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Editorial: Insurance market shows some long-awaited encouraging signs
13+ hour, 33+ min ago (412+ words) It’s a rare thing these days to hear good news about insurance rates in Louisiana. So let us cautiously cheer signs that the drastic, cascading property insurance crisis of the past few years may be easing. Business writer Stephanie Riegel’s…...
Homeowners insurance has gotten a little cheaper, easier to come by. Is the crisis over?
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (1587+ words) Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple chats with attendees of a conference in Bermuda, the "world's risk capital," where the reinsurance industry plays a big role in insurance prices in Louisiana. The Food-N-Fun Casino is damaged from Hurricane Ida Monday, August 30, 2021, in…...
Louisiana wants $50 million for fortified roofs. Here’s how it could help insurance rates.
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1281+ words) Louisiana may soon get a massive influx of money for a widely touted solution to ever-rising home insurance rates: Fortified roofs. In all, the program would have enough money for 8,000 new fortified roofs this year, nearly double the number completed…...
St. Tammany watchdog Carlo Hernandez, who attended hundreds of parish meetings, dies at 79
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (712+ words) Carlo Hernandez spoke at a St. Tammany Parish Planning Meeting in November 2025. (Image courtesy of St. Tammany Parish Government) If you had walked into a St. Tammany Parish government meeting anytime in the last quarter-century, there was a good chance…...
Louisiana’s fortified roof grant program can’t keep up with demand from homeowners
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (941+ words) Nearly three years since the start of a state program to dole out grants for homeowners to get stronger roofs, the number of people seeking help is far outstripping the money available. The state’s fortified roof grant program has emerged…...
Louisiana wants to raise homes to deal with flood risk. A federal decision is complicating it.
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1331+ words) A home in St. Amant was flooded after the historic August 2016 rains. In 2017, it was later to about 10 feet in elevation. A home off La. 937 in St. Amant in 2017 was raised between 4 and 5 feet following the August 2016 floods. While this…...
Letters: The insurance crisis that no one in La. wants to face
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (261+ words) The Gulfport, Miss., home of a person seeking a visit by a State Farm insurance adjuster is seen Sept. 21, 2005, 23 days after Hurricane Katrina washed over the Gulf Coast. Louisiana is losing itself. About a football field an hour, the land…...
Louisianans with fortified roofs could soon get a bigger insurance discount. Here’s why.
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (690+ words) Louisiana will soon push home insurers to give specific discounts in exchange for homeowners getting fortified roofs, after a yearslong debate over how to deliver savings to residents who face soaring insurance premiums. Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple’s office quietly released…...
Editorial: Demand for fortified roof grants is strong. La. should expand its program.
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (459+ words) The Louisiana Legislature heads into the start of this year’s regular session next month in something of an unusual position: a half-billion-dollar budget surplus from the fiscal year that ended June 30, plus revenue forecasts that have been trending upward. Of…...
Jeff Landry asks state-created insurer to pay for fortified roofs. Here’s why.
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (897+ words) Gov. Jeff Landry is asking the state-created Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. to use its balance sheet to help pay for stronger roofs for homeowners in a bid to alleviate a homeowners insurance crisis that has proved an enduring political problem....