, La.-based AMERISAFE Inc. and its property/casualty subsidiaries: American Interstate...
Mar 17 2015 // Louisiana is vulnerable to extreme weather and natural catastrophes in ways only a few other states experience. By all indications, that exposure will only grow worse, as a combination of sea rise, erosion and subsidence...
Mar 16 2015 // The chief executive officer of state-backed Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. abruptly resigned following a closed session of the insurer’s board of directors to discuss personnel matters.The Advocate...
Mar 16 2015 // A new private contractor is being hired to oversee claims processing and loss prevention services for Louisiana’s self-insurance program.The Office of Risk Management announced that Sedgwick Claims Management...
Mar 11 2015 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will study the 81-year-old floodwall that protects Monroe from the Ouachita River, to try to determine why the structure is cracking.Tensas Basin Levee District personnel first...
Mar 9 2015 // Louisiana-based workers’ compensation insurer, LCTA Workers’ Comp (LCTA), has added John D’Angelo to its board of trustees. John D’Angelo D’Angelo founded Investar Bank in Baton Rouge, La., in...
Mar 8 2015 // BP has abruptly switched legal strategies—again—in the multi-billion-dollar liability fight stemming from the April 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The company dropped a campaign to oust a settlement administrator it...
Mar 5 2015 // A state office that provides insurance plans for Louisiana’s state employees says personal information of some of its members was obtained by hackers who breached the online security of Anthem Inc. The Office of...
Mar 5 2015 // The Property Insurance Association of Louisiana says Lake Charles will maintain its Class 2 fire protection rating for the next few years. By keeping the Class 2 rating, which the city has maintained since the 1980s,...
Mar 3 2015 // ExxonMobil has paid more than $4.6 million to nearly 2,900 motorists impacted by the company’s production of more than 5 million gallons of tainted fuel distributed in the Baton Rouge area in March...
Mar 2 2015 // The battle over Jefferson Parish’s defunct red-light camera program is headed back to district court, after appellate judges reversed decisions throwing out ticketed drivers’ lawsuits against the parish and...
Mar 2 2015 // Tampa, Florida-based 1347 Property Insurance Holdings Inc., which sells homeowners insurance in Louisiana and has plans to expand to other coastal states, announced it has bought out the management services contract with a...
Feb 27 2015 // An East Baton Rouge Parish insurance agency owner recently was served by Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Division investigators with a summary suspension and a cease and desist order for alleged misappropriation of...
Feb 23 2015 // Property/casualty insurance media company, Wells Media Group, announced four C-suite and managerial staff promotions.Julie Tinney now serves as chief marketing officer, Josh Carlson has been promoted to chief technology...