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Louisiana OMV Defends Insurance Fine Collection Letters
Nov 2 2015 // The leader of Louisiana’s Office of Motor Vehicles on Oct. 30 defended its mass mailing of 1.1 million collection letters to drivers for lapsed insurance coverage, saying the effort was aimed at clearing records and...
Federal Drought Aid Expanded in Louisiana, Mississippi
Nov 2 2015 // About 70 percent of Mississippi counties and Louisiana parishes – 57 of 82 counties and 45 of 64 parishes – are now eligible for drought disaster aid, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. The department has added...
Louisiana Auto Insurance Fine Collection Letters Hit Raw Nerves
Nov 2 2015 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has condemned a move by the state Office of Motor Vehicles that hit Louisiana citizens with 1.2 million debt collection notices related to lapsed auto insurance. The OMV in...
Donelon Re-Elected Insurance Commissioner in Louisiana
Nov 2 2015 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has won another four-year term. Donelon, a Republican from Metairie, sailed to re-election on Oct. 24, defeating three challengers without needing a runoff. His challengers...
Louisiana Supreme Court Says Grocer Not 100% Liable for Slip and Fall
Nov 2 2015 // In a decision handed down in mid-October, the Louisiana Supreme Court reversed an appeals court decision assigning 100 percent liability to a grocery store in a customer slip and fall case. Louisiana’s Third Circuit...
Louisiana Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates Set to Decline Again
Oct 26 2015 // Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon reports that Louisiana businesses are expected to see a decrease in their workers’ compensation rates in 2016. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) recently...
Donelon Re-Elected Insurance Commissioner in Louisiana
Oct 26 2015 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is returning for another four-year term. Donelon, a Republican from Metairie, sailed to re-election on Oct. 24, defeating three challengers without needing a runoff. His...
Louisiana Supreme Court: Grocer not 100% Liable for Slip, Fall
Oct 23 2015 // In a decision handed down in mid-October, the Louisiana Supreme Court reversed an appeals court decision assigning 100 percent liability to a grocery store in a customer slip and fall case. Louisiana’s Third Circuit...
Letters Warn Louisiana Drivers of Fines for Lapsed Insurance
Oct 22 2015 // The Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles has issued a mass mailing of 1.2 million letters to drivers with lapsed insurance, warning them a collections agency might be deployed if fines of up to $525 go unpaid. The Advocate...
People – South Central
Oct 19 2015 // The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers elected Bill Henry as the group’s 2016 chairman. Henry is CEO and chairman of Dallas-based MHBT, a Marsh & McLennan Agency company. Henry succeeds Steve Brockmeyer,...
Texas, Louisiana See Uptick in Fatal Occupational Injuries
Oct 19 2015 // Preliminary data show that there was a 3 percent increase in fatal occupational injuries in Texas in 2014 over the previous year, state workers’ compensation insurance regulators report. Louisiana also saw a slight...
Residents Evacuate as Wildfire Burns in Northwestern Louisiana
Oct 15 2015 // Authorities say a series of wildfires have burned more than two square miles in northwestern Louisiana and threatened homes. Louisiana State Police said in a statement that the fires started Tuesday afternoon in Bienville...
BP to Pay Louisiana $58M for Legal Fees, Oil Spill Litigation Cost
Oct 14 2015 // BP will reimburse $58.25 million to the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office for its expenses, fees and litigation costs tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The Advocate reports money...
Gas Pipeline Explosion Kills 3 Workers in Louisiana
Oct 11 2015 // A maintenance company has released the names of two of the three people killed in a pipeline explosion in Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish on Oct. 8. Danos, an oil and gas service company, says two of their contract...
OSHA: Louisiana Bag Maker Exposed Workers to Amputation Hazards
Oct 9 2015 // Federal safety officials have cited Bancroft Bags Inc. in West Monroe, La., for failing to protect workers from amputation hazards. The company has been fined $84,000. Bancroft was cited for 16 serious violations on Oct....
Report Shows 120 Louisiana Workplace Fatalities in 2014
Oct 6 2015 // A new federal report says 120 Louisiana workers died on the job last year — six more than in 2013. New Orleans City Business reports that the Bureau of Labor Statistics found the largest number of such deaths — 37 —...
Big ‘I’ Agents Install Louisiana’s Lanoix as Chairman
Oct 5 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (Big “I”) installed a new leadership team over the weekend with Randy Lanoix of Louisiana as chairman. The agents’ group also installed Spencer...
UPC Insurance to Buy Interboro for $57M
Sep 30 2015 // United Insurance Holdings Corp. (UPC Insurance) said it will pay $57 million for Interboro Insurance Co., a New York-based property/casualty insurer licensed to operate in four states and Washington, D.C. The deal involves...
Safeco Names Brown Territory Manager in Louisiana
Sep 28 2015 // Kevin Brown has joined Safeco’s Central Region Distribution team as a territory manager in Louisiana. Brown has over 14 years of experience in insurance and is experienced in workers’ compensation underwriting...
Louisiana’s Eustis Insurance & Benefits Expanding to Dallas
Sep 27 2015 // Metairie, La.-based Eustis Insurance & Benefits Inc. is opening a new branch office in Dallas on October 1. Eustis president Tommy McMahon explained his company’s expansion into Texas is part of a comprehensive...
