Louisiana Voice

Well, the P.O.S. in the Oval Office can no longer claim that he thought he was being portrayed as a doctor healing Americans in the last image he posted of himself in the Jesus robe a couple of week back. So, why is he repeating the image in his latest post elow as him (still dressed in that same pseudo-Jesus robe) helping Lady Liberty deliver a baby bearing his likeness? My God, this is beyond bad taste. This is depravity, indicative of serious mental illness. So, why don’t we just call it TDS? It is, after all, Trump and there’s no question it’s deranged–pegging the humor meter at about the 6th grade level.

(Posted on Truth Social)

As we move into the 2026 hurricane season along the Gulf (of Mexico) coast, it seems a good time to see how California, as opposed to Louisiana’s politicians, actually stand up to insurance companies who fail in their promise to be a good neighbor.

LouisianaVoice has, on multiple occasions, attempted to alert readers as to how insurance companies deliberately SABOTAGED POLICYHOLDERS on hurricane damage claims as part of their corporate strategy to “ DELAY, DENY, DEFEND.”

Of course, that strategy of shortchanging policyholders didn’t just apply to hurricanes. It was also employed to the practice of [dis]honoring claims on VEHICLE REPAIRS.

And what did Louisiana do about all that? Well, last December, Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple did APPROVE a 5.9 percent decrease on State Farm personal auto insurance policies while at the same time approving a 9.7 percent increase for the company’s homeowner rates.

As a refresher, in case you need it, we have this report of what happened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:

Less than a week following the devastation of Katrina, Nationwide, on September 4, 2005, instructed its claims adjusters that “if loss is caused by both flood and wind, there is no coverage,” according to Mississippi Gulf Coast U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor.

Nine days later, on September 13, Taylor said State Farm instructed its adjusters that “where wind acts concurrently with flooding to cause damage to the insured property, coverage for the loss exists only under flood coverage.”

On-site damage assessment by engineer Jerome Quintero of Rimkus Consulting Group, contracted by Allstate to handle claims, said there was “insufficient physical evidence to determine the proportion of wind versus storm surge that destroyed (a) structure.”

Less than a week following the devastation of Katrina, Nationwide, on September 4, 2005, instructed its claims adjusters that “if loss is caused by both flood and wind, there is no coverage,” according to Mississippi Gulf Coast U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor.

Nine days later, on September 13, Taylor said State Farm instructed its adjusters that “where wind acts concurrently with flooding to cause damage to the insured property, coverage for the loss exists only under flood coverage.”

On-site damage assessment by engineer Jerome Quintero of Rimkus Consulting Group, contracted by Allstate to handle claims, said there was “insufficient physical evidence to determine the proportion of wind versus storm surge that destroyed (a) structure.”

That was in June 2006. But on November 4, Quintero’s conclusion of “insufficient physical evidence” was altered to read “Storm surge and waves destroyed the residence” by Rimkus staff who never visited the site. Quintero’s name was signed to the revised report without his knowledge, Taylor said.

So, in just those three examples, we have Nationwide, State Farm and Allstate implicitly telling their adjusters to blame Hurricane Katrina’s damage on water alone, thereby passing an inflated $23 billion bill on to American taxpayers.

Things were no better for the folks in Southwest Louisiana following Hurricanes Laura and Delta in 2020 and 2021. Five and six years after the fact, homeowners are still fighting with their insurance companies—and even with the LOUISIANA INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION created in 1970 as a safety net for policyholders left high and dry, so to speak.

Fast forward to those devastating wildfires in California last year and we learn that Louisianans weren’t the only victims of mishandled claims. In about half of the 220 sample claims reviewed, regulators in that state found 398 violations.

State Farm handled about a third of the 11,300 residential claims filed as a result of the fires destroying more than 18,000 structures and killing 31 people.

Because of that, California regulators are actually considering SUSPENDING STATE FARM’S LICENSE to do business in that state.

So, by comparison, California is attempting to bar State Farm from doing business there because of claims mishandling while Louisiana approves a hefty homeowners rate increase.

To paraphrase what someone once said, the more things change in Louisiana, the more they stay the same.

I’m not certain if you noticed, but the two stories below about New Bethany and district attorney candidate are especially timely in that I have just published a new book entitled The Dinosaur Club. It’s a historical novel about 15 or so retired newspapers reporters, all in their late 70s and early 80s who meet once a month for lunch and who call themselves The Dinosaurs.

In my book, one of the dinosaurs stumbles upon a child sex-trafficking ring and recruits half-a-dozen of his fellow retirees to investigate the operation as one last major writing assignment. So they hitch up their Depends, stick in their hearing aids and apply the Fixodent and Polident, stock up on Metamusil and Ensure, grab their canes and walkers and set out on their quest.

Their exploits are fiction, but the book is full of statistics, facts and stories about child sex trafficking by churches, preachers, cops, judges, politicians and celebrities. No trafficker is spared and real names are used (except for The Dinosaurs, whom I’ve given fictional names; like I said, their part in the book is fiction).

The story of New Bethany is the inspiration for the book and everything I’ve written about that hellhole in Bienville Parish is all too real and the girls who survived the place are real people with real stories.

The book cover even features a photograph of the New Bethany compound. The little girl in the picture is AI, but the buildings behind her are real, including the fence.

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