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Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs
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Collard, Mustard or Turnip Greens 12 OZ PACK
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Reinsurers’ profits could mean relief for La. homeowners It’s not yet clear how large rate decreases could be
BY SAM KARLIN Staff writer
After years of losses, fortunes have changed in boardrooms in Bermuda and London. Reinsurers, who backstop the global insurance industry, are seeing healthy profits. An extraordinary spate of “Reinsurers wildfires, hurricanes and other have been disasters wreaked havoc on doing well the reinsurance industry for the past few several years, spurring wideyears after reaching effects that included absorbing surging insurance bills for Louisiana homeowners. Reinmassive surers charged higher prices to losses for a homeowners insurance companumber of nies, which got passed along to years.” customers. The steep increases in Louisi- BRIAN KEEFER, ana thrust the state into an inCEO of Allied surance crisis that’s hollowing Trust Insurance out hurricane-prone communiCompany ties and softening the real estate market. But recent quiet hurricane seasons and the soaring rates that reinsurers have charged have led to unusually strong profits for the reinsurance industry, according to analysts. And with capital flowing freely, the pendulum is swinging back. Insurance companies who buy protection from reinsurers are seeing huge slides in prices, which have dropped between 10% and 20%, by some estimates.
ABOVE: Cayle Carroll, 13, leads his gray Brahman heifer through the livestock barn during the Acadiana District Livestock Show on Thursday at Blackham Coliseum in Lafayette. RIGHT: Opelousas Senior High student Deaven Stevenson, 18, shears a Nigerian dwarf goat on Thursday during the Acadiana District Livestock Show. STAFF PHOTOS By LESLIE WESTBROOK
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Strawberry farmers work to protect crop from freezing temperatures weekend’s cold weather. blankets, hooks and lines to creCold weather South Louisiana is bracing for its ate a greenhouse effect during consecutive freezing week- the cold to protect the strawberry threatens fruit as second end, under an extreme cold watch blooms, a part of the plant that is growing seasons shift from Friday night through Sunday essential for fruit development
morning as another blast of arctic air sweeps through. Strawberry farmers in LivStaff writer ingston and Tangipahoa parishes Strawberry farmers in southeast prepped their farms last week and Louisiana spent Thursday pulling have kept their cold-weather covback covers off rows of plants to erage systems in place in anticipafeed them, picking any ripe fruit tion of this weekend. and then covering them right back Strawberry farmer Rhonda up again in preparation for the Landry-Poché uses a system of
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and makes strawberries in about 21-day cycles. Landry-Poché sprays the fruit with plant food and covers them again. “When it gets cold like this, that’s what we’re trying to protect,” she said. “What we’re trying to do is save these blooms because if not,
Farmer Rhonda Landry-Poché inspects the health of her strawberries on Thursday. STAFF PHOTO By JAVIER GALLEGOS
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