Oppose Direct Purchase of Insurance and Rebates to Public Entities

Please Contact the Jefferson
Parish Council - Oppose Direct Purchase of Insurance and Rebates to Public
Entities
Our Sister Assocation, the Big I has asked that
we join them in a grassroots campaign to stop legislation that would allow
purchasing without an Agent!


As per below and
attached, the Jefferson Parish Council recently passed a resolution supporting
legislation to allow all political subdivisions in the state of Louisiana to
purchase insurance directly from insurance companies without an agent, and to
authorize rebates of insurance commissions from insurance agents to public
entities. Please keep in mind that the proposed legislation is not limited
to Jefferson Parish, this legislation would affect every insurance policy with
every public entity in the state of Louisiana.



IIABL strongly
opposes this proposed legislation. If such legislation is introduced in the 2012
Session of the Louisiana Legislature, IIABL will oppose such legislation in the
strongest possible terms.



However, the first
chance we have to beat this legislation is to lobby the Jefferson Parish Council
to withdraw their support and promotion of the bill before it gets filed.



Please contact the
members of the Jefferson Parish Council and express your strong opposition to
Council Resolution 118307, Adopted January 25, 2012.



Please ask the
members of the Jefferson Parish Council to repeal this resolution and not to
support the direct purchase of insurance without an agent, or rebating of
insurance commissions from insurance agents to public entities.



Please remind the
Jefferson Parish Council that insurance agents helped Jefferson Parish pass
compromise legislation last year that allows Jefferson Parish to negotiate
reasonable compensation for insurance agents, but cutting insurance agents out
entirely is not fair.



Contact information
for the members of the Jefferson Parish Council is found below:

Christopher
L. Roberts, Councilman-at-Large, Division A,
ChrisRoberts@JeffParish.net
Deano
Bonano, Assistant (East Bank), DBonano@JeffParish.net
Brett
J. Lawson, Assistant (West Bank), BJLawson@JeffParish.net
East
Bank:
Suite 1016, Yenni / Phone: 736-6615 Fax: 731-4646
West
Bank:
Suite 6200, GGB / Phone: 364-2616 Fax: 364-3499
Elton
M. Lagasse, Councilman-at-Large, Division B,
EltonLagasse@JeffParish.net
Angela
Callais, Assistant (East Bank), ACallais@JeffParish.net
Robin
Daldegan, Assistant (West Bank), RDaldegan@JeffParish.net
East
Bank:
Suite 1018, Yenni / Phone: 736-6016 Fax: 736-6598
West
Bank:
Suite 6200, GGB / Phone: 364-2624 Fax: 364-2657
Ricky
J. Templet, Councilman, District 1,
RickyTemplet@JeffParish.net
Tony
Digerolamo, Assistant, TDigerolamo@JeffParish.net
West
Bank:
Suite 6400, GGB / Phone: 364-2607 Fax: 364-2615
Paul
D. Johnston, Councilman, District 2,
PaulJohnston@JeffParish.net
Bryan
St. Cyr, Assistant, BSTCyr@JeffParish.net
East
Bank:
Suite 1013, Yenni / Phone: 736-6607 Fax: 731-4433
West
Bank:
Suite 6300, GGB / Phone: 364-3446 Fax: 364-3417
Mark
D. Spears, Jr., Councilman, District 3,
MarkSpears@JeffParish.net
Casey
Jumpiere, Assistant, CJumpiere@JeffParish.net
East
Bank:
Suite 1011, Yenni / Phone: 736-6591 Fax: 736-6598
West
Bank:
Suite 6500, GGB / Phone: 364-2603 Fax: 364-3704
E."Ben"
Zahn, III, Councilman, District 4,
BenZahn@JeffParish.net
Jeff
Zapata, Assistant, JZapata@JeffParish.net
East
Bank:
Suite 1015, Yenni / Phone: 736-6622 Fax: 736-6639
Cynthia
Lee-Sheng, Councilwoman, District 5,
CynthiaLeeSheng@JeffParish.net
Rob
Hinyub, Jr., Assistant, RHinyub@JeffParish.net
East
Bank:
Suite 1014, Yenni / Phone: 736-6634 Fax: 736-6632
Eula
Lopez, Parish Council Clerk
West
Bank:
Phone: 364-2626 Fax: 364-2633
East
Bank Council Address
Joseph
S. Yenni Building
1221
Elmwood Park Blvd., 10th Floor
Jefferson,
LA 70123-2337
Receptionist:
736-6600
West
Bank Council Address
General
Government Building
200
Derbigny Street, 6th Floor
Gretna,
LA 70053-5850
Receptionist:
364-2600