With her plea of guilty to mail fraud conspiracy, Ishais Price, 41, has become the 32nd defendant to admit criminal responsibility in a scheme to stage 77 vehicle accidents with big trucks and buses in New Orleans, claim injuries, hire crooked lawyers and collect fat settlement checks from insurance companies.
Louisiana’s governor declared a state of emergency on Wednesday after tornadoes sliced through the New Orleans area Tuesday night, lifting homes off their foundations, leaving thousands without power and killing at least one person.
The first ever Hurricane Laura case heard by a federal court has ended in a decision against an insurance company and in favor of Joey Odem, the plaintiff who is the owner of a commercial property near Lake Charles’ Petro Point.
Major cities across the US have seen an ‘unprecedented’ surge in auto thefts and carjackings in recent years, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) has warned.<br /><br />Testifying before a US Senate Committee on the issue of car thefts, NICB president and CEO David Glawe spoke not only of the rise in auto theft cases, but also discussed the apparent connection between car stealing and other serious violent crimes.
Researchers have used artificial intelligence to predict where flood damage is likely to happen in the continental United States. The findings suggest that recent flood maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency do not capture the full extent of flood risk.
Another insolvent insurer in Louisiana has been placed into receivership, as the company continues to grapple with massive pending hurricane claims. Louisiana insurance commissioner Jim Donelon placed Americas Insurance Company (AIC) into receivership in the 19th Judicial District Court.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans became the eighth federal appeals court Wednesday to rule that a policyholder was not entitled to COVID-19 business interruption coverage, in a lawsuit filed by two barbeque restaurants.
It’s been four-and-a-half months since Hurricane Ida hit, and there are still families waiting on insurance payments to fix their homes. And now, more and more victims are turning to the state insurance department for help, or asking an attorney to speed up the process.
Pittsburgh is more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from the nearest coast, yet its office and retail buildings face $420 million in exposure to flood damage, or the third-greatest of any city in the U.S., according to a report published Monday.
In its recently released annual report, the ATRA identified 8 jurisdictions on its 2021 hellholes list – which, in order, include: (1) California (with the plaintiffs’ bar taking advantage of unique California laws like the Private Attorney General Act); (2) New York City (particularly regarding Americans With Disabilities Act accessibility claims and an activist attorney general battling climate change with energy companies), (3) Georgia....
Insurance companies in Louisiana will be assessed $100 million – and likely more in the future – to pay the claims of two failed property insurers who went belly up in Hurricane Ida’s aftermath.
Peggy Honore paid her insurance premiums on-time, every month for more than a decade, but in the months after Hurricane Ida tore the roof off her Destrehan home, she’s struggled to get her insurer to call her back, answer her questions or respond to her claims.
The Louisiana Department of Insurance said that the board of directors of the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens) has voted to increase the amount of commercial property insurance coverage available to businesses to ensure they can acquire sufficient coverage through Citizens if they are not able to secure coverage in the private market.
Thousands of Louisianans seeking federally provided travel-trailers may have to wait months longer, FEMA’s top official said Monday. The Federal Emergency Management Administration has identified about 3,000 people who will qualify to get the trailers, Administrator Deanne Criswell said.
Beginning Monday, insurers can resume the process of canceling or non-renewing coverage for policyholders in southeast Louisiana after the state’s top insurance regulator opted not to extend emergency protections issued ahead of Hurricane Ida.
