Latest Louisiana Headlines
All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Counties with Levees Are Some of the Nation’s Most Economically Sound, Report Says
Jan 25 2010 // Hundreds of levees around the United States protect vulnerable areas and tens of millions of people from potentially devastating floods. Yet hardly anyone gives them a second thought until one is breached. The most glaring...
Report: Counties with Levees Are Among the Nation’s Most Economically Sound
Jan 24 2010 // Flooding Costs Are Outweighed by Regional Economic Benefits Hundreds of levees around the United States protect vulnerable areas and tens of millions of people from potentially devastating floods each year. Yet hardly...
Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish OKs St. Bernard Levee Plan
Jan 20 2010 // Resolving what could have been a four-month delay to a crucial piece of the levee system around St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, the Plaquemines Parish Council has approved a plan for a small stretch of the project to cross...
Entergy, Insurers File Second Suit Against Corps Over Katrina Flooding
Jan 19 2010 // Entergy Corp. has filed a second suit against the Army Corps of Engineers over flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina, leaving behind hundreds of millions of dollars to power systems and higher rates for hundreds of...
Louisiana Citizens Shedding More Homeowners Policies
Jan 19 2010 // Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., which insures homes and commercial properties shunned by private companies, continues to shed policies. The company’s chief executive officer, John Wortman, said he hopes...
Louisiana AG Sues Chinese Drywall Manufacturers and Distributors
Jan 14 2010 // Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell filed suit in Orleans Parish against multiple Knauf entities, other international and domestic manufacturers, distributors, importers of alleged toxic Chinese drywall. Several...
State Farm Seeking 19.1 Percent Statewide Rate Hike in Louisiana
Jan 11 2010 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co., Louisiana’s largest homeowners insurer, has asked insurance regulators for a rate increase that would average 19.1 percent statewide with coastal residents taking the brunt. The...
Louisiana Parish President Quits Amid Federal Probe with Insurance Ties
Jan 11 2010 // Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard, a Democrat who rose from small-city mayor to lead Louisiana’s most populous parish, has resigned as federal officials investigated alleged corruption in parish government....
Texas, Louisiana Homeowners Insurance Pricey; Florida Most Expensive
Jan 10 2010 // Louisiana remains the third most expensive homeowners insurance market in the nation behind Florida and Texas, according to newly released data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The average premium...
Louisiana Files Suit Against Surety Bond Insurer with Texas Ties
Jan 10 2010 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance filed a lawsuit in late December 2009 against Infinity Surety of Louisiana Inc., Infinity Surety Agency LLC and George D. Black (collectively, Infinity Surety) alleging the firm has...
Panel Restores Louisiana Agent’s License; Says No Evidence for Suspension
Jan 8 2010 // A Shreveport, La.-area insurance agent’s license was reinstated after an administrative law panel found no evidence that it should have been suspended by the Louisiana Department of Insurance. The department...
Louisiana Workers’ Comp Insurer Says Claims Fell 4% in 2009
Jan 8 2010 // Baton Rouge, La.-based LUBA Workers’ Comp policyholders’ claims fell more than 4 percent in 2009 compared with 2008. The company said several of the top categories of accidents dropped as well. Slips, trips and...
Chinese Drywall Lawsuit Filed in Louisiana but Most Claims Are in Florida
Jan 7 2010 // On Jan. 6, the WCI Chinese Drywall Trust, an entity formed in bankruptcy proceedings of residential homebuilder WCI Communities Inc., announced it had filed suit against 14 insurance companies seeking indemnification for...
Louisiana Medical Mutual Declares 10% Dividend to All Policyholders
Jan 7 2010 // For the third consecutive year, the Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company will be returning a dividend to all LAMMICO policyholders in Louisiana and Arkansas. Nearly 6,000 policyholders will receive a 10 percent...
New Orleans Metro Area Ties for Lowest Unemployment Rate
Jan 7 2010 // The New Orleans metro area tied for the lowest unemployment rate among the nation’s largest metropolitan areas, according to a report released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Louisiana Workforce...
Louisiana Homeowners Insurance Pricey; Texas, Florida More Expensive
Jan 5 2010 // Louisiana remains the third most expensive homeowners insurance market in the nation behind Florida and Texas, according to newly released data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The average premium...
Car Insurance Premiums to Rise for Many Louisiana Drivers
Dec 31 2009 // A law that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2010, increasing the required minimum liability auto insurance coverage is expected to increase insurance rates for more than 1 million Louisiana motorists. Though the change was...
Louisiana Secretary of State Named Chief Deputy Insurance Commissioner
Dec 30 2009 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon has named Secretary of State Al Ater to serve as chief deputy commissioner of insurance, effective Jan. 11, 2010. Ater was chief deputy commissioner of insurance from July...
La. Firm Accused of Selling Bogus Bonds
Dec 28 2009 // Louisiana insurance regulators are suing a company accused of selling worthless construction bonds for bids on hundreds of millions of dollars in government projects, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said last...
Report Recommends Phasing Out Louisiana’s State Insurer Citizens
Dec 23 2009 // Among the many recommendations made by Louisiana’s Commission on Streamlining Government in its Dec. 14 report to the state legislature is one that would phase out the state’s property insurer of last...
