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La. Dept. of Insurance approves 63% Citizens rate increase
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:49 am
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:49 am
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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) has approved Louisiana Citizens’ request for a 63% rate increase on its residential property insurance policies beginning January 1, 2023. The rate increase will not affect Citizens’ current policyholders until they renew their policy after that date.
Citizens is the state’s insurer of last resort. Louisiana law requires Citizens’ rate for each of its policy types in each parish to be at least 10% over the highest qualifying market rate or 10% over the actuarial rate, whichever is higher.
The rate increase is almost totally a result of the increased cost of reinsurance for Citizens’ increased number of policies this hurricane season. The best way to reduce the burden of this and future Citizens rate increases is the Insure Louisiana Incentive Program, which is awaiting funding from the legislature.
“There’s no sugarcoating it — this increase is extremely painful but required by law to make sure Citizens can handle a potential future disaster for its many policyholders,” said Commissioner Jim Donelon. “My staff and I are working with the legislature to attract more insurers to the state through the use of a program that was highly effective following hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which will give Citizens policyholders, and all Louisianans, more and cheaper insurance options in the private market.”
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Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:50 am to SPEEDY
At least there are tailgates and gumbo
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:50 am to SPEEDY
pouring one out for the baws living south of I-10
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:50 am to SPEEDY
I don’t have Citizen’s but this is gonna suck come renewal time…
Everyone’s rates will spike even though we got no storm this season.
Everyone’s rates will spike even though we got no storm this season.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:51 am to SPEEDY
Between insurance and crime this state will be uninhabitable in a few years.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:51 am to SPEEDY
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:52 am to SPEEDY
Pretty despicable how reactionary the rates are going up. Could it have not waited a year or so and give the market more time to adjust and settle down?
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:52 am to OysterPoBoy
A few years?
If I could leave now, my arse would be out the door.
Family shite and my current job have me anchored for a few more years.
If I could leave now, my arse would be out the door.
Family shite and my current job have me anchored for a few more years.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:52 am to OysterPoBoy
Kind of hard to justify paying a premium to live in the 50th rated state
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:53 am to SPEEDY
I thought tort reform was going to lower insurance rates? What happened?
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:54 am to theronswanson
Auto insurance is affected by that.
This is for homeowner’s insurance, which is more affected by hurricane costs causing insurers to exit the market.
This is for homeowner’s insurance, which is more affected by hurricane costs causing insurers to exit the market.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:56 am to theronswanson
Surely you're not this obtuse.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:57 am to LSU316
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Surely you're not this obtuse.
Sadly, he is.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 8:59 am to SPEEDY
Commissioner Jim Donelon. “My staff and I are working with the legislature to attract more insurers to the state through the use of a program that was highly effective
DOI commissioners have been saying this for 30 years and it neve happens.
DOI commissioners have been saying this for 30 years and it neve happens.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 9:00 am to winkchance
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My staff and I are working with the legislature to attract more insurers to the state through the use of a program that was highly effective
DOI commissioners have been saying this for 30 years and it neve happens.
it was highly effective post Katrina. What are you talking about.
Posted on 10/11/22 at 9:01 am to SPEEDY
One would imagine that property values will go down over time to offset this increase. So, overtime it should balance out. But, either way, why shouldn't the people living there take on the risk of living there?
Posted on 10/11/22 at 9:01 am to theronswanson
Insurance companies have a lot of nuanced things wrapped up into them. On one hand, paying premiums sucks and a lot of folks like to take it out on their agents and companies but by the same token, it is a business and businesses do have duties to run profits for a host of reasons.
As I said in the Ian thread, it is not a bad thing for insurance companies to run a profit…the last thing you want is a carrier with shallow pockets. This is evidenced by some horror stories in some of these hurricane threads about carriers going belly up right when a catastrophic loss occurs. As we say in the industry, premiums are by far the most important concern with most policy holders…until disaster happens then the only thing that matters is coverage. You want the means there to handle this.
What I’m saying here isn’t the most popular thing but it’s a practical reality.
As I said in the Ian thread, it is not a bad thing for insurance companies to run a profit…the last thing you want is a carrier with shallow pockets. This is evidenced by some horror stories in some of these hurricane threads about carriers going belly up right when a catastrophic loss occurs. As we say in the industry, premiums are by far the most important concern with most policy holders…until disaster happens then the only thing that matters is coverage. You want the means there to handle this.
What I’m saying here isn’t the most popular thing but it’s a practical reality.
This post was edited on 10/11/22 at 9:02 am
Posted on 10/11/22 at 9:02 am to winkchance
DOI commissioners have typically gotten frog marched several years into their tenure.
Doug Green, Sherman Bernard, and Jim Brown say “hi”.
Donelon has managed not to get thrown in jail or voted out, so that puts him above those three and Robert Woolley, but that ain’t a very high bar.
Doug Green, Sherman Bernard, and Jim Brown say “hi”.
Donelon has managed not to get thrown in jail or voted out, so that puts him above those three and Robert Woolley, but that ain’t a very high bar.
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