Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Louisiana Adds More Jobs Year-Over-Year; Baton Rouge, Hammond MSAs Set Records
Dec 24 2019 // Preliminary data released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) shows that the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, metropolitan statistical area (MSA) set another nonfarm employment record at 415,200 jobs for November 2019,...
Louisiana Governor Declares Emergency After Severe Weather, Tornadoes
Dec 23 2019 // Louisiana is under a state of emergency after an outbreak of severe weather and tornadoes swept through the region. Gov. John Bel Edwards issued the order on Dec. 18, after a line of storms associated with a cold front...
Louisiana’s Fidelis Group Holdings Promotes 3 in Claims Division
Dec 20 2019 // Fidelis Group Holdings LLC (FGH), a Covington, Louisiana-based provider of marine insurance coverage and services, has made three key promotions in its claims division, Fidelis Claims Service LLC (FCS). Christian Kelly has...
Louisiana Transportation Department to Implement New Roadwork Safety Measures
Dec 19 2019 // Louisiana’s transportation department will boost safety measures at its roadwork sites, the agency’s secretary announced at a ceremony honoring an employee killed on the job this summer. Department of...
4 Dead After Storms Leave ‘Trail of Destruction’ Across the South
Dec 19 2019 // A swarm of tornadoes and storms that left a trail of destruction across the Southeast killed four people, injured at least a dozen more and left victims to bundle up against the cold as they picked up pieces of their homes...
Louisiana’s Fidelis Group Holdings Changes Management Structure
Dec 18 2019 // Covington, Louisiana-based Fidelis Group Holdings LLC (FGH), a provider of marine insurance coverage and services, has created a new senior management structure for the company and its subsidiaries, Continental...
4 Dead, Including 1 in Louisiana, as Twisters, Storms Batter the South
Dec 18 2019 // A swarm of tornadoes and storms that left a trail of destruction across the Southeast killed four people, injured a dozen more and left victims to bundle up against the cold as they picked up pieces of their homes...
Another Cyberattack Attempt in Louisiana: Sheriff’s Offices
Dec 17 2019 // Three Louisiana parish sheriff’s offices were targeted by hackers over the weekend in a suspected cyberattack, officials confirmed. The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office received a call from the Sheriff’s...
USDA Designates Some Louisiana Parishes as Natural Disaster Areas
Dec 16 2019 // Agriculture producers in some Louisiana parishes now may be eligible for assistance from the federal government due to losses from Hurricane Barry, the state’s agriculture commissioner reported. Louisiana Agriculture...
Declarations
Dec 16 2019 // Louisiana Cyberattack “Now that we’ve had this incident, does that put a target on our back, kind of, for more bad guys to hit our system?” — Louisiana state Sen. Sharon Hewitt, a Republican from...
Louisiana’s Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Adds Lege, Moore
Dec 12 2019 // Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Co., based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has hired Brandon Lege as director of Loss Prevention and John Moore as a production underwriter. Lege was formerly the safety and training manager for...
Request for Proposals Announcement
Dec 9 2019 // Metairie, LA, December 9, 2019 – Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (‘LCPIC’), has released a new request for proposals for vendors to service insurance claims after a catastrophe, such as in...
For Second Year in a Row, Louisiana Flunks R Street’s Insurance Report Card
Dec 4 2019 // The 2019 edition of the R Street Institute’s annual Insurance Regulation Report Card is out and, for the second year in a row, Louisiana has the ignominious distinction of finishing dead last. By our lights, the...
FedNat Completes Acquisition of 1347 Property Insurance Homeowners Operations
Dec 4 2019 // FedNat Holding Company (FNHC), an insurance holding company, has completed its acquisition of the homeowners insurance operations of 1347 Property Insurance Holdings, Inc. (PIH), consisting of Maison Insurance Co., Maison...
Analysis: Louisiana Government Cyberattack Could Have Been Worse
Dec 3 2019 // The cyberattack on Louisiana’s state government computer servers disrupted agency operations and made going to the Office of Motor Vehicles even more headache-inducing than usual. But it was nowhere near the...
Request for Proposals Announcement
Dec 2 2019 // Metairie, LA, December 2, 2019 – Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (‘LCPIC’), has released a new request for proposals for vendors to service insurance claims after a catastrophe, such as in...
Attempted Cyberattack Disrupts Louisiana Government Websites
Nov 20 2019 // Many of Louisiana’s state government websites and email systems were shut down because of what the governor’s office is describing as an attempted ransomware attack. The problem Monday disrupted business...
Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease Approved for Louisiana
Nov 8 2019 // A filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) that would reduce workers’ compensation insurance rates in Louisiana by 8.4% next year has been approved by Louisiana Insurance Commissioner...
Cost of Medical Marijuana Questioned in Louisiana
Nov 6 2019 // Three months after medical marijuana became available in Louisiana, doctors and clinics say some patients are finding the cost for therapeutic cannabis too high for treatment, pricing them out of a medication they waited...
Louisiana’s Excalibur Has a New Name: Lighthouse Excalibur Insurance
Nov 5 2019 // Louisiana-based Excalibur Insurance Co. is now officially named Lighthouse Excalibur Insurance Co., following its acquisition by Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp. The name change was unveiled on Nov. 1. In May,...
