Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Louisiana’s Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Adds 3 to Management Team
Dec 30 2010 // Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Co., a Louisiana-based workers’ compensation insurer, has added the following individuals to its management team: Dave Lorino has been named vice president of Claims for Stonetrust....
Insurers’ Recent Success a Milestone in a Year of Chinese Drywall Litigation
Dec 23 2010 // A federal judge in Louisiana recently let 10 insurance companies being sued by Louisiana homeowners over property damage resulting from the installation of defective drywall from China off the hook for coverage from those...
Louisiana Citizens Receives Rating Upgrade
Dec 22 2010 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens) Assessment Revenue Bonds to Baa1 from Baa2. The...
Humana Names Bagby as Louisiana Commercial Market President
Dec 21 2010 // Humana Inc. named Rhonda Bagby president of its Louisiana commercial operations. As Humana’s senior commercial executive for Louisiana, based in New Orleans, Bagby is responsible for the state’s overall...
Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish Demolishing Storm Damaged Homes
Dec 17 2010 // Terrebonne Parish is planning to demolish about 450 hurricane-damaged homes, mostly in low-lying bayou communities. Parish officials said the structures will be torn down this spring because they are in such dilapidated...
Summary and Status of Gulf Oil Disaster Litigation
Dec 16 2010 // The U.S. Department of Justice has joined the hundreds of lawsuits that have been filed as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the largest in U.S. history. The following is a summary of the legal cases stemming from...
AAU Expands Personal Lines Division in Louisiana
Dec 15 2010 // Allied American Underwriters (AAU), a national program manager and subsidiary of USG Holding/USG Insurance Services, introduced Richard Jenkins as director of Personal Lines. AAU Personal Lines will be based in Mandeville,...
Louisiana Inmate Charged with Insurance Fraud, Felony Theft
Dec 10 2010 // A man already convicted for a previous criminal offense in Louisiana has additionally been charged with insurance fraud and felony theft. Louisiana State Police detectives with the Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit say...
Report: Louisiana Is Less Healthy than Previously Thought
Dec 9 2010 // A report from the United Health Foundation finds Louisiana’s national health rankings dropped to 49th in the last year. The ranking puts Louisiana second to only Mississippi in having the worst health outcomes of any...
Bell Named Louisiana’s Deputy Commissioner of Minority Affairs
Dec 8 2010 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that Patrick W. Bell was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Minority Affairs at the Louisiana Department of Insurance effective Nov.1, 2010. Bell replaces former Deputy...
Katrina-Related Case Loses Class Action Status in Louisiana
Dec 7 2010 // The Louisiana Supreme Court recently decertified as a class a lawsuit stemming from Hurricane Katrina that a lower court had previously found met the requirements for class action status. The plaintiffs in the suit are...
People
Dec 5 2010 // Frost Insurance in Austin, Texas promoted Sheri Smyth to vice president of personal lines. Smyth, a 23-year insurance industry veteran, manages the personal lines department’s growth and retention efforts, and...
Louisiana Citizens Sheds Homeowners Policies
Dec 5 2010 // Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens) has held a fourth depopulation offering in which 13,500 policies have been assumed by the private insurance market, according to state Insurance Commissioner Jim...
State Property Insurance Plans Face Increased Exposure
Dec 5 2010 // Florida and Louisiana have reduced the number of policyholders covered by their state-run property insurers of last resort since 2008 but non-coastal property owners remain vulnerable to paying for these same...
Louisiana: 63% of Citizens Rebate Still Unclaimed for 2005, 2006
Dec 2 2010 // Nearly $355 million in rebates from Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort has not been claimed and state’s top insurance regulator wants people to know about it. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is...
Insurer Group Says Louisiana Property Market Shows Signs of Strength
Dec 1 2010 // The number of Louisiana property insurance consumers who benefit from the lower rates offered by private insurers is growing as the state’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s (Citizens) depopulation program...
2 Louisiana Insurance Producers and Employee Served with Fine Notices
Nov 24 2010 // Two Slidell, La., producers were served with fine notices by Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Section Investigators on Nov. 19 for allegedly allowing and compensating an unlicensed employee to act as an insurance...
Louisiana Citizens Sheds Homeowners Policies
Nov 23 2010 // Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens) has held a fourth depopulation offering in which 13,500 policies have been assumed into the private insurance market, state Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon...
Louisiana DWI Simulator Adds Texting while Driving
Nov 16 2010 // She took off the virtual reality headset, got out of the car and looked at her printed-out ticket for running a red light and killing a pedestrian while sending a cell phone text message. “I got a ticket for...
Louisiana Still Owes Most of Judgement in 1983 Flood
Nov 16 2010 // Bob McBride Jr. was 18 when he pushed a flat-bottomed boat holding his family and neighbors through chest-high water to safety in Tangipahoa Parish. Nearly 30 years later, he and hundreds of others still are waiting for...
