Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Louisiana’s Eustis Insurance & Benefits Acquired by Marsh & McLennan Agency
Oct 3 2018 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, has acquired Eustis Insurance & Benefits, a Louisiana-based independent insurance agency. Terms of the acquisition were not...
Top 20 Private Passenger Auto Liability Insurers in Louisiana
Oct 1 2018 // 1.State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Market Share: 31.06% 2. Progressive Security Insurance Company Market Share: 10.19% 3. Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Company Market Share: 7.08% 4. Geico Casualty...
Louisiana Auto Insurance Rate Hikes Lower This Year
Oct 1 2018 // Louisiana’s insurance commissioner says the state’s auto insurance market may be stabilizing, with a smaller rise in premiums expected this year compared with prior years. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon...
Florence was Second Wettest Storm in U.S., Behind Harvey
Sep 27 2018 // Hurricane Florence was the nation’s second rainiest storm in 70 years, a top rainfall meteorologist calculated. Only last year’s Hurricane Harvey rained more over a 14,000 square mile (36,260 square kilometers)...
1 Hurt When Crane Falls Onto SUV on Interstate 10 in Louisiana
Sep 26 2018 // Louisiana State Police say a construction crane working to widen Interstate 10 collapsed onto an SUV, injuring the driver. Trooper Thomas Gossen says the driver’s injuries were moderate. The accident occurred before...
Donelon: Louisiana Auto Insurance Rate Hikes Lower This Year
Sep 20 2018 // Louisiana’s insurance commissioner says the state’s auto insurance market may be stabilizing, with a smaller rise in premiums expected this year compared with prior years. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon...
Limits on Doctors’ Marijuana Patients Tossed in Louisiana
Sep 19 2018 // Amid concerns about bottlenecks to access, Louisiana regulators have agreed to loosen limits on how many medical marijuana patients doctors authorized to dispense cannabis can treat. Louisiana’s State Board of...
9 Female Athletes Allege Sex Discrimination at Louisiana University
Sep 18 2018 // Complaints of sex discrimination made against the University of Louisiana at Lafayette by nine female athletes include allegations by some of the women of inappropriate behavior by the university’s president and...
Brightway Insurance Opens New Agency in Louisiana
Sep 14 2018 // Brightway Insurance has expanded its footprint in Louisiana with the opening of Brightway, The LeBlanc Agency, in Hammond. Brightway Insurance is a national property/casualty insurance retailer selling through a network of...
Louisiana Parishes to Share $41M for Flood Control Project
Sep 13 2018 // Six of Louisiana’s coastal parishes will split more than $41 million to pay for projects aimed at fortifying communities against coastal land loss and rising seas. Ten projects in Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines,...
Opelka Named Deputy Commissioner at Louisiana Insurance Department
Sep 10 2018 // Frank Opelka has been appointed deputy commissioner of the Office of Health, Life and Annuity at the Louisiana Department of Insurance. Opelka comes to the Department of Insurance from the Louisiana Department of Health...
Plea Deal Made in Louisiana State University Student’s Hazing Death
Sep 10 2018 // Two young men have pleaded no contest to misdemeanor hazing in the drinking death of a Louisiana State University fraternity pledge whose blood alcohol level was more than six times the legal limit for driving. Sean-Paul...
Tropical Storm Gordon to Become Hurricane, Strike Gulf Coast Tuesday; Flood Damage Expected
Sep 3 2018 // Tropical Storm Gordon will grow into a hurricane as it grazes offshore natural gas and oil fields, where it has already sparked evacuations, before coming ashore over the lower Mississippi Valley later on Tuesday or early...
New Task Force to Address High Auto Insurance Rates Louisiana
Sep 3 2018 // A new task force created to investigate the high cost of auto insurance in Louisiana held its first meeting on Aug. 21, the Louisiana Department of Insurance reported. The 2018 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature...
Declarations
Sep 3 2018 // Alarming Statistic “Flood insurance will not keep rising water out of your home or business, but it will help protect the investment you have in them.” — Alabama Emergency Management Director Brian...
Louisiana Sees 10-Month Increase in Not Seasonally Adjusted Nonfarm Jobs
Aug 29 2018 // Louisiana’s not seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment increased by 26,000 jobs from July 2017 to 1,980,200, marking 10 consecutive months of increases, the Louisiana Workforce Commission reported. Over the same time...
Louisiana Company to Pay $165K Resolve Disability Discrimination Suit
Aug 27 2018 // An Allemands, Louisiana-based provider of marine transportation services will pay $165,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC said...
New Task Force to Address High Auto Insurance Rates Louisiana
Aug 22 2018 // A new task force created to investigate the high cost of auto insurance in Louisiana held its first meeting on Aug. 21, the Louisiana Department of Insurance reports. The Louisiana High Auto Rates Task Force was formed by...
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, LSU Sued by Parents After Son’s Death
Aug 20 2018 // The parents of a Louisiana State University freshman who died of alcohol intoxication last year after an alleged fraternity hazing filed a federal lawsuit against the university board, the fraternity and several of the...
New Louisiana Law Allows Insurance Agencies to Employ Convicted Felons
Aug 20 2018 // A law that went into effect on Aug. 1 in Louisiana allows insurance producers to employ convicted felons if the producer obtains permission or consent in writing from the state insurance commissioner. The Louisiana...
