Latest Louisiana Headlines
All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Allstate to Stop Paying Living Expenses for Some Louisiana Customers
Sep 25 2009 // Allstate Insurance will no longer pay emergency living expenses for about 16,000 of its coastal homeowners in Louisiana who have wind and hail coverage through another carrier. The change affects about 10 percent of...
Louisiana Agent Accused of Premium Theft, Unfair Trade Practices
Sep 25 2009 // A Scott, La., area insurance agent has been arrested, issued a cease and desist order, summary suspension of his license and fine notice for alleged misappropriation of premiums and unfair trade practices. Carmen Miller,...
Louisiana Insurance Agents Fined for Alleged Fraud
Sep 24 2009 // Two Denham Springs, La., insurance agents have been accused of committing insurance fraud, and were served with cease and desist orders, summary suspension notices and fine notices by the Louisiana Department of...
The Coverage Conundrum in Chinese Drywall Claims
Sep 21 2009 // The Latest Mass Tort Unless you live in Florida or Louisiana, or regularly read the Insurance Journal, you may only now be hearing about the latest mass tort craze: Chinese-Manufactured Drywall (often simply referred to as...
Louisiana Man Charged with Arson, Conspiracy
Sep 21 2009 // Fire investigators have arrested a Louisiana man on charges of arson with intent to defraud, conspiracy to commit arson with intent to defraud and filing a false police report. Lafayette Fire Department officials say the...
Agent Group Installs New President, President-Elect
Sep 21 2009 // J. David Daniel was inaugurated as the chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) at the recent Big “I” Leadership Conference in New Orleans, La. He will...
Louisiana Levee Rating Drop Would Trigger Flood Insurance Requirement
Sep 18 2009 // Northeast Louisiana officials are worried that federal authorities may “de-certify” the Ouachita River levee system. That could mean that virtually all Monroe property owners would be required to buy federal...
It Was No Katrina But Some in Coastal America Remember Ivan’s Terror
Sep 17 2009 // People who lived through Hurricane Ivan can’t forget the haunting images left by one of the strongest storms ever recorded: condo towers collapsed in roiling surf, splintered homes or flat slabs, fragments of...
Monroe Employer Arrested in Louisiana Workers’ Comp Crackdown
Sep 15 2009 // The Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) announced a third arrest this month as part of the the agency’s statewide crackdown on employers who are alleged to have committed workers’ compensation fraud. Agents...
Affirmative Insurance Holdings Moving Offices to Louisiana
Sep 15 2009 // Affirmative Insurance Holding Inc. has announced it is consolidating its corporate operations center from Chicago to Baton Rouge, La. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Bobby Jindal, Affirmative Insurance Holdings Inc.’s Chief...
Louisiana Citizens Board OKs Proposed Rate Hike For 2010
Sep 14 2009 // Policyholders of Louisiana’s state-backed property insurance company will see an average statewide rate increase of about 10 percent next year, under a proposal preliminarily approved by the firm’s board on...
Alleged $1.2M in Workers’ Comp Fraud Leads to Arrest in Louisiana
Sep 11 2009 // The Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) and the state’s attorney general reported the arrest of a Louisiana couple for alleged workers’ compensation premium fraud. Mauro and Keren Aguirre, owners of Escapade...
Louisiana Agent Accused of Pocketing Insurance Premiums
Sep 10 2009 // A Thibodaux, La., insurance agent and his agency have been issued a cease and desist order, summary suspension of licenses and fine notice for 12 counts of alleged misappropriation of premiums, the Louisiana Department of...
Trial Date Set for ex-Louisiana Citizens CEO Lisotta
Sep 9 2009 // A judge has rejected an attempt to have criminal charges dismissed in a case against the former chief executive of Louisiana’s insurance company of last resort. Terry Lisotta, former CEO of Louisiana Citizens...
Citizens to Pay Class Action Attorneys, Rather than Post Appeal Bond
Sep 7 2009 // Louisiana Citizens Property Corporation avoided what Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon had called a potential disaster when it negotiated an agreement to pay a group of attorneys in a class action lawsuit $6 million in...
People
Sep 7 2009 // Texas-based Specialty Insurance Managers Inc. appointed several new vice presidents. Karen Ashton was named vice president of the Arlington, Texas, branch. Bonnie Stalkfleet is now vice president of the Granbury branch....
Business Moves
Sep 7 2009 // Grain Dealers/Main Street Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co., an Indiana-domiciled regional property/casualty insurance company, will become an affiliate of Florida-based Main Street America if approved by the Indiana...
Louisiana Commissioner: Don’t Raise Taxes on Reinsurers
Sep 3 2009 // Now that the hurricane season is well underway, Louisianans remember when Katrina came ashore, late in August 2005, with a storm surge that eventually flooded New Orleans and leveled many Gulf Coast towns, costing more...
Louisiana Insurance Chief Seeks Lawsuit Protection for Citizens
Sep 2 2009 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says that he’ll support legislation to give the state’s “insurer of last resort” immunity against certain lawsuits, a proposal that could retroactively...
Louisiana Insurance Bait Car Nabs New Orleans Murder Suspect
Aug 27 2009 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon says two men wanted in connection with a murder in New Orleans were captured after stealing a bait vehicle provided by the Department of Insurance Louisiana Automobile Theft...
