Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Louisiana Governor: We’re Not Waiting for the Corps on Flooding Issues
May 13 2011 // Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said that while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has not given specific time for opening the Morganza Spillway on the Mississippi River upstream from New Orleans to reduce the possibility of...
Fontenot Named Deputy Commissioner at Louisiana Insurance Department
May 13 2011 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that Emma Fontenot has assumed the position of deputy commissioner of the Office of Health for the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI). Fontenot most recently...
Business Losses Due to Civil Authority Action: When Is There Coverage?
May 12 2011 // Virtually all insurance policies contain provisions and exclusions dealing with events that most insureds consider so remote and unlikely that they rarely give any thought to their possible occurrence, much less what...
Louisiana Ag Chief Wants Disaster Designation for Spillway Opening
May 11 2011 // Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., is urging the United States Department of Agriculture Office of Risk Management to categorize the opening of the Morganza Spillway as a natural...
Louisiana Town Works to Save Economic Engine From Flood
May 11 2011 // They call it the Vidalia Riverfront — a strip of land between the Mississippi River and the levee, with a park, walking trail, a camp ground, and $75 million worth of buildings that generate 300 jobs for this town of...
Audit: Louisiana Horsemen Used Benefits Dollars for Trips, Lobbying
May 10 2011 // A new report says an organization representing Louisiana racing horse owners and trainers used money earmarked for medical, pension and workers’ compensation benefits for expensive lobbying efforts and lavish trips...
Louisiana Seeks Large Share of Oil Spill Liability Money
May 6 2011 // State officials say Louisiana was hurt more than other states by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and so should get more money than other states from companies responsible for the disaster. Garret Graves, who leads the...
Louisiana Prepares for Higher Water Levels Than Expected
May 5 2011 // Emergency officials in Louisiana are preparing for even higher Mississippi River water levels than had previously been estimated, after additional rain fell in the lower Ohio River Valley, according to Gov. Bobby...
Louisiana’s Amerisafe Sees Hike in Written Premiums in Q1 2011
May 3 2011 // DeRidder, La.-based Amerisafe, Inc. a specialty provider of hazardous workers’ compensation insurance, announced that premiums earned during the first quarter ended March 31, 2011, rose 9.1 percent over that of the...
Coastal Risk Expands into Louisiana, Florida
May 3 2011 // Coastal Risk Underwriters (CRU), a subsidiary of Insight Catastrophe Group, will begin writing homeowners insurance in Louisiana and 15 counties in Florida. CRU provides insurance capacity to large national and regional...
Business Losses Due to ‘Action’ by Civil Authorities: When Is There Coverage?
May 2 2011 // Virtually all insurance policies contain provisions and exclusions dealing with events that most insureds consider so remote and unlikely that they rarely give any thought to their possible occurrence, much less what...
Louisiana Insurance Agent Gets Prison in Fraud Case
Apr 29 2011 // A 67-year-old Plaquemine, La., insurance agent has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for mail fraud that cost several of his insurance clients nearly $1.4 million. U.S. District Judge Brian A....
Lawmakers Question Louisiana Governor’s Insurance Privatization Plan
Apr 28 2011 // Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s top financial advisor has defended the administration’s proposal to hire a private company to run a state worker and retiree health insurance program, rebutting complaints the...
New Orleans Construction Product Supplier Settles in Chinese Drywall Suit
Apr 27 2011 // A settlement agreement has been reached with a New Orleans, La.-based supplier of tainted Chinese drywall in the multi-district litigation (MDL 2047) over the product. Interior/Exterior Building Supply L.P. and the...
One Year After BP Oil Spill, Optimism on Gulf Coast
Apr 21 2011 // A year after the worst U.S. offshore oil spill swamped the Gulf coast with petroleum and misery, officials Wednesday declared the hard-hit region reborn. It is still too early to know the long-term damage to the...
Louisiana Lawmaker Fined Over Legal Work for State-Backed Insurer
Apr 18 2011 // A Baton Rouge, La., state lawmaker’s law firm has been fined for violating state ethics law, by doing legal work for the state-run property insurer of last resort. Jackson Bell Attorneys LLC – the law firm of...
Seeking to Privatize, Louisiana Ousts Chief of Group Benefits Office
Apr 18 2011 // Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration on April 15 ousted the CEO of the state-run health insurance office, the Office of Group Benefits, as the governor seeks to privatize parts of the operation. The...
HMO Ordered to Cover Claims in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma
Apr 18 2011 // The Louisiana Supreme Court on April 1 ordered health maintenance organization Health Net Inc. to cover more than $180 million in claims by consumers, health care providers and creditors in Louisiana, Oklahoma and...
Mississippi AG Hood, Feinberg Spat Over BP Oil Spill Claims
Apr 15 2011 // The administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill fund says Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood could undermine the claims process by urging a court to intervene and by making allegations that border on...
One Year Later, Gulf States Still Grappling with BP Oil Disaster
Apr 15 2011 // When a BP oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico last April, killing 11 workers, authorities first reported that no crude was leaking into the ocean. They were wrong. The disaster that captivated the world’s...
