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TIME TO ASK SOME TOUGH QUESTIONS
ABOUT LOUISIANA INSURANCE
A number of Louisiana legislators are feeling increasing heat back in their districts about why Louisiana continues, year after year, to have the highest insurance rates in the nation. A small deep southern state should be way down the list of most expensive states. That’s the case across the board in states from Texas across the gulf coast and up the eastern seacoast to North Carolina. Property insurance is somewhat higher because of the proximity to the hurricane prone gulf. But no state, in the south or elsewhere across the country, continues to have such high, across the board insurance costs. So legislators, for good reason, are wondering: Why? My column this week raises questions that legislators in Louisiana should be asking in the weeks to come. You can read it now by Clicking Here.