Latest Louisiana Headlines
All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Business Moves
Sep 19 2011 // LevelFirst LevelFirst is a new diversified wholesale broker and managing general agency based in Dallas, Texas, that serves retail agents in the Southwest and across the country. President and CEO of LevelFirst, Robin...
Appeals Period Starts for Flood Maps in Louisiana’s Bossier Parish
Sep 16 2011 // Residents in Louisiana’s Bossier Parish have 90 days from Sept. 14 to file objections with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the parish’s new flood insurance rate maps. The Times reports that the maps...
Judge in Louisiana Won’t Stop State Health Insurance Contracts
Sep 16 2011 // A Baton Rouge, La., judge has refused to block the state from signing contracts with three private insurance companies chosen to take part in Louisiana’s new health-care delivery system for the poor. In a separate...
Louisiana Court Orders Injunction Against Insurance Fraud Ring
Sep 9 2011 // Insurance regulators in Louisiana say a court has ordered a permanent injunction against members of an insurance fraud ring, banning them from further involvement in the insurance business in that state. Louisiana...
Officials: Louisiana Home-Raisings Prevented Flooding from TS Lee
Sep 8 2011 // Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana officials say an aggressive effort by parish government to use federal grant programs for elevation of homes is a likely reason why so few homes flooded in Terrebonne as a result of Tropical...
After Drenching New Orleans, Tropical Storm Lee Threatens Southeast
Sep 5 2011 // After testing New Orleans’ flood defenses over the weekend, Tropical Storm Lee moved northeast Monday after weakening to a tropical depression, and threatened to bring heavy rains and flooding to a large section of...
People
Sep 5 2011 // Michael Crafts has joined The Woodlands Financial Group as vice president of Sales and Marketing. Crafts has more than 15 years of all lines insurance experience. He started his career with Farmers Insurance Group. Most...
Fitch Upgrades Louisiana Citizens Bonds
Sep 5 2011 // Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort has received a bond rating upgrade from a major ratings agency. Fitch Ratings raised the rating on two series of revenue bonds issued by Louisiana Citizens Property...
Tropical Depression Headed for Louisiana
Sep 2 2011 // A tropical depression that the National Hurricane Center says may intensify into a tropical storm is currently headed for the Louisiana coast. The tropical weather system may bring as much as 20 inches of rain to southern...
Louisiana Worker Insurance Program Valued at Up to $217M
Aug 31 2011 // The market value of a state worker health insurance program that Gov. Bobby Jindal is considering privatizing has been pegged between $133 million and $217 million, according to an audit released Aug. 29. The assessment by...
Man Sentenced to Life in Louisiana for Death of Insurance Agent
Aug 31 2011 // Calling the crime a “despicable act,” a Louisiana judge has sentenced a 22-year-old man to life in prison in the killing of a Georgia insurance agent during an armed robbery at the Waffle House. The Advocate...
Louisiana Citizens’ Bond Rating Upgraded
Aug 29 2011 // Fitch Ratings has upgraded the bond rating of Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort. State Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that the bond rating for Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp....
Louisiana’s Suit Against Katrina Whistleblowers Dismissed
Aug 26 2011 // A federal judge on Aug. 24 dismissed a lawsuit by the state of Louisiana accusing two self-described whistleblowers of illegally copying and circulating documents containing confidential information about homeowners...
Year Old Gulf Oil Spill Claims Fund Has Paid $5 Billion
Aug 23 2011 // The Gulf Coast Claims Facility set up to handle claims from the BP oil disaster has paid out $5 billion after one year of operation. It has paid 204,434 individual and business with a total of 359,441 claims. Established...
Louisiana Man Gets Prison for Fraudulent BP Claim
Aug 22 2011 // A Houma man has been sentenced to one year in prison for fraudulently receiving money from the $20 billion claims fund that BP PLC established after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey also ordered...
La. First-Time Unemployment Claims Increase
Aug 14 2011 // First-time claims for unemployment insurance in Louisiana for the week ending Aug. 6 increased from the previous week’s total. The state labor department figures released Friday show the initial claims increased to...
La. Woman Pleads Guilty to Katrina Fraud
Aug 12 2011 // A Hammond woman pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining nearly $8,000 in disaster assistance from the American Red Cross after Hurricane Katrina. Thirty-year-old Tamara Morris faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in...
6 Louisiana Parishes Designated Disasters
Aug 12 2011 // State agriculture officials say six Louisiana parishes have been declared disaster areas because of the flooding of the Mississippi River this past growing season. Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain said...
Ex – La. Bank Employee Pleads No Contest to Theft
Aug 12 2011 // A former Hammond bank employee has pleaded no contest to a charge of felony theft in connection with the diversion of funds that should have gone to people who had made early cancellations of insurance policies. Amite, La....
Tax Renewal Election Before La. Voters
Aug 11 2011 // DeQuincy, La. residents will vote on a sales tax renewal that could help reduce property insurance premiums. Mayor Lawrence Henagan tells The American Press revenue from the half-cent sales tax is used to support public...
