Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Louisiana GOP Seeks to Divert $190M in Flood Aid to Protection Project
May 4 2017 // House Republican lawmakers are proposing to divert $190 million of Louisiana’s congressional disaster-recovery money to a flood-protection project, a move that would shrink aid earmarked for homeowners struggling to...
Louisiana’s Retailers Casualty Reports $1.7M Policyholder Dividend
May 2 2017 // Baton Rouge, La.-based Retailers Casualty Insurance Co., a workers’ comp insurer managed by Summit, has declared a $1.7 million policyholder dividend for the 2015 policy year. Retailers Casualty policies are...
Louisiana’s State Roads, Bridges Are ‘Embarrassing,’ Engineers Say
May 1 2017 // Louisiana civil engineers have graded the state’s roads and bridges, and they claimed the results were “embarrassing.” The Advocate reports that roads were given a D grade and bridges a D-plus in the...
Disappearing Coastline Is a Crisis and an Emergency, Louisiana’s Governor Says
May 1 2017 // Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on April 19 signed an emergency proclamation declaring the Louisiana Coast is in a state of crisis and emergency. The emergency proclamation sent to President Donald Trump and members of...
People – South Central
May 1 2017 // Tim Brady, shareholder and senior vice president of Texas-based Brady, Chapman, Holland and Associates Inc., has been elected to the board of directors of RiskProNet International, an association of independent insurance...
Contract for Louisiana Flood Aid Program Administrator to Cost $227M
Apr 26 2017 // Louisiana’s contract with disaster recovery firm IEM to administer a homeowner flood aid program is estimated to cost $227 million. The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report says the state has completed its deal with...
Bad: Train Clips Mirror; Worse: Louisiana Driver Opens Door, Loses It
Apr 26 2017 // After a train clipped a side mirror off a car, the driver lost his whole door when he pulled up to another intersection and opened it to tell the crew, police in southwest Louisiana said. Nobody was hurt, and 64-year-old...
Louisiana’s Governor Declares State of Emergency Over Disappearing Coastline
Apr 25 2017 // Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on April 19 signed an emergency proclamation declaring the Louisiana Coast in a state of crisis and emergency. The emergency proclamation will be sent to President Donald Trump and members...
Louisiana Law Firms Could get $87M Each For 2010 Oil Spill Litigation
Apr 18 2017 // A committee of attorneys involved in litigation arising from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has made its recommendation for dividing some $700 million in fees among 122 law firms involved in years of complex legal...
Brown & Brown’s Huval Named to Louisiana Workers’ Comp Board
Apr 17 2017 // Louisiana-based private, nonprofit, mutual workers’ compensation insurance company, LWCC, has welcomed Thomas K. “Tommy” Huval as the newest member to its board of directors. Gov. John Bel Edwards...
Managing Inland Flood Risk with Catastrophe Models
Apr 17 2017 // Flood risk is ubiquitous. In any given week, a storm with the potential to produce flooding is occurring somewhere in the United States. The transfer of flood risk from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to the...
$1.6B in Federal Aid Now Available for Louisiana Flood Recovery
Apr 12 2017 // After months of working through the federal bureaucracy, Louisiana has access to the $1.6 billion in federal aid earmarked by Congress for flood recovery. Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration says the U.S....
Louisiana Surveying Homeowners with 2016 Flood Damage
Apr 10 2017 // Homeowners with damage from last year’s devastating floods are being asked to take a survey, the first step in applying for federal disaster recovery aid that soon will be available. Gov. John Bel Edwards’...
Weather Service: 17 Twisters in Louisiana Outbreak
Apr 7 2017 // The National Weather Service has confirmed that at least 17 tornadoes struck Louisiana during a severe weather outbreak that began on Sunday, April 2 and ended the next day. A Sunday morning storm flipped a Breaux Bridge...
Texas MGA MD Jensvold Adds Louisiana Office, New Team Members
Apr 6 2017 // Texas-based full service independent managing general agency and surplus lines broker, MD Jensvold & Co. Inc., has opened a location Shreveport, Louisiana, and added three new members to its team. John Hellyer joins...
Louisiana’s Plan to Spend $1.2B in Federal Flood Aid Approved
Apr 4 2017 // Louisiana has received federal approval for its plans to spend $1.2 billion in flood recovery aid allocated by Congress, a key step before the money can flow to homeowners and others still struggling to rebuild from last...
Storms Kill 2 in Louisiana, Move East
Apr 4 2017 // Powerful storms that killed two in Louisiana took aim at Alabama and other parts of the Southeast on April 3, bringing strong winds and heavy rains to the region. A tornado flipped a mobile home on April 2 in Bruex Bridge,...
Credit Card ‘Skimming’ Devices Found at Louisiana Gas Stations
Mar 30 2017 // Fifteen credit card “skimming” devices have been found on gasoline pumps in different parts of Louisiana in the past month, state Secretary of Agriculture Mike Strain said. The devices are used by thieves to...
Fatal Allergic Reaction Leads to Suit Against Louisiana Doughnut Shop
Mar 22 2017 // A Georgia man is suing a Louisiana doughnut shop over claims that his father died of an allergic reaction after eating an apple fritter. The son’s attorneys on filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Dynasty Donuts...
Louisiana Flood Board’s Suit Against Oil Companies Still Alive
Mar 21 2017 // Attorneys for a south Louisiana flood board aren’t giving up on their attempt to make scores of oil and gas companies pay for damage to the state’s coastline. A federal judge dismissed their lawsuit in 2015 and...
