Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Louisiana’s October Jobless Rate Lowest in More Than 3 Years
Dec 3 2012 // Louisiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 6.6 percent in October, the lowest it has been since April 2009, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Louisiana’s unemployment rate improved...
Kingsway Startup to Sell Homeowners Insurance in Louisiana
Nov 29 2012 // Kingsway Financial Services Inc. announced it has completed the formation Maison Insurance Co. (Maison), a property/casualty insurance company primarily writing wind and hail homeowners coverage in Louisiana. Maison...
Firms Partner to Offer Entertainment Insurance in Louisiana, Gulf South
Nov 29 2012 // New Orleans-based Maginnis Film & Entertainment Insurance Services LLC (MFEIS) and Reiff & Associates LLC announced a strategic partnership to provide insurance to the film and entertainment industries in Louisiana...
Big Bill for Levee Upkeep Comes to New Orleans
Nov 29 2012 // In the busy and under-staffed offices of New Orleans’ flood-control leaders, there’s an uneasy feeling about what lies ahead. By the time the next hurricane season starts in June of 2013, the city will take...
Audit: Louisiana Restaurant Inspections Don’t Ensure Food Safety
Nov 28 2012 // Louisiana’s regulators of food safety fail to ensure restaurants and other retail food establishments are complying with health standards and allow violators of safety requirements to continue operations, according...
Appeals Allow Louisiana Cardiologist Convicted of Fraud to Remain Free
Nov 28 2012 // A former Lafayette cardiologist is asking to remain free pending a request that the U.S. Supreme Court hear an appeal of his 2009 health-care fraud conviction and 10-year prison sentence. The Advocate reports Dr. Mehmood...
Louisiana’s October Jobless Rate Lowest in More Than 3 Years
Nov 27 2012 // Louisiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 6.6 percent in October, the lowest it has been since April 2009, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Louisiana’s unemployment rate improved...
In Louisiana, Private Insurers Come Marching in
Nov 21 2012 // Good news out of the Pelican State. While similar state-run insurance entities in Florida and Texas continue to grow at unsustainable paces, Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has managed to reduce its policy...
Louisiana Citizens Releases Nearly 7K Homeowners Policies
Nov 20 2012 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens) has completed a sixth round of depopulation with 6,877 residential (personal lines) policies being...
Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. $56M in the Red
Nov 19 2012 // Louisiana’s state-run property insurer of last resort is $56 million in the red, after it covers claims for Hurricane Isaac and settles class-action lawsuits for improper handling of past storm claims. Steve...
Louisiana Bills Texas Brine $3.5M for Sinkhole
Nov 19 2012 // The state of Louisiana sent a $3.5 million bill to the Texas company it blames for a massive sinkhole that has swallowed more than five acres of land in Assumption Parish and contaminated an aquifer. Attorney General Buddy...
Post-Isaac FEMA Individual Aid Nears $116M in Louisiana
Nov 15 2012 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved nearly $116 million in individual aid for Louisiana homeowners and renters who experienced damage from Hurricane Isaac. Nearly 32,000 people have received housing...
Inspector General Report Critical of Louisiana State Fire Marshal
Nov 14 2012 // A state inspector general’s wide-ranging report on Louisiana Fire Marshal Butch Browning includes a finding that one of Browning’s inspectors failed to detect mechanical problems with a carnival ride in...
Louisiana Bills Texas Company $3.5M for Sinkhole Costs
Nov 12 2012 // The state of Louisiana sent a $3.5 million bill to the Texas company it blames for a massive sinkhole that has swallowed more than 5 acres of land in Assumption Parish and contaminated an aquifer. Attorney General Buddy...
Louisiana’s State-Run Property Insurer $56M in the Red
Nov 12 2012 // Louisiana’s state-run property insurer of last resort is $56 million in the red, after it covers claims for Hurricane Isaac and settles class-action lawsuits for improper handling of past storm claims. Steve...
Options Few for People Displaced by Huge Sinkhole in Louisiana
Nov 8 2012 // After three months living in a hotel while a sinkhole near his Louisiana home grows and grows, Carl Dugas has realized he won’t be moving back. When he left Aug. 3, he was willing return, though his wife was dubious...
Louisiana Citizens Considering Commercial Property Rate Increase
Nov 7 2012 // Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s board is expected to approve increasing its commercial coverage rates by an average of 45.1 percent statewide this week. Almost all of Citizens’ roughly 5,700...
Louisiana Governor Asking for Vote on Health Insurance Outsourcing Plan
Nov 7 2012 // Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration is returning to lawmakers this week to ask for approval to outsource a state employee health insurance plan. Jindal’s top budget adviser shelved a vote recently when it became...
Attorney’s Advice to Insurers on Reducing Class Action Exposure Post-Sandy
Nov 6 2012 // A veteran attorney who spent several years defending insurance companies in lawsuits from Hurricane Katrina is offering advice to insurers on class action and bad faith exposure post-Sandy. Insurers will be denying claims...
Insurance Commissioner: Auto Theft Declines in Louisiana
Nov 6 2012 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon reported that the number of vehicle thefts in Louisiana has declined nearly 42 percent over a five-year period from 2006 through 2011. The latest figures from the FBI Uniform...
