“Do Battle with Insurance”: Post-Hurricane Insurance Litigation in Southwest Louisiana

Calcasieu Parish Study Area with Counts of Litigation and Hurricanes Laura and Delta Tracks

Source: Authors’ calculations based on recorded litigation from LAWD and JDC14 case dockets. Hurricane tracks are from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Historical Hurricane Tracks database.

Note: The inset map in the upper right shows the study area as located within Louisiana and surrounding states. Each symbolized hexbin is an area of approximately 1.2 square kilometers. Any location without a hexbin within Calcasieu Parish indicates no record of insurance litigation. The optimal way to view this map is in color. We refer readers of the print edition of this article to https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/12/4/178 to view the color version.