Louisiana's Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against several major insurance companies and third-party groups, alleging that they worked together to "deny, delay, and defend."

A state appeals court ruling in Louisiana finding an insurer's policy language excluding flood damage to be ambiguous and unenforceable will be appealed to the Louisiana Supreme Court, an attorney for

That finding by the Securities Valuation Office, a securities-rating arm of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Kansas City, Mo., was published in the November 2007 SVO Research Quart

The event will begin with an Executive Forum limited to insurance company property loss management personnel that will present an analysis of some of the challenges faced by those seeking to effective