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Fans File Blown-Call Lawsuit Seeking Do-Over of Rams-Saints Game

Jan 24 2019 // In the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary pass, two New Orleans Saints season ticket holders asked a judge on Tuesday to order the NFL commissioner to reverse the results of the NFC championship game that sent the Los Angeles...

Louisiana’s Insurance Commissioner Draws GOP Challenger

Jan 24 2019 // Louisiana’s insurance commissioner has drawn a challenger from within his own party. Republican Tim Temple announced he will run for the office on the Oct. 12 ballot, seeking to oust GOP incumbent Jim...

BLS Survey Shows Louisiana Workplaces Among the Safest in 2017

Jan 22 2019 // According to a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) survey, Louisiana remained one of the safest states in which to work, the Louisiana Workforce Commission reported. The state’s rate of non-fatal accidents and...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Interstate Insurance Underwriters in Louisiana

Jan 18 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Shreveport, Louisiana-based Interstate Insurance Underwriters LLC, the company announced. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1963, Interstate Insurance...

Suit Targets Shell Over Oilfield Contamination in Louisiana’s Spanish Lake Basin

Jan 14 2019 // Wetland ecologist Scott Nesbit drove down a gravel oil field road in Louisiana in an all-terrain utility vehicle, zipping under a heavy forest canopy toward what he says is the source of it all. Nesbit’s target was a...

7 Face Insurance Fraud Charges in Louisiana ‘Staged Crash’ Scheme

Jan 4 2019 // Troopers assigned to the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations New Orleans Field Office Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit have arrested the last suspect in an insurance fraud scheme. A total of seven suspects have...

Louisiana Adds Jobs for 14 Straight Months

Dec 31 2018 // Over the course of 14 months, Louisiana has added tens of thousands of jobs, according to the Louisiana Workforce Commission. According to information released on Dec. 21 by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS),...

Insurance Journal South Central’s Top Stories for 2018: Medical Marijuana, Weather Woes

Dec 31 2018 // At first glance it might seem that 2018 was a “slow news” year in the South Central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. After all, the region escaped the devastation of a major hurricane, and...

Louisiana Governor: Tariffs Stifling State’s Ag, Petrochemical Industries

Dec 27 2018 // Even as he touted Louisiana’s economic picture, Gov. John Bel Edwards said on Dec. 20 that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are causing “pain” for agricultural and petrochemical industries and...

Update: Louisiana Credit Union to Pay $110K in Retaliation Lawsuit Settlement

Dec 20 2018 // A Louisiana credit union has agreed to pay a former branch manager $110,000 to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced. The EEOC filed suit against...

Louisiana Has Second Lowest Non-Fatal Work Injury Rate, Officials Say

Dec 20 2018 // Louisiana is second only to Washington, D.C., with the lowest non-fatal work-related injury rate in the country, the Louisiana Workforce Commission announced. A recent Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) report showed...

USG Insurance Services Adds Cooper in Louisiana Branch Office

Dec 20 2018 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and MGA, has hired Corey Cooper as producer/broker in its Covington, Louisiana, branch. Corey joins the USG team with 11 years of experience in the industry, most recently...

Restore Louisiana Offering Buyouts to Homeowners in Floodways

Dec 17 2018 // A Louisiana program helping people affected by the 2016 floods is offering buyouts to those living in especially hazardous areas, state officials said. Restore Louisiana officials said that homeowners in floodways can...

USG Insurance Services Adds Guidry in Covington, Louisiana

Dec 12 2018 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and MGA, has hired Dylan Guidry as producer/broker in its Covington, Louisiana, branch. Guidry brings over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry. Most recently...

Program Offering to Buy Out Louisiana Homeowners in Floodways

Dec 5 2018 // Louisiana program helping people affected by the 2016 floods is offering buyouts to those living in especially hazardous areas, state officials said. Restore Louisiana officials said that homeowners in floodways can...

Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates to Go Down in Louisiana

Dec 5 2018 // Rates for workers’ compensation insurance will decrease in Louisiana next year, the state insurance department announced. Louisiana Department of Insurance has approved a rate filing from the National Council on...

NSM Acquires Louisiana’s KBK Insurance Group

Dec 3 2018 // NSM Insurance Group has acquired the assets of Harahan, Louisiana-based program manager, KBK Insurance Group. With over 25 years of experience, KBK specializes in the towing and transportation industries. NSM Insurance...

Louisiana to Get Another $164 Million in BP Oil Spill Restoration Grants

Nov 21 2018 // Louisiana is getting $161.4 million in restoration grants from the 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill to restore two barrier islands and a headland in the Terrebonne Basin. The work will restore Timbalier and Trinity...

Louisiana Posts 13 Straight Months of Job Gains

Nov 21 2018 // Seasonally adjusted data released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics shows that seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment in Louisiana increased by 19,400 jobs to 1,989,700 since October 2017. According to the Louisiana...

3 Louisiana Parishes Designated USDA Natural Disaster Areas

Nov 19 2018 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated three Louisiana parishes as contiguous disaster areas as the result of excessive rain and flooding that occurred April 1 to June 30, 2018, according to Agriculture...