Naming names: A number of Baton Rouge business leaders were appointed today as officers of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry. John Finan, president and CEO of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, will serve as the chair of LABI for this year. He replaces Jay Lapeyre, president and CEO of Laitram, who becomes the immediate past chair. Art Favre, president of Performance Contractors, will serve as the board’s vice chair, and Sonia Perez, President of AT&T Louisiana will be treasurer. A number of Baton Rouge professionals are also on the LABI board and its new Emerging Leaders Council. LABI has full details.
New beginning: Baton Rouge-based LCTA Workers’ Comp has completed its conversion from a self insurers’ fund to a casualty insurance company, effective at the start of this year. LCTA will continue to exclusively write workers’ comp insurance and will continue to pay dividends to its policyholders. The conversion, however, opens up new opportunities for the 25-year-old company. “As a casualty company, we will be able to expand our geographic reach, develop more risk diversification strategies and cover more risk types,” says Troy Prevot, LCTA executive vice president, in a prepared statement. The conversion was a multistep process that took roughly one year to complete.
On air: Baton Rouge media personality Scott Innes, perhaps best known as the voice of Scooby-Doo, announced today he’s bringing back his Car-Tunes Radio Show to local airwaves after a four-year absence. Innes says he’s partnering with Pat Galloway, regional vice president and market manager of Cumulus Broadcasting of Baton Rouge, to bring the show back to Classic Hits 103.3 FM. The show will air from 3 to 7 p.m. beginning on Monday, Feb. 1. “It will be the same show I’ve done all these years,” Innes says in a press release. “I hope to reach out and touch people’s lives everyday, while trying to make difference through entertaining and making people laugh.”
