Collection:LPB

Genre: Newsmagazine

Place Covered: Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 1991-12-06

Duration: 00:05:35

Subjects: Louisiana. Insurance Department | Insurance Industry | Brown, James H. (James Harvey), 1945-

Contributors:

• Collins, Robert Host
• Nachman, Karen Reporter
• Brown, Jim Interviewee
• Cobb, Darrell Interviewee
• Czernik, David Interviewee

This segment from the December 6, 1991, episode of the series “Louisiana: The State We’re In” features Karen Nachman’s profile of new Commissioner of Insurance Jim Brown and his plans to reform the Louisiana Department of Insurance. Nachman reports that Brown was sworn in a month early to start tackling the problems facing the department and the insurance industry in Louisiana. She interviews: Commissioner Jim Brown; Darrell Cobb, the outgoing interim commissioner; and David Czernik of the Louisiana Consumers League. Host: Robert Collins