Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says property insurance reforms in Louisiana are working. Temple says since the legislature passed his package of property insurance reform bills last year, many property insurance premiums are no longer skyrocketing.
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Not only that, Temple says some insurers are starting to file rate decreases. He says since last year, his department has licensed ten new insurers.
The lease for the temporary housing facility in New Orleans’ Gentilly neighborhood that housed homeless people during the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras will be extended on a week-to-week basis. Mike Steele with GOHSEP says there are far fewer people in the transitional center today.
Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser has pardoned a crawfish today. It’s part of an unofficial kickoff to crawfish season here in Louisiana.
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The crawfish is named Pat Huval, after the late former mayor of Henderson, just east of Lafayette, and the namesake of Pat’s Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurant, where the ceremony took place. The crawfish is being given a police escort to a state park, where he will live the rest of his life, while his family will be boiled and eaten.
New Orleans native Quannas White, the current associate head coach at the University of Houston, has been named the new head coach of the U-L Lafayette men’s basketball team. The Advocate’s Kevin Foote says it’s a huge win for the Ragin’ Cajuns program.