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Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association Tabs Verisk for Streamline Claims Handling
Aug 4 2022 // The Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA) announced it is is streamlining its handling of claims for policyholders of insolvent insurers with advanced property estimating technology from Verisk. LIGA is using...
Louisiana Completes Major Coastal Restoration Project
Aug 3 2022 // Louisiana has completed one of its biggest coastal restoration projects yet, and is at work on even bigger ones. The dredge used to suck up sediment from the Gulf of Mexico to add 1,000 acres (405 hectares) of habitat to...
Louisiana Roofing Contractor Fined $249,000 for Failure to Comply With Safety Standards
Aug 2 2022 // A Baton Rouge, Louisiana roofing contractor – who ignored federal safety inspectors’ February 2022 warnings that not complying with required fall protection standards exposed their workers to serious dangers –...
Louisiana Judge: State Can’t Order Insurers to Pay Ida Evacuation Expenses
Aug 1 2022 // A Louisiana judge has ruled that the state’s insurance commissioner’s directive ordering insurers to pay policyholders’ Hurricane Ida evacuation expenses is invalid and unenforceable. Judge Patrick Moore...
Louisiana Guaranty Fund to Borrow $600 Million to Pay Claims
Aug 1 2022 // A state-chartered bailout fund is seeking to borrow $600 million after seven Louisiana insurers went bust following 2021’s Hurricane Ida. The Times-Picayune ‘The New Orleans Advocate’ reports that the...
Texas Claims Adjuster Ordered to Cease Business in Louisiana for Allegedly Withholding Payments
Jul 29 2022 // Investigators from the Office of Insurance Fraud and Enforcement at the Louisiana Department of Insurance on July 22 issued non-resident public adjuster Kade Austen Mitchell and his agency a cease-and-desist order and...
Woman Pleads Guilty in Louisiana Staged Auto Collision Scheme
Jul 27 2022 // United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Stacie Wheaton, age 51, of Fairburn, Georgia, pled guilty on July 21, 2022 to count one (1) of her indictment, charging Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud in violation of...
42,000 Louisiana Homeowners to be Dropped by Southern Fidelity Friday
Jul 21 2022 // More than 40,000 homeowners are looking for new insurance policies after an insurance company dropped them, following similar moves by two other companies. Southern Fidelity canceled 42,000 policies Friday, leaving...
Louisiana Guaranty Fund to Borrow $600 Million to Pay Claims
Jul 19 2022 // A state-chartered bailout fund is seeking to borrow $600 million after seven Louisiana insurers went bust following 2021’s Hurricane Ida. The Times-Picayune ‘ The New Orleans Advocate reports that the Louisiana...
Dredging Company Paying $1M for Restoration in Louisiana Oil Spill
Jul 18 2022 // A Houston dredging company has been ordered to pay a $1 million fine for an oil spill that occurred when a subcontractor cut through an oil pipeline during barrier island restoration work off Louisiana in 2016. Great Lakes...
1M Gallons of Oil Collected Since 2019 Spill off Louisiana Coast
Jul 14 2022 // One million gallons of oil have been collected since April 2019 from the site of the nation’s longest oil spill, in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, the Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Louisiana Fertilizer Company to Pay $1.5M Over Hazardous Waste Violations
Jul 14 2022 // The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department, and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) announced a settlement with PCS Nitrogen Fertilizer, L.P. (PCS Nitrogen), to remedy hazardous...
Louisiana Judge: State Can’t Order Insurers to Pay Ida Evacuation Expenses
Jul 13 2022 // A Louisiana judge ruled last week that the state’s insurance commissioner’s directive ordering insurers to pay policyholders’ Hurricane Ida evacuation expenses is invalid and unenforceable. Judge Patrick...
Louisiana Identifies State’s First Known Case of Monkeypox
Jul 11 2022 // Louisiana’s first detected cases of monkeypox have been found in a state resident and a visitor from out of state, the Louisiana Department of Health reported last week. “There are likely more undiagnosed human...
Hub Acquires Louisiana’s Shaver-Robichaux Agency
Jul 8 2022 // Hub International Limited acquired the assets of Shaver-Robichaux Agency, Inc. (Shaver-Robichaux). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Thibodaux and Raceland, Louisiana, Shaver-Robichaux is an...
Louisiana Extends Ida Mediation Program Through End of 2022
Jul 6 2022 // Louisiana’s Hurricane Ida Mediation Program is being extended through December 31, 2022, Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced. The voluntary Hurricane Ida Mediation Program, which is open to...
Louisiana Launches $463M Project to Elevate Hurricane Evacuation Route
Jun 27 2022 // Louisiana state leaders have broken ground for a $463 million project that will elevate 8.3 miles of La. 1, one of the state’s hurricane evacuation routes. The groundbreaking held Friday is for work that will be done...
Settlement Made in Louisiana Workers’ Crawfish Processing Suit
Jun 27 2022 // Six migrant workers would share in a total of more than $21,000 in the proposed settlement of a lawsuit filed last year alleging that a Louisiana crawfish processing business underpaid them in violation of minimum wage...
Dredging Company Paying $1M for Restoration in Louisiana Oil Spill
Jun 24 2022 // A Houston dredging company has been ordered to pay a $1 million fine for an oil spill that occurred when a subcontractor cut through an oil pipeline during barrier island restoration work off Louisiana in 2016. Great Lakes...
Louisiana Lawmakers Seek More Time to Use Katrina Aid
Jun 22 2022 // Members of Congress from Louisiana are calling for federal officials to extend deadlines for spending Hurricane Katrina recovery funds on New Orleans road and water infrastructure projects. Sens. Bill Cassidy and John...
