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Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Says Department on Alert for Gustav
Aug 29 2008 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon held a press on Thursday, Aug. 28 to discuss the preparations made by the Department of Insurance (DOI) in the event the state is impacted by Gustav as a major hurricane. The...
Louisiana Keeping Eye on Gustav; New Orleans Mulls Evacuation
Aug 28 2008 // Three years after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Louisiana coast, New Orleans residents Wednesday again faced the prospect of an evacuation as Tropical Storm Gustav loomed. Not since Katrina and Hurricane Rita, which...
AP: New Orleans Repeating Deadly Levee Mistakes
Aug 25 2008 // Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in New Orleans, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten what happened after Hurricane Betsy caused catastrophic flooding four decades ago and again believe the...
Louisiana High Court Keeps Katrina Decision
Aug 21 2008 // The Louisiana Supreme Court refused July 8 to reconsider its recent ruling that an insurance company isn’t liable for water damage from the failure of levees in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. The court ruled in...
Cleaning Up After Hurricane Katrina
Aug 21 2008 // In both Mississippi and Louisiana, the principal argument in support of the alleged ambiguity was that the flood waters during Hurricane Katrina were pushed ashore by wind, a covered peril, and the flood exclusion did not...
ASI Lloyds Expands Property Coverage Offerings in Louisiana
Aug 19 2008 // ASI Lloyds (ASI), a subsidiary of Florida-based American Strategic Insurance Corp. and an admitted Louisiana insurer, has launched an investor, rental and seasonal dwelling policy for Louisiana properties in addition to...
Insurers Protest Private Lawyers in Former Louisiana AG’s Katrina Case
Aug 18 2008 // A judge in Louisiana has asked a state official to review the validity of private attorneys’ contracts to represent Louisiana’s attorney general in a case over the state’s Road Home hurricane recovery...
Louisiana Ex-Cop, Volunteer Firefighter Pleads Guilty in Arson Case
Aug 15 2008 // A former Amite, La., police officer, who also served as a volunteer firefighter in Roseland, has pleaded guilty to 13 counts of simple arson. District Judge Elizabeth Wolfe sentenced 23-year-old Lee Allen Widas to five...
Louisiana Med Mal Insurer Funds 4 Med School Scholarships in 2008
Aug 15 2008 // Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company (LAMMICO), which provides medical liability insurance for health care practitioners in Louisiana, announced it has funded scholarships for four students at medical schools in that...
Whittington Completes Sale of Americas Insurance to ISG Acquisition
Aug 11 2008 // The Singapore-based Whittington Group announced that it has completed the sale of Americas Insurance Company, its non-core US insurer in run-off, to ISG Acquisition II LLC, the specialist acquisition arm of Independent...
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Carrier Boosts Q2 Earnings
Aug 8 2008 // Louisiana-based Amerisafe Inc., which provides workers’ compensation insurance for small to mid-sized companies in hazardous industries, recorded a 13 percent increase in second-quarter profit despite a slight...
Louisiana Citizens Rate Increase Delayed
Aug 6 2008 // Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. policyholders won’t see planned rate increases for at least two months because the agency can’t get a quorum on its board to approve the measure. Premiums had been...
Damage From Tropical Storm Edouard Minimal
Aug 6 2008 // Tropical Storm Edouard hit the Texas Gulf coast east of Galveston Aug. 5 with strong winds and heavy rain, but did little more than soak the travelers who came to relax on the tourist town’s beaches. The National...
Tropical Storm Edouard Heads for Texas/Louisiana Coast
Aug 4 2008 // A swiftly developing Tropical Storm Edouard is expected to make landfall very near the upper Texas coast or the coast of southwestern Louisiana by Tuesday, Aug. 5, the National Hurricane Center reported. As of Monday...
Storm Edouard Shuts Gulf Coast Oil Port, Disrupts Shipping
Aug 4 2008 // Tropical Storm Edouard forced shut a huge U.S. offshore oil port, a refinery, some oil production and disrupted shipping as the storm raced toward the Texas-Louisiana coast Monday. Energy companies evacuated staff from...
It Figures
Aug 4 2008 // $300,000 Capitol County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, disciplined by Texas regulators for its handling of claims after Hurricane Rita, could face up to $300,000 in fines after the release of an audit by the Texas...
Former Louisiana AG’s Katrina Lawsuit Stays in Federal Court
Aug 4 2008 // Former Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti’s lawsuit contending major insurance companies manipulated prices on hurricane damage claims will remain in federal court, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Community Financial Insurance Adds Credo as Senior VP
Jul 31 2008 // Community Financial Insurance Center, Monroe, La., hired Jeanette F. Credo as senior vice president for its new Financial Institutions Division for the states of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. Credo will establish and...
Louisiana Man Found Guilty on 8 Counts of Insurance Fraud
Jul 30 2008 // Arthur Copes of Baton Rouge has been found guilty on eight counts of insurance fraud, according to the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office. Judge Anthony Marabella rendered the verdict following testimony from former...
Louisiana Latest State to Reject REAL ID
Jul 29 2008 // Louisiana is the latest state to reject a federal identification card program intended as an anti-terror measure that is under criticism because of high costs and possible privacy risks. At least 10 states have passed laws...
