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• Source: Associated Press
• Date: October 24, 2006
• URL: Read the story
• Bylines: Frank Bass , Rukmini Callimachi
• Topics: Disasters
• Data Types: State Data
• Description/Excerpt: Louisiana residents living in white neighborhoods have been three times as likely as those in black neighborhoods to seek and get help from the state agency in their disputes with insurers, an Associated Press computer analysis shows. The analysis of Louisiana's insurance complaints settled in the first year after Katrina highlights a cold, hard truth exposed by the hurricane's winds and waters: People of color and modest means are often disconnected from the government institutions that can provide it, or distrustful of those in power.