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Lawsuit Filed in La. Against Insurers, Commissioner Over Katrina Damages
Sep 16 2005 // Plaintiff attorneys with the McKernan Law Firm – Jerry McKernan, Joe Bruno, Calvin Fayard and Vernon Thomas – reported that they have filed a suit seeking a speedy, favorable resolution that all property and...
Insurance Council of Texas: Insurers Want to Hear from Katrina Victims
Sep 16 2005 // Evacuees who have come to Texas should contact their insurance companies as soon as possible, according to the Insurance Council of Texas. Adjusters representing insurers have begun the process of entering the areas...
LexisNexis Experts Say Insurance Policy Key in Reported Louisiana Nursing Home Negligence
Sep 15 2005 // An insurance policy purchased by the nursing home owners charged Wednesday with negligent homicide in the deaths of 34 residents as a result of Hurricane Katrina may be a source of recovery for aggrieved parties and is...
Hartwig Moss Agency Sets Up Temporary Offices in Mandeville, La.
Sep 15 2005 // New Orleans-based Hartwig Moss Insurance Agency announced it has established temporary offices in Mandeville, La., in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The company said it has limited phone services but that its landlines are...
Pa. Planners Turn Focus to How to Handle Potential Katrina-like Crisis
Sep 14 2005 // The size and complexity of the Hurricane Katrina disaster are forcing Pennsylvania’s emergency planners to confront new questions about how well the state might handle a civil emergency of similar magnitude. Floods...
La. Nursing Home Owners Surrender
Sep 14 2005 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., reported that owners of St. Rita’s Nursing Home surrendered to Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Investigators in Baton Rouge on Sept. 14. St. Rita’s Nursing Home is...
La. Attorney General Seeking Nursing Home Owners
Sep 12 2005 // Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr. announced his office has launched an investigation into the deaths of 32 nursing home residents of St. Rita’s Nursing Home in St. Bernard parish in the aftermath of Hurricane...
PIA of La. Assisting Katrina Victims with Communications, Other Needs
Sep 9 2005 // The Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) of Louisiana announced it is assisting agents, carriers and policyholders in Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. One of the biggest challenges right now is...
State Farm Processing Over 200,000 Katrina Claims
Sep 8 2005 // State Farm, the largest insurer of homes and cars in the Gulf States, is servicing more than 223,000 property claims in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The number is expected...
Louisiana’s Insurance Commissioner Urges Quick Response
Sep 8 2005 // Louisiana’s insurance commissioner urged insurance officials in states affected by Hurricane Katrina to be quick to respond to people’s needs and discussed a proposed plan to help to the storm’s...
Louisiana Proposes Insurance Company Restrictions
Sep 8 2005 // A draft order released by Louisiana’s insurance commissioner Wednesday would significantly restrict the ability of property and health insurance companies to cancel the policies of Hurricane Katrina victims in that...
UPDATE: Official Katrina Death Toll in Louisiana Nears 60; Many Homes Still to be Searched
Sep 3 2005 // In what has and will in the weeks to come be only described as a grisly job, search and rescue teams announced Sunday that 59 deaths in Louisiana have been confirmed as a result of Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Bayou...
TDI Offers Assistance to Katrina Victims
Sep 2 2005 // Many consumers from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama have relocated to Texas in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. While it is uncertain when they will be able to return to their homes, those leaving flooded areas may have...
IIAT Spearheads Aid Drive for Hurricane Katrina Victims
Sep 2 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas is spearheading a relief effort of agent donations by contributing $25,000 to assist independent agents in Louisiana, Mississippi and other states who are victims of Hurricane...
UPDATE: New Orleans Evacuations Continue; Military Moves in to Control Looting, Riots
Sep 1 2005 // In what New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin called ‘A Desperate SOS,” city, state and federal officials worked into the evening Thursday trying to evacuate refugees from the Louisiana Superdome, who are headed to...
UPDATE: Gulf Coast Health Emergency Declared; Thousands May be Dead
Aug 31 2005 // As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin told the media Wednesday that deaths in the greater New Orleans area from Hurricane Katrina could rise into the thousands, President Bush and his administration declared a public health...
Policyholders Line Up to File Claims at Miss. Agency; Fla. Associations Offer Aid, Assistance to Kartina’s Victims
Aug 31 2005 // Insurance adjusters are scrambling around South Florida, where before crossing into the Gulf of Mexico and becoming a catastrophic hurricane, Katrina slapped Dade and Broward counties with damages experts estimate from...
UPDATE: Superdome Evacuation Resumes; Authorities Add Police, Troops to Stop Looting
Aug 31 2005 // In what New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin called ‘A Desperate SOS,” city, state and federal officials worked into the evening Thursday trying to evacuate refugees from the Louisiana Superdome, who are headed to...
Katrina Category Two, Headed North Near Hattiesburg
Aug 29 2005 // At noon Monday, Hurricane Katrina’s sustained winds had decreased to 105 mph, with higher gusts and it was a Category 2 hurricane, leaving in its wake damage from Florida to Louisiana. The center of Katrina was at...
Louisiana State Police Warn Residents, Adjusters to Wait for Safe Conditions Before Venturing Out
Aug 29 2005 // As Hurricane Katrina moves out of Louisiana and into neighboring Mississippi, officials with the Louisiana State Police told Insurance Journal Monday afternoon that conditions do not warrant residents or adjusters...
