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Book-Ended By Crises, Donelon Persevered In Challenging Louisiana

It was February 2006, a few short months since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated Louisiana and tore apart its property insurance market, and Insurance Commissioner J. Robert Wooley was . . .

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