Eric Holl is founder and executive director of Real Reform Louisiana, the state's only consumer advocate focused on property and casualty insurance. Holl previously worked in communications and public policy for Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper.
If Louisiana is hit with another major hurricane this summer or fall, our people are going to have most of the same problems trying to get their insurance companies to pay them what they’re owed.
In 2020, the Louisiana Legislature decided drivers should be stripped of some of the legal tools they have to force insurance companies to pay legitimate claims. Legislators, powerful business lobbyists and the insurance commissioner promised the sacrifice – branded as “tort reform”—would be worth it because auto insurance rates would go down quickly and significantly, […]
