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Louisiana Sees Gains in Not Seasonally Adjusted Employment
Jul 27 2021 // The state’s not seasonally adjusted number of employed individuals increased in June both over the month and over the year for the third consecutive month, the Louisiana Workforce Commission reported. The June 2021...
Louisiana ‘Good,’ but Texas Lags in IBHS Building Code Rankings
Jul 23 2021 // Texas has a long way to go but despite getting hit by four hurricanes and one tropical storm in 2020, Louisiana still ranks as one of the top 10 states for resilience based on its statewide building codes. The...
People Moves: IIAT Elects Officers, Directors; Pettiette Joins Louisiana’s Dwight W. Andrus Insurance
Jul 19 2021 // IIAT The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Gaylon Brown of TexCap Insurance in Dallas to serve as chair for 2021-2022 during IIAT’s annual business meeting on June 25, 2021. Gaylon Brown Brown is...
Louisiana to GeoVera: Cease Homeowners Policy Non-Renewals
Jul 19 2021 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon in early July ordered GeoVera Specialty Insurance Co. to stop non-renewing Louisiana homeowners policies in violation of state law. In a cease and desist order, Donelon told the...
Louisiana ‘Good,’ Texas ‘Poor’ in IBHS Building Code Rankings
Jul 19 2021 // Texas has a long way to go but despite getting hit by four hurricanes and one tropical storm in 2020, Louisiana still ranks as one of the top 10 states for resilience based on its statewide building codes. The Rating the...
Alera Group Acquires Louisiana’s AGM Benefit Solutions
Jul 15 2021 // Deerfield, Ill.-based insurance and wealth management firm, Alera Group, has acquired AGM Benefit Solutions, a provider of voluntary benefits, enrollment services and benefits technology headquartered in Baton Rouge,...
Louisiana Reminds Insurers of Obligations in Commercial Policy Renewals
Jul 12 2021 // Louisiana insurance regulators have issued a new advisory letter reminding authorized property/casualty insurers writing in the state about the information they must provide in writing when they issue a renewal notice to...
CITGO Agrees to Settle for 2006 Louisiana Refinery Spill
Jul 7 2021 // CITGO Petroleum Corp. has agreed to pay $19.7 million to restore natural resources damaged during a 2006 spill at its southwest Louisiana refinery that saw millions of gallons of waste oil and wastewater sent into the...
Court Won’t Revive Louisiana Suit in Death of Man Who Yelled ‘Kill Me’
Jul 6 2021 // An appeals court has refused to revive a lawsuit in the death of a man who shouted “Kill me” while endangering the life of a Louisiana sheriff’s lieutenant in 2016. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Louisiana Orders Insurer to Halt Non-Renewing Homeowners Policies after 2020 Hurricane Season
Jul 6 2021 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has ordered GeoVera Specialty Insurance Co. to stop non-renewing Louisiana homeowners policies in violation of state law. In a cease and desist order issued last week, Donelon...
New Louisiana Law Creates Rules for Self-Driving Delivery Robots
Jul 5 2021 // Louisiana has created a framework for self-driving delivery devices to drop off packages on the state’s streets, under a bill backed by lawmakers and Gov. John Bel Edwards. The new personal delivery device law...
Child Sex Abuse Victims to Have More Time to File Suit in Louisiana
Jul 5 2021 // Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed legislation removing deadlines for Louisiana’s child sex abuse victims to pursue damages in civil court, delivering a victory to survivors of abuse at the hands of Catholic...
NASA Looking at Louisiana Delta System
Jun 30 2021 // Erosion, sinking land and sea rise from climate change have killed the Louisiana woods where a 41-year-old Native American chief played as a child. Not far away in the Mississippi River delta system, middle-school students...
Louisiana Asbestos Inspector Must Repay School Board $212K
Jun 30 2021 // A Louisiana man has been sentenced to eight months of home confinement and ordered to repay more than $212,000 to a school board which hired him for asbestos inspections. U.S. District Judge Lance Africk also ordered Marc...
Guilty Plea: Mississippi Woman Embezzled $600K from 2 Louisiana Employers
Jun 30 2021 // Federal prosecutors say a Mississippi woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling a total of more than $600,000 from two Louisiana employers. Christy Bartholomew, 39, of Hattiesburg, pleaded guilty earlier this week to wire...
Louisiana Lawmakers Eyeing Hurricanes Tackle Water System Upgrades
Jun 29 2021 // Spurred by recent hurricanes and a rare winter storm that demonstrated the frailty of Louisiana’s public water supply, lawmakers have set their attention on improving the state’s troubled water...
Louisiana State Police Cling to Crash Theory in Black Man’s Fatal Arrest
Jun 29 2021 // More than a year and a half after Louisiana state troopers were captured on body camera video brutalizing Black motorist Ronald Greene during his fatal arrest, police brass are still trying to blame his death on a car...
More Guilty Pleas in Louisiana Staged Truck Accident Cases
Jun 28 2021 // Two more individuals have pleaded guilty to conspiring to stage automobile accidents in Louisiana in a scheme to defraud insurance and trucking companies, the U.S. Justice Department says. The U.S. Attorney’s Office...
Louisiana Gov.: $176M Now Available from FEMA for Laura, Delta Aid
Jun 22 2021 // Louisiana parishes recovering from two hurricanes that struck last year are now in line to get a total of more than $176 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Gov. John Bel Edwards said. Edwards discussed...
Seacor: Pay Debt With $25M in Overturned Louisiana Boat’s Insurance
Jun 21 2021 // The owner of an offshore oilfield boat that overturned off Louisiana plans to use $25 million in insurance on the vessel to pay down part of the Texas company’s debts. Attorneys for families of men killed when the...
