Latest Louisiana Headlines
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State Farm Raising Auto Insurance Rates in Louisiana
Jan 21 2014 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance, which covers about one in every three cars in Louisiana, is raising insurance rates for drivers. The company announced on Jan. 17 that the increases will average 3.4 percent,...
Senate Re-Election Politics Boosts Flood Insurance Delay Proposals
Jan 16 2014 // Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will do just about anything to help Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu. He arranged the chamber’s floor agenda this week so Landrieu could lead debate on a flood insurance rate reprieve...
Chief of Uninsured Louisiana Police Department Asked to Step Down
Jan 15 2014 // Citing liability issues, the mayor of Sorrento, La., and four of five Town Council members are calling for Police Chief Earl Theriot Jr. to resign on the same day that Theriot and Assistant Chief Ricky Smith started...
Secret Benefactor Aiding Louisiana Parish in Gustav Claims Fight
Jan 14 2014 // A financial institution is paying lawyers $700 per hour to help Louisiana’s Livingston Parish fight the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s denials of $60 million in claims for Hurricane Gustav-related...
Sans Insurance, Police Chief Going Back on Patrol in Louisiana Town
Jan 14 2014 // Sorrento, La., Police Chief Earl Theriot Jr. and his assistant chief are going back on patrol, but without the special type of insurance coverages required for police patrols. The town’s police department has been...
Dileo Promoted to Sr. VP at Louisiana-Based Stonetrust Commercial Insurance
Jan 5 2014 // Michael G. Dileo has been promoted to the position of senior vice president of operations at Louisiana-based regional workers’ compensation underwriter Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Co. Dileo has almost 25 years of...
Without Insurance, Year Begins with Uncertainty for Sorrento, Louisiana Police
Jan 5 2014 // As the new year begins, the law enforcement situation in Sorrento, which lost its Police Department insurance coverage in November, remains murky. The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office will continue to provide law...
$1.5B in Louisiana Hurricane Recovery Aid Remains Unspent
Jan 3 2014 // Louisiana has yet to spend $1.5 billion of federal disaster recovery aid provided by Congress after hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike ravaged the state in 2005 and 2008. The flexible block grant rebuilding and...
Appeals Court to Fast-Track BP’s Bid to Halt Gulf Oil Spill Payments
Jan 3 2014 // BP Plc’s bid to block economic-loss payments tied to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill unless the claims can be directly linked to the disaster won fast-track consideration by an appeals court. The London-based...
Texas Brine Draws up New Plans for Louisiana Sinkhole
Jan 2 2014 // Records show that Texas Brine Co. has developed a backup plan to replace the cracked southern section of a protective levee surrounding the sinkhole in Louisiana’s northern Assumption Parish and may look to reroute...
Commissioner: Louisiana Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates to Decrease
Dec 31 2013 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that rates for workers’ compensation insurance will decrease in Louisiana effective May 1, 2014. Commissioner Donelon recently approved a 5.1 percent decrease...
Louisiana Judge Ends Katrina Flooding Lawsuits Against Feds
Dec 30 2013 // Dozens of lawsuits seeking damages from the federal government for Hurricane Katrina-related levee failures and flooding in the New Orleans area are over. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. has dismissed the cases. The...
Hearing: Which Court Should Hear Louisiana Coastal Lawsuit ?
Dec 20 2013 // A legal tug-of-war continues in a Louisiana state levee board’s lawsuit against 97 oil, gas and pipeline companies over the erosion of wetlands. The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East wants U.S....
LeBreton Joins Specialty Risk Associates in Louisiana
Dec 19 2013 // Shreveport, La.-based Specialty Risk Associates Inc. announced that Sue LeBreton joined the firm as a commercial lines underwriter. Prior to joining Specialty Risk Associates, LeBreton worked for nine years as a senior...
LAMMICO Declares 10.5% Dividend for Medical Liability Policyholders
Dec 18 2013 // The board of directors of medical professional liability insurer, LAMMICO, has declared another dividend for all policyholders in Louisiana and Arkansas, marking the seventh time since 2008 the company has authorized the...
BP Seeks Halt to Oil Spill Payments to Seafood Firms, Alleges Attorney Fraud
Dec 18 2013 // BP Plc asked a U.S. judge to stop payments in the $2.3 billion seafood-industry portion of its settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill pending an investigation of fraud claims against a plaintiffs’...
OSHA Fines Geismar, Louisiana Plant $99K for 6 Safety Violations
Dec 13 2013 // The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed fines of $99,000 against Williams Olefins for a June explosion at its plant in Geismar, La., that killed two workers and injured 80. OSHA cited the...
Louisiana Citizens Insurance Depopulation Highest in Five Years
Dec 12 2013 // The total policy count for Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens) is dropping below 95,000 personal and commercial policies following the latest round of the Citizens depopulation program, the Louisiana...
Deadline to Claim 2009 Louisiana Citizens Insurance Rebates Near
Dec 12 2013 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is reminding property insurance policyholders that the clock is ticking on the deadline to claim a rebate for the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens)...
Louisiana Seeks to Block Docs from Steering Patients Into Insurance Plans
Dec 11 2013 // Doctors who steer Medicaid patients into specific health insurance plans could face heavy sanctions under an emergency rule the state started this month. Calder Lynch, chief of staff for the state’s health agency,...
