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Once Under Digital Siege, Louisiana Insurer Saves $8.8M with 4WARN
June 25, 2025 | By Lauren Lee, Client Intelligence Manager, 4WARN
The closer you look the more evidence you find of shadowy entities siphoning value from the insurance industry. Policyholders suffer the most. Fortunately, viewing this activity through a sharp digital lens helps insurers figure out what’s happening, counter it effectively, and redirect stolen value back to policyholders.
Such is the case with Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, a nonprofit insurer of last resort for homeowners in areas (e.g., flood zones) that are too risky for private insurers to cover. LCPIC has seen its litigated-claim rates quintuple in recent years.
We revealed opportunists’ secret activity
At 4WARN, we constantly monitor litigious insurance markets like Louisiana’s and in 2023 began uncovering troublesome online activity patterns around LCPIC. In the old days, insurers worried about flamboyant attorneys with flashy billboards. Now it’s underhanded search-engine manipulation tactics. LCPIC was clearly under digital siege. In the wake of Hurricane Francine, claims poured in for months on end, signaling that someone, somewhere was artificially boosting claims activity.
As we detail in the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation Case Study and LCPIC CEO Richard Newberry recounts in the video below, our detective work and defensive playbook has helped LCPIC save $8.8 million by reducing the frequency and severity of litigated claims.
We’ll have your back
Which may lead you to ask, “What is happening in our market? How are opportunists using litigation marketing tools against us? Who is hijacking our policyholders, masquerading as our brand online, and draining value from our market?"
The 4WARN Risk Score™ provides answers. It gives insurers a clear, detailed picture of how you are performing against your adversaries in similarly litigious markets. The scorecard acts as a real-time litmus test of online organizational health, updating dynamically based on toxic link volume, search trends, website domain authority rankings, and tech-enabled litigation activities.
The scorecard forms the basis of a defensive playbook like LCPIC’s to help you actively undermine, discourage, or even eliminate opportunists’ actions. We’ve seen many clients’ risk scores drop by double-digit percentages in only one or two quarters.
With 4WARN’s guidance and a playbook in effect, no longer is LCPIC simply reacting to opportunists. It’s shaping what resilience looks like in the digital age.
“As a CEO,” Mr. Newberry says, “if this isn't on your radar, it needs to be.”
Want to learn how 4WARN can help your company protect itself from tech-enabled claims litigation? Visit 4WARN.com to schedule a customized risk intelligence briefing.
About the Author
As Client Intelligence Manager, Lauren specializes in analyzing billions of data points to identify, respond to, and support some of the world's leading organizations against tech-enabled claim instigation.
Before joining 4WARN, Lauren was the Sales Operations Manager at Pivotal Analytics, a healthcare business intelligence company, where she played a key role in driving top-of-the-funnel sales activity. Earlier in her career, she served as Sales Operations Specialist at Geneia, a data science and healthcare analytics company. In this position, she drove outbound sales efforts, supporting healthcare organizations in achieving their value-based care objectives.
Lauren holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Management & Policy from the University of New Hampshire.
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