Latest Louisiana Headlines
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La. Court Bars Pollution Exclusion to Deny Coverage in Bodily Injury Case
May 16 2007 // A Louisiana state judge has ruled that an insurance company cannot use the so-called “absolute pollution exclusion” to deny its corporate policyholder coverage for claims alleging that bodily injury was caused...
La. House Panel: Abolish Insurance Rating Commission
May 16 2007 // Louisiana should do away with the state commission of political appointees that can block insurance rate increases, the only one left in the country, a state House of Representatives committee decided recently. The House...
La. Agent Accused of Pocketing Premiums
May 11 2007 // An Alexandria, La., insurance agent has been arrested and issued a cease and desist order and summary suspension of his licenses for allegedly misappropriating premium money from policyholders and failing to remit premiums...
La. Commissioner: State Farm to Reopen Katrina and Rita ‘Slab’ Claims
May 11 2007 // Lousiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that State Farm has agreed to reevaluate all of the claims it denied from Louisiana policyholders whose homes or businesses were reduced to their foundations due to...
La. Senate Approves Privatization of Citizens Insurance
May 11 2007 // Louisiana should privatize its state-run “insurer of last resort,” the fastest-growing property insurance company since hurricanes Katrina and Rita sent homeowners and commercial policies upward, the state...
La. House Panel OKs Governor’s Property Insurance Package
May 11 2007 // Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco won a House committee’s approval for her plan to ease Louisiana’s property insurance crisis by offering $100 million in financial incentives to insurance companies. Blanco’s...
Ark-La-Tex Underwriters Hires Weego in Commercial Lines Division
May 9 2007 // Louisiana-based wholesaler/managing general agency Ark-La-Tex Underwriters Inc. announced that Chris Weego has joined the firm as a commercial underwriter/marketer. Weego is experienced and has good knowledge of the...
La. Statewide Building Code on Chopping Block at Capitol
May 8 2007 // A new statewide building code in Louisiana was one of the most tangible responses by lawmakers to hurricanes Katrina and Rita. But it was done quickly, a knee-jerk reaction that many lawmakers say didn’t involve...
Insurance industry in Louisiana’s legislative ‘crosshairs’
May 7 2007 // This session will be tough, next one even worse, lobbyist says Despite its focus on fiscal matters, Louisiana’s 2007 legislative session, which began April 30, is certain to have plenty of impact on the insurance...
Insurance industry in Louisiana’s legislative ‘crosshairs’
May 7 2007 // Despite its focus on fiscal matters, Louisiana’s 2007 legislative session, which began April 30, is certain to have plenty of impact on the insurance industry, according to one industry lobbyist. And it’s not...
La. Measures Would Shrink Citizens Insurance, Change Building Codes
May 3 2007 // While Louisiana struggles to retain insurance markets and affordable coverage, the state’s lawmakers are targeting problems with the state’s insurer of last resort and building codes. A Louisiana State Senate...
FBI: Former La. Police Union Head Lied About Insurance Scam
May 3 2007 // A former police union president in Monroe, La., is accused of lying to federal investigators about a former officer’s alleged insurance scam. Federal agents arrested Paul Brown, 41, a 16-year department veteran who...
La. State Police Charge Bondsman with Theft and Insurance Fraud
May 2 2007 // The Louisiana State Police reported that its Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft Unit on April 30, 2007, arrested a bail bondsman in the Rapides Parish area on theft and insurance fraud charges. Wayne Thomas, 36, McKeithen...
Burns & Wilcox Adds Woods as Personal Lines Underwriter in LA
May 2 2007 // Burns & Wilcox announces that Aaron Woods has joined the company’s Los Angeles office, which is located in Woodland Hills, Calif., as a personal lines underwriter/broker. Previously, Woods spent three years as a...
La. Gov. Pitches $100M Insurance Plan
May 1 2007 // With Louisiana’s hurricane recovery stymied in part by skyrocketing property insurance rates, Gov. Kathleen Blanco has a plan to ease the problem: Offer insurance companies $100 million in incentives. But in an...
Proposal Would Give La. AG Muscle in Insurance Disputes
Apr 30 2007 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood didn’t wait long to take on the insurance industry for denying the claims of thousands of policyholders after Hurricane Katrina. Less than a month after the Aug. 29, 2005, storm...
Big ‘I’ Honors N.Y’s Emek and Louisiana Affiliate
Apr 30 2007 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) honored an agent leader and one of its state associations for their legislative accomplishments in 2006 at the Big “I”...
La. Lawmaker Wants AG’s Opinion on Gov.’s Insurance Incentive Plan
Apr 27 2007 // A lawmaker from Acadiana has asked Louisiana’s attorney general to determine the constitutionality of Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s plan to grant up to $100 million in state money to private insurance...
Coming La. Legislative Session to Target Insurance, Lobbyist Says
Apr 27 2007 // Despite its focus on fiscal matters, Louisiana’s 2007 legislative session, which begins April 30, is certain to have plenty of impact on the insurance industry, according to one industry lobbyist. And it’s not...
La. Hurricane Safe Rooms Fitted with Pump Automation Systems
Apr 26 2007 // Engineers in Jefferson Parish, La., said recent tests show flood pumps can be turned on automatically by workers holed up in nearby safe rooms during major hurricanes. When a major hurricane threatens the parish, pump...
