Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Louisiana Adds Hurdles to Prevent ‘Doctor Shopping’ for Opioid Drugs
Jun 5 2017 // Hoping to stop people from “doctor shopping” for highly addictive painkillers, Louisiana lawmakers have ordered physicians to consult a statewide prescription monitoring program before prescribing opioid...
Louisiana Woman Gets a Year in Prison for Insurance Fraud
Jun 5 2017 // A 54-year-old Louisiana woman has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for insurance fraud, and must pay $9,100 restitution. Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander Van Hook said in a news release that Lasandra Laverne...
Louisiana, Arkansas Enact Flooding Emergency Rules
Jun 5 2017 // Both Louisiana and Arkansas recently enacted emergency regulations aimed at protecting insureds in the aftermath of devastating floods in those states. Louisiana’s action extends an emergency rule put in place...
90% of Louisiana Parishes Declared Disaster Areas in Last 18 Months
Jun 5 2017 // In advance of the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, the Louisiana Department of Insurance pointed out that over the last 18 months, nearly 90 percent of the state’s parishes have been included in major disaster...
Fake Arkansas Insurance Broker Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison
Jun 1 2017 // An Arkansas man who pretended to be an insurance broker and collected more than $1 million selling fake insurance policies in three states has been sentenced to more than five years in prison, the Arkansas Insurance...
Bill Creating Workers’ Comp Drug Formulary Advances in Louisiana
Jun 1 2017 // A bill establishing a workers’ compensation closed drug formulary in Louisiana passed the House and has been referred to the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. A legislative analysis of House Bill...
Uber, Lyft Statewide Regulation Bill Deemed Dead in Louisiana
Jun 1 2017 // Louisiana won’t join 44 other states in regulating ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft after a proposal to standardize rules and expand access to smaller cities was blocked by New Orleans lawmakers, the...
Louisiana Fake-Crash Scheme Leads to 13 Arrests
May 30 2017 // Louisiana State Police say 13 people have been arrested in connection with an insurance fraud scheme involving staged automobile crashes. A news release says the May 25 arrests followed an investigation that began with...
Louisiana Disaster Declarations in Last 18 Months Involved Nearly 90% of Parishes
May 24 2017 // With hurricane season fast approaching, the Louisiana Department of Insurance is pointing out that in the last 18 months, nearly 90 percent of the state’s parishes have been included in major disaster...
Louisiana Getting Another $51M in Federal Flood Aid
May 22 2017 // Louisiana’s getting another $51 million in federal dollars to help with recovery from last year’s floods. U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy announced the latest figure Thursday. He says the U.S. Department of Housing and...
New Louisiana Emergency Rule Extends Flood-Impacted Policyholder Protection
May 15 2017 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says a new emergency rule extends the time in which policyholders affected by August 2016 flooding have to comply with insurance policy provisions. Emergency Rule 33 continues...
Louisiana Flood Damage Survey Help Sessions Planned
May 15 2017 // Louisiana is holding outreach sessions to help homeowners with damage from last year’s floods to fill out a survey that is the initial step to requesting aid from the state. Six events are scheduled across Louisiana...
Louisiana Bill to Limit Opioids for Injured Workers Passes Committee
May 15 2017 // Hoping to prevent fatal overdoses, a House committee passed a bill to make it harder for injured Louisiana workers to access highly-addictive opioid drugs. Lawmakers voted 8-5 on May 11 to have prescribers consult a...
Louisiana Worker’ Comp Rates Are Down, but Costs per Claim Growing
May 15 2017 // Workers’ compensation rates decreased statewide in Louisiana on May 1 by 9.8 percent, marking the fourth year in a row rates have dropped in that state, according to insurance regulators. In January, the Louisiana...
How a Border-Adjustment Tax Would Hurt Louisiana’s Insurance Market
May 12 2017 // Louisiana already has some of the highest property insurance rates in the nation. But they could creep higher still—an estimated $1.11 billion higher over the next decade—should congressional tax-reform efforts limit...
BP Settles with Louisiana Parish Over Oil Spill for $45M
May 11 2017 // A coastal Louisiana parish announced a $45 million settlement with BP over damages from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil spill. Plaquemines Parish juts out into the Gulf of Mexico from Louisiana’s southeastern tip. Oil...
Louisiana Lawmakers Dismiss Plan to Ban Speed Enforcement Cameras
May 10 2017 // Voters won’t be deciding whether they want to ban certain traffic cameras in Louisiana. The House transportation committee resoundingly defeated the proposal from Republican Rep. Paul Hollis, of Covington, to...
Louisiana Scraps Proposal to Use $190M in Flood Aid for Canal Project
May 8 2017 // A proposal to divert $190 million of Louisiana’s disaster recovery money to a flood protection project was scrapped amid criticism that it risked stripping aid from thousands of homeowners trying to rebuild after...
Louisiana Commissioner Requests Flood Insurance Proof of Loss Extension
May 5 2017 // Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to further extend the filing deadline for Louisiana policyholders impacted by the August flood. FEMA’s National Flood...
Louisiana’s Schilling and Texas’ Shepard Receive Big ‘I’ Awards
May 5 2017 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) honored two agents from South Central states with awards at the annual Big “I” Legislative Conference. Lee Schilling...
