Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Bars Often Roll Dice on Liquor Liability Coverage
Apr 1 2013 // Louisiana beer tavern owners Chuck Brechtel and Eddie Dyer are the first to admit that plenty can go wrong when your main line of work is serving alcohol to thirsty crowds all night. For that reason, they say they err...
Louisiana Couple Arrested for Possessing $165K in Stolen Vehicles
Mar 29 2013 // Louisiana State Police announced that insurance fraud detectives have arrested a Lake Charles couple for charges relating to possession of stolen vehicles worth an estimated $165,000. In October 2011, detectives received...
Louisiana Sinkhole Expands Again
Mar 28 2013 // About 25 trees fell into the Assumption Parish, La., sinkhole and officials say a new crack formed Monday night in a well pad south of the lake-like slurry hole. The Advocate reports experts working for the state Office of...
Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish Gets $10M to Elevate Homes
Mar 26 2013 // St. Bernard Parish officials say the suburban New Orleans, La., community has $10 million in federal grants available to help residents elevate their houses and ease the danger from flooding. The Times-Picayune reports the...
Louisiana Citizens Borrowing Plan Stalls in Bond Commission
Mar 25 2013 // State officials stalled a decision on whether Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort should borrow $100 million to help close an anticipated budget gap. The Bond Commission, which includes lawmakers and...
The Never Ending Snoball Fight
Mar 25 2013 // Snowfall in Southern Louisiana is a rarity, but one doozy of a snowball fight has been ongoing since at least 2006 and has resulted in four separate lawsuits, now consolidated in the United States District Court for the...
Louisiana Commissioner Opposes $100M Citizens Insurance Borrowing Plan
Mar 21 2013 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said it’s premature for the state property insurer of last resort to borrow $100 million to help close a budget gap, according to a letter released March...
Louisiana Civilian Labor Force Largest Since November 2005
Mar 20 2013 // Louisiana’s civilian labor force grew in January to the largest it’s been since 2005, according to seasonally adjusted figures released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Louisiana Workforce...
Louisiana Citizens Insurance Board Approves Borrowing $100M
Mar 18 2013 // Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s board has voted to borrow $100 million through bonds to cover a $70 million shortfall – in direct defiance of the wishes Gov. Bobby Jindal’s...
Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. CEO Retiring
Mar 14 2013 // Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. CEO Richard Robertson says he plans to retire June 1. Robertson told The Advocate he will return to Michigan. He had been general manager of Michigan Basic Property Insurance...
Louisiana Governor: Texas Brine Agrees to Sinkhole Buyouts
Mar 14 2013 // Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says a Texas company blamed for the sinkhole that formed after the collapse of an underground salt cavern has agreed to provide settlement offers, which include buyouts, to the residents of the...
Copper Thieves Hit Substations in Louisiana’s Union Parish
Mar 13 2013 // Union Parish, La., sheriff’s deputies and Marion police are investigating the theft of a large amount of copper wiring from a substation owned by Claiborne Electric Co. Deputies say a large amount of copper was...
People – South Central
Mar 11 2013 // Dallas-based managing general agency, Arcana Insurance Services, named Gary Kirkindoll as chief business development officer. Kirkindoll will oversee development of the company’s customer base in the credit union...
Activist Brockovich to Speak with Residents Near Louisiana Sinkhole
Mar 7 2013 // Environmental activist Erin Brockovich and a California attorney hired by a group of Assumption Parish, La., residents are coming to Pierre Part to discuss the legal options for residents evacuated from the Bayou Corne...
Audit Outlines Trouble with Louisiana’s $75M ‘Katrina Cottages’ Program
Mar 6 2013 // Louisiana’s $75 million “Katrina cottages” program took years longer than expected to build homes for hurricane-displaced residents and paid significantly more per house than similar nonprofit programs,...
Toffoli, Ruiz and Jones Join Access Home Insurance Co.
Mar 5 2013 // Baton Rouge, La.-based Access Home Insurance Co. (Access Home) announced that Michael Toffoli, Rusty Ruiz and Kerri Jones have joined the company as executive vice president, Louisiana marketing representative and South...
Louisiana Commissioner Praises Court Ruling on Emergency Rule
Feb 28 2013 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced he is pleased that the 19th Judicial District Court has upheld an emergency rule put in place during Hurricane Isaac and his authority to do so during catastrophic...
Louisiana Workers’ Comp Corp. Policyholder Dividend Largest-Ever
Feb 27 2013 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) has declared a 2012 dividend of $48.7 million, the company’s largest dividend ever. It will be paid to qualifying policyholders in March and April, bringing...
Opening Arguments in BP Oil Spill Trial Seek to Assess Blame
Feb 26 2013 // A long-awaited trial over the biggest U.S. offshore oil spill began on Monday, with governments, businesses and individuals blaming BP Plc mostly for the 2010 disaster that killed 11 rig workers and spilled 4 million...
Ratings Recap: Nat’l. Interstate, Best Meridian, SC Farm, Fireman’s Fund La.
Feb 25 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the issuer credit rating (ICR) of “bbb+” of National Interstate Corporation (NATL), as well as the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and ICRs of...
