Latest Louisiana Headlines
All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Louisiana AG: Repairs on Homes with Chinese Drywall Set to Begin
Feb 22 2011 // About 109 Louisiana homeowners impacted by defective drywall will soon see relief as plans are finalized to start the first home repairs, under a court approved pilot remediation program, Attorney General Buddy Caldwell...
Louisiana Insurance Department Recovers More than $9.6M in 2010
Feb 14 2011 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) aided Louisiana insurance consumers in receiving more than $9.6 million in insurance payments from consumer complaints...
Louisiana Presses BP for Oyster Money
Feb 11 2011 // Louisiana’s congressional delegation is asking BP to help Louisiana’s oyster industry immediately. In November, Louisiana asked BP PLC to give it $15 million so the state could start repairing oyster beds...
Brown & Brown Names 4 Regional Vice Presidents
Feb 7 2011 // Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown, Inc. has named regional vice presidents in Washington, Florida, Louisiana and Pennsylvania. Eric E. Anderson, Anthony M. Grippa, Thomas Keith Huval and Richard A. Knudson,...
Chinese Drywall: Cracks in Coverage Claims?
Feb 7 2011 // Although not in the national news as much lately, Chinese drywall continues to disrupt the lives and finances of thousands of homeowners and other users of the product. In the courts, homeowners are fighting to obtain...
License Fees Tied to Credit Cards Rejected in Louisiana
Feb 7 2011 // Lawmakers rejected plans for the Louisiana Department of Insurance to allow credit card payments for licenses, because they objected to the sliding scale of fees tacked onto card payments. The department had proposed the...
Geographer Recreates ‘The Great Louisiana Hurricane of 1812’
Feb 3 2011 // Nearly 200 years before Hurricane Katrina, a major storm hit the coast of Louisiana just west of New Orleans. Because the War of 1812 was simultaneously raging, the hurricane’s strength, direction and other...
Mississippi AG Asks Court to Intervene in BP Oil Spill Claims Fund
Feb 2 2011 // U.S. courts must compel the administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill fund to meet his legal obligations and stop short-changing victims of the Gulf of Mexico disaster, Mississippi said on Tuesday. Until now,...
Louisiana Insurance Agent Arrested for Unfair Trade Practices
Feb 1 2011 // Troopers with the Lafayette Field Office of the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud Unit recently arrested a Ville Platte insurance agent for unfair trade practices. In October 2010, troopers received a criminal...
Insurance License Fees Tied to Credit Cards Rejected in Louisiana
Jan 31 2011 // Lawmakers rejected plans for the Louisiana Department of Insurance to allow credit card payments for licenses, because they objected to the sliding scale of fees tacked onto card payments. The department had proposed the...
Judge Defends Spill Decision That Upset Louisiana AG
Jan 31 2011 // A federal judge said Jan. 28 that he wasn’t trying to deprive states of their rights when he appointed Alabama’s newly elected attorney general to coordinate all states’ interests in the litigation...
Home Foreclosure Filings Up in Louisiana Metro Areas
Jan 28 2011 // Five Louisiana metropolitan areas saw home foreclosure activity jump in 2010 as the national housing crisis spread from its initial hot spots, a tracking firm said. Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac said foreclosure filings...
Louisiana Gained 26,300 Non-Farm Jobs in 2010
Jan 27 2011 // Louisiana added 26,300 non-farm jobs in 2010 as it continued to plow through a slow economic recovery, state labor officials said. The state still had 42,200 fewer jobs last month, on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, than...
People
Jan 24 2011 // Incoming Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak has appointed 10 members of his staff to lead the Oklahoma Insurance Department: Mike Rhoads is deputy commissioner of Health Insurance; Denise Engle is deputy...
Ex-Parish Officials in Louisiana Face Ethics Charges Tied to Insurance
Jan 13 2011 // Louisiana officials have filed ethics charges against former Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard and his former top administrator. The Times-Picayune reported that most of charges filed by the state ethics board are...
Declarations
Jan 10 2011 // Great News “This announcement, particularly in light of the difficult economic challenges facing the entire country, is great news for Citizens and for the insurance market in Louisiana.” —Louisiana Insurance...
Federal Judge Dismisses Suits Against Insurers Over Chinese Drywall Coverage
Jan 10 2011 // A federal judge in Louisiana in mid-December let 10 insurance companies being sued by Louisiana homeowners over property damage resulting from the installation of defective drywall from China off the hook for coverage from...
People
Jan 10 2011 // Todd Teitell, executive vice president and branch leader of AmWINS Brokerage of Texas in Dallas, has been elected president of the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. Other elected TSLA officers for the coming year...
2011 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory
Jan 10 2011 // Welcome to Insurance Journal’s 2011 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Louisiana Policyholders Fail to Claim $133M in Rebates
Jan 10 2011 // Property insurance policyholders in Louisiana have missed the chance to claim almost $133 million in rebates that had been available before the end of 2010. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says the money — part of...
