Latest Louisiana Headlines
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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...
Louisiana GOP Seeks to Divert $190M in Flood Aid to Protection Project
May 4 2017 // House Republican lawmakers are proposing to divert $190 million of Louisiana’s congressional disaster-recovery money to a flood-protection project, a move that would shrink aid earmarked for homeowners struggling to...
Louisiana’s Retailers Casualty Reports $1.7M Policyholder Dividend
May 2 2017 // Baton Rouge, La.-based Retailers Casualty Insurance Co., a workers’ comp insurer managed by Summit, has declared a $1.7 million policyholder dividend for the 2015 policy year. Retailers Casualty policies are...
Louisiana’s State Roads, Bridges Are ‘Embarrassing,’ Engineers Say
May 1 2017 // Louisiana civil engineers have graded the state’s roads and bridges, and they claimed the results were “embarrassing.” The Advocate reports that roads were given a D grade and bridges a D-plus in the...
Disappearing Coastline Is a Crisis and an Emergency, Louisiana’s Governor Says
May 1 2017 // Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on April 19 signed an emergency proclamation declaring the Louisiana Coast is in a state of crisis and emergency. The emergency proclamation sent to President Donald Trump and members of...
People – South Central
May 1 2017 // Tim Brady, shareholder and senior vice president of Texas-based Brady, Chapman, Holland and Associates Inc., has been elected to the board of directors of RiskProNet International, an association of independent insurance...
Contract for Louisiana Flood Aid Program Administrator to Cost $227M
Apr 26 2017 // Louisiana’s contract with disaster recovery firm IEM to administer a homeowner flood aid program is estimated to cost $227 million. The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report says the state has completed its deal with...
Bad: Train Clips Mirror; Worse: Louisiana Driver Opens Door, Loses It
Apr 26 2017 // After a train clipped a side mirror off a car, the driver lost his whole door when he pulled up to another intersection and opened it to tell the crew, police in southwest Louisiana said. Nobody was hurt, and 64-year-old...
