Business Insurance in Louisiana

Insurance Regulator

Louisiana Department of Insurance

The Louisiana Department of Insurance licenses producers and insurers, reviews insurance filings, and investigates complaints about insurance companies and agents. You can use its state lookup or complaint service to check a license or raise an insurance issue. ^1,2,3

• Regulator website
• License lookup
• File a complaint
• Phone: 800-259-5300

Surplus-Lines Tax and Stamping Office

Reported tax rate: 4.85% of gross premium plus a 0.175% SLIP+ transaction fee for policies effective on or after July 1, 2026 For Louisiana-home-state policies effective on or after July 1, 2026, the state charges 4.85% of gross premium plus a 0.175% SLIP+ transaction fee, which your broker may add to your bill. Louisiana's required policy disclosure says these policies are not covered by the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association; state placement and filing rules still apply. ^4,5

Coverage Guides

• General Liability Insurance in Louisiana

  Louisiana’s 51% bar applies to post-2025 causes subject to an intentional-tort exception; delictual prescription changed in 2024.

• Directors and Officers (D&O) Insurance in Louisiana

  Review Louisiana’s default charter protection and mandatory expenses for a successful director defense.

• Technology E&O Insurance in Louisiana

  Check Louisiana’s centralized technology procurement route and compare Tech E&O, cyber and contract-review terms.

• Cyber Liability Insurance in Louisiana

  Louisiana caps resident notice at 60 days and separately gives the Attorney General ten days after resident notice to receive the filing.

• Media liability in Louisiana

  Louisiana’s two-year tort-prescription change applies prospectively, while a separate special motion can pause qualifying public-issue claims.

• Louisiana employment practices: a 20-employee state threshold and written notice before suit

  Louisiana’s Chapter 3-A scope depends on workforce size, and its civil-action path includes a written pre-suit notice and a one-year period.

• Fiduciary Liability Insurance in Louisiana

  Review Louisiana retirement-program and payroll duties alongside the employer’s plan-sponsor responsibilities.

• Louisiana Hired and Non-Owned Auto Coverage

  Louisiana’s financial-responsibility statutes distinguish coverage for permissive drivers of described autos from an operator policy for non-owned vehicles.

• Professional Liability (E&O) Insurance in Louisiana

  Compare Louisiana's active real estate license and home-inspector E&O rules, including policy filing and additional liability coverage.

• Workers’ Compensation Insurance in Louisiana

  Louisiana requires coverage from one employee, but narrow household and farm exceptions turn on earnings and business use.

• Louisiana BOP: Separate Hurricane, Flood and Evacuation Questions

  Compare Louisiana package sections, then verify flood and storm interruption terms against the actual policy and your address.

• Louisiana Umbrella and Excess Liability Guide

  Separate Louisiana’s qualified medical malpractice excess system from commercial excess required for construction and other contracts.

• Louisiana Medical Malpractice Insurance Guide

  In Louisiana, verify Patient’s Compensation Fund qualification person by person and for the practice entity before counting the statutory layer.

• Representations and Warranties Insurance in Louisiana

  Check Louisiana contract claim deadlines against negotiated representation survival, policy notice dates, and any home-state surplus-lines tax.

• Kidnap and Ransom Insurance in Louisiana

  Louisiana permits K&R surplus-lines placement without admitted-market declines but requires a signed policy notice excluding state guaranty funds.

• Louisiana Crime Insurance Guide

  Separate Louisiana check-endorsement risks from funds-transfer rules when comparing employee-theft and social-engineering terms.

• Commercial Auto Insurance in Louisiana

  Louisiana distinguishes registered-vehicle liability security from higher motor-carrier limits tied to vehicle weight and listed exceptions.

• Cargo Insurance in Louisiana

  For Louisiana intrastate household moves, see the carrier cargo filing minimum, establishment requirement and separate freight-claim timing.

• Liquor liability insurance in Louisiana

  Louisiana’s adult-service limitation has a narrow, explicit insurance mandate for third-party delivery platforms.

• Key Person Insurance in Louisiana

  Learn how Louisiana insurable-interest rules, employee consent, and life guaranty limits affect a business-owned key person policy.

• Product liability in Louisiana

  Louisiana product-liability guide to the exclusive manufacturer theories and the prospective two-year tort prescription.

• Commercial Property Insurance in Louisiana

  Louisiana’s Department of Insurance explains that a separate named-storm deductible may be triggered by the policy’s own wording: the statutory term “named storm” includes any storm system named by the National Hurricane Center, while a tropical-storm-or-hurricane trigger is narrower.

• Garage Liability Insurance in Louisiana

  Louisiana sets dealer and tow-truck rules separately, including garagekeepers, on-hook limits, and a narrow small-carrier exception.

• Inland Marine Insurance in Louisiana

  Louisiana’s insurance code and regulator distinguish transported property, movable goods, bailee property and scheduled floaters from vessel liability and ocean-marine categories.

• Louisiana Public Works Contract Bonds

  Louisiana public-works contractors should distinguish the performance bond owed to the public entity from the payment bond serving labor and material claimants.

• Builders Risk in Louisiana

  For Louisiana sites, use current flood-map layers carefully and determine whether coastal-use permitting applies before land work begins.

• Louisiana Equipment Breakdown Insurance Guide

  Louisiana’s continuous-process boiler inspection rule changes January 1, 2027; map the current and upcoming inspection schedules separately from insurance terms.

• Louisiana Management Liability Insurance

  Compare Louisiana employment-law exposure and company indemnification duties with D&O and EPL policy terms.

• Product Recall Insurance in Louisiana

  See Louisiana’s food-processing recall-plan mandate and the narrow contamination condition for temporary permit controls.

• Fidelity Protection for Louisiana Condominium Associations

  Louisiana requires a bond or equivalent insurance for condominium associations that collect common expenses, with a formula, floor and member inspection rights.

• Intellectual Property Insurance in Louisiana

  Compare Louisiana rules that affect trade-secret controls, employee inventions, and public disclosures when you evaluate IP insurance.

• Louisiana looks to the policy terms when classifying insolvency claims

  Louisiana directs that an insolvency claim’s insurance kind and coverage follow the policy provisions, regardless of its label or marketing name.

• Venture Capital Asset Protection Insurance in Louisiana

  Check how Louisiana adviser rules and fund entity structure affect a venture capital manager’s insurance review.

• Louisiana policy documentation for virtual-currency businesses

  Louisiana’s virtual-currency licensing application expressly asks for certificates of insurance policies already maintained for covered activity.

• Telehealth Insurance in Louisiana

  Check Louisiana’s out-of-state provider registration, in-person controlled-substance rule, and narrow physician exception for licensed facilities.

• Employee Health Benefits in Louisiana

  Louisiana’s 2026 small-employer stop-loss rules affect self-funded plan terms, renewal protection and employer risk disclosures.

• Louisiana trucking insurance: intrastate household-goods moves

  Louisiana has a distinct rule for household-goods movers operating between points in the state: it requires both customer-property cargo insurance and other authority-related protections.

Sources

1. Louisiana Department of Insurance. Louisiana Department of Insurance; Homepage and consumer services. Accessed 2026-09-28.
2. Insurance License Lookup. Louisiana Department of Insurance; State-designated producer/company search. Accessed 2026-09-28.
3. File an Insurance Complaint. Louisiana Department of Insurance; State complaint process and contact. Accessed 2026-09-28.
4. Surplus Lines Premium Tax. Louisiana Department of Insurance; Current tax/transaction fee and July 1, 2026 transition. Accessed 2026-09-28.
5. La. R.S. 22:433. Louisiana Legislature; Required policy disclosure; no LIGA protection. Accessed 2026-09-28.
6. Licenses. At-Bay; Current producer introduction and state table; At-Bay Insurance Services LLC; P&C and surplus-lines identifiers. Accessed 2026-09-21.
7. Licenses and Carriers. Coalition; Licenses and Carriers, re-read 22 September 2026: Insurance Licenses table for Coalition Insurance Solutions, Inc., national producer number 18419475, with producer and surplus-lines numbers for all 50 states and DC including California 0L76155, Georgia 196479, Texas 2199630 and 2205589, Pennsylvania 815731 and 817452, Colorado 539028 and Wisconsin 3000108852. Insurance Carriers table naming, with NAIC numbers, Allianz Underwriters Insurance Company 36420, Arch Specialty Insurance Company 21199, Ascot Specialty Insurance Company 45055, Ascot Insurance Company 23752, Aspen Specialty Insurance Company 10717, Chaucer Insurance Company DAC, Coalition Insurance Company 29530, Fireman's Fund Indemnity Corporation 11380, Fortegra Specialty Insurance Company 16823, Lloyd's of London, MSIG Specialty Insurance USA Inc. 34886, MS Transverse Specialty Insurance Company 41807, Steadfast Insurance Company 26387, Vantage Risk Specialty Insurance Company 16275 and Zurich American Insurance Company 16535. Accessed 2026-09-22.
8. Insurance Producer Licenses. Corgi Insurance; Current complete Insurance Producer Licenses table for Corgi Insurance Services, Inc.; 50 rows covering 49 states and DC (DC 3003091619); no New Mexico row; no NPN or as-of date shown. Accessed 2026-09-28.
9. About Hiscox US Insurance. Hiscox; Hiscox Insurance Company Inc. NAIC 10200 as Chicago, IL domiciled insurer admitted or licensed in all 50 states and D.C.; Hiscox Inc. as general agent and Lloyd’s coverholder for Syndicates 33 and 3624; surplus-lines placements through licensed surplus-lines brokers; A.M. Best rating statement. Accessed 2026-09-16.
10. Licenses. ERGO NEXT Insurance; Current entity-by-state license table reopened 28 September 2026: 50 rows under Next First Insurance Agency, Inc., including Washington, DC; New York rows instead list Next Insurance Services PC-1423070 and AP Intego BR-1198885. Accessed 2026-09-28.
11. Insurance Licenses by State. TechInsurance; Current state table; identifies TechInsurance as a division of Specialty Program Group LLC d/b/a SPG Insurance Solutions; lists DC 3000041536 and labels Rhode Island “Individual licenses,” without an agency license number. Accessed 2026-09-28.
12. Licenses. Vouch; Effective 16 January 2025: Vouch Specialty Insurance Services, LLC, NPN 19926463; P&C table (50 states and DC); surplus-lines table includes Idaho 870820; footnote says Georgia and Idaho do not issue agency-level surplus-lines licenses; Idaho retained as producer-only due to conflict. Accessed 2026-09-15.