Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Dispute with Louisiana Insurance Department, Legislature Resolved
Mar 24 2008 // Steve Theriot, Louisiana’s legislative auditor, said a legal dispute between the legislature and state insurance department has been resolved. The dispute involved Theriot’s demand that Insurance Commissioner...
Business Moves
Mar 24 2008 // Texas Farmers Insurance Company Texas Farmers Insurance Company filed a rate increase for its “Texas Family Home Policy” with the Texas Department of Insurance. The increase would impact 200,000 customers or...
People
Mar 24 2008 // McQueary Henry Bowles Troy hired Jimmy Balagia as senior vice president in the firm’s property and casualty group in Austin. Balagia has 30 years of experience as a property and casualty broker/consultant and...
Help Finally Available for Louisiana’s Hurricane-Weary Fishermen
Mar 21 2008 // For the past two and a half years, Louisiana’s fishermen have relied on their natural gift for resourcefulness and made do with jury-rigged docks cobbled together from hurricane debris and spent countless hours in...
Louisiana’s Katrina-Hit Areas Among Fastest-Growing Counties
Mar 21 2008 // New Orleans and nearby St. Bernard Parish, areas that suffered huge population losses after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, are regaining residents so fast that they topped the U.S. Census Bureau’s list of...
Former La. Lawmaker: Restitution Cash from Insurance Co. Liquidation
Mar 20 2008 // Former Louisiana Senate president Michael O’Keefe, serving 19.5 years for stealing from a failed medical malpractice insurance company, said he and his codefendants plan to pay $4.7 million in restitution by using...
FEMA Changes Appeals Process for Rebuilding Projects in La.
Mar 19 2008 // State and federal officials are touting changes to the process for Louisiana communities to appeal decisions by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on funding to rebuild schools, roads, hospitals and other...
Louisiana Work Comp Rates Dropping
Mar 18 2008 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that rates for workers’ compensation insurance are decreasing in Louisiana, based on a recent report from the National Council on Compensation Insurance...
Louisiana Lawmakers Approve Millions for Road, Bridge Projects
Mar 17 2008 // Louisiana Lawmakers have approved sweeping interstate expansions and the repaving of miles of highways as part of their plans to pour more than half of a billion-dollar state surplus into transportation projects. During...
Court Reinstates $6.3M Judgment Against State in La. Road Case
Mar 14 2008 // The state of Louisiana must pay $6.3 million plus interest to a wreck victim severely injured when ejected from the car of a suspected drunk driver speeding in Baton Rouge in 1994, a state appellate court has ruled. The...
Newton Joins GeoVera Holdings as State Executive for Louisiana
Mar 13 2008 // GeoVera Holdings announced that Bill Newton, a former Louisiana deputy insurance commissioner, has joined the company as Louisiana state executive. Newton will lead the company’s entrance into the Louisiana...
Attorneys Seek to Expand Lawsuit Arising from I-10 Well Blowout in La.
Mar 12 2008 // Attorneys for a Louisiana truck stop are seeking class-action status for a lawsuit against the company whose well blowout forced the closure of Interstate 10 last year. Silver’s Travel Center in Breaux Bridge filed a...
Conflicts Arising in Federal Rulings in Louisiana Hurricane Cases
Mar 11 2008 // Conflicting rulings by federal judges in New Orleans and in Lake Charles, La., are having major effects on how much money homeowners can collect on damage from the 2005 hurricanes, and there is no quick end to the conflict...
People
Mar 10 2008 // Midlands Management Corp. of Oklahoma City named Richard Jonathan Bird as executive vice president and chief operating officer. Bird will assist in leading all aspects of Midlands, including strategic marketing, business...
Report: Change in Contractors, Computer System Hindered La. Citizens
Mar 10 2008 // A Louisiana Insurance Department report shows that the state-sponsored Citizens Property Insurance Corp. had trouble handling claims for hurricanes Katrina and Rita because it was switching to new outside contractors and...
La. Judge Won’t Remove Broussard, Jeff Parish from Flood Lawsuit
Mar 7 2008 // A state judge in Louisiana has refused to remove Jefferson Parish and its president from a lawsuit filed by parish residents over flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina. At issue in the lawsuit is the decision to...
Brunning Named Sr. VP, Regional Partner for Willis Group of Louisiana
Mar 6 2008 // Willis Group Holdings has appointed Nigel Brunning as senior vice president and regional partner for Willis of Louisiana Inc., the company announced. Brunning’s responsibilities include branch management of...
Insurer Group Backs La. Auto-Related Bills
Mar 6 2008 // The American Insurance Association announced it is supporting a package of bills introduced by the Louisiana Property and Casualty Insurance Commission designed to improve safety on Louisiana road ways. The Louisiana...
La. Lawmaker Wants to Commemorate Katrina, Rita with Holiday
Mar 4 2008 // A state lawmaker from New Orleans has filed three bills that could make state holidays out of the anniversaries of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which devastated the Louisiana coast in 2005. The bills by Rep. Juan LaFonta,...
Mar. 4 is Deadline to Apply for La. $100M Insurer Grant Program
Mar 3 2008 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that the deadline for applications to the Insure Louisiana Incentive Program is March 4, 2008. The program offers property insurers up to $10 million in matching grant money....
