BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The governing board of Louisiana's property insurer of last resort has agreed to a $500,000 legal contract to dispute a $93 million judgment against the company for late payments after the 2005 hurricanes. The Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. board on Tuesday approved the hiring of a Washington, D.C.-based law firm and the first $150,000 payment for the work to ...
The New Orleans area has been ravaged repeatedly by hurricanes during its 200-year history
2011 marked the sixth consecutive year in which South Florida escaped major impacts from hurricanes. The only impact from a tropical system occurred on August 25 when the extreme western fringes of Hurricane Irene skirted the southeast Florida coast. Impacts were minor and mostly related to heavy surf and beach erosion. Despite the lack of direct hurricane strikes in recent years, South Florida ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The governing board of Louisiana's property insurer of last resort has agreed to a $500,000 legal contract to dispute a $93 million judgment against the company for late payments after the 2005 hurricanes. The Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. board on Tuesday approved the hiring of a Washington, D.C.-based law firm and the first $150,000 payment for the work to ...
New Orleans Protection Plan Will Rely on Wetlands to Hold Back Hurricanes
METAIRIE, La. (AP) - Fresh data shows Louisiana's insurer of last resort keeps churning away on getting private insurers to pick up policyholders, a problem largely stemming from the 2005 hurricanes. For policyholders of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the wait to go private is expensive and frustrating. There's no guarantee that some will ever get back to private coverage. At its ...
METAIRIE - Fresh data show Louisiana's insurer of last resort keeps churning away on getting private insurers to pick up policyholders, a problem largely stemming from the 2005 hurricanes.
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Fresh data shows Louisiana’s insurer of last resort keeps churning away on getting private insurers to pick up policyholders, a problem largely stemming from the 2005 hurricanes. For policyholders of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the wait to go private …
Former Miami Hurricanes guard/forward Tamara James, the school's all-time leading scorer with 2,406 career points, has been chosen as a member of the ACC Women's Basketball Legends Class of 2012. The Legends Class will be honored at the ACC Women's Basketball Tournament during halftime of the first semifinal on March 3 in Greensboro, N.C. James, who played one season in the WNBA with the ...
The state-run company was found to have failed to give clients timely service after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
2011 marked the sixth consecutive year in which South Florida escaped major impacts from hurricanes. The only impact from a tropical system occurred on August 25 when the extreme western fringes of Hurricane Irene skirted the southeast Florida coast. Impacts were minor and mostly related to heavy surf and beach erosion. Despite the lack of direct hurricane strikes in recent years, South Florida ...
Students from the UW Law School headed to New Orleans during winter break to help provide legal assistance to victims of hurricanes. Here are some of their stories, told by student volunteers.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to stall payment of a $93 million judgment against Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort, a decision that could get money within six months to policyholders who won the lawsuit against the company. The …
The Louisiana Supreme Court says it won’t reconsider a $92.7 million judgment against Louisiana’s state-backed insurer of last resort for handling claims too slowly after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will ask the U.S. …
CORAL GABLES – The Miami Hurricanes will make the NCAA Tournament. At least I think so. And so does UNC Greensboro interim coach Wes Miller, who was a reserve guard for North Carolina’s 2005 national championship teams and faced Jim Larranaga’s George Mason team before he transferred from James Madison to UNC. “I think they’ll be terrific in [...]
The 2011 hurricane season will be remembered as one of the busiest on record with 19 named storms, including seven hurricanes.
Fresh data shows the state's insurer of last resort keeps churning away on getting private insurers to pick up policyholders, a problem stemming from the 2005 hurricanes.
Cult figures often become so because they are unaware or at least unassuming about their public status. Piri Weepu seems to fit into that camp.He is a sportsman with a common touch who would be like the average bloke were it not...
The Louisiana Supreme Court says it won't reconsider a $92.7 million judgment against Louisiana's state-backed insurer of last resort for handling claims too slowly after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
