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Presents a table on life insurance companies ranked by life premiums in force as of December 2002 in Louisiana.

The article focuses on the frustrations over the slow insurance payments for Hurricane Katrina victims in Louisiana. Bill Bailey, director of Hurricane Insurance Information Center, has estimated between 80 and 90 percent of claims made to date have been settled for policyholders who have been located. According to Bailey, the four distinct reasons why some people have not been paid whole by insurance agencies are inexperienced adjusters, sheer volume, bracket creep, and slow payout by banks co-holding claims rights.