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Insurance committee recommends renewals, rejects uninsured motorist coverage; board approves committee report
Summary
An insurance committee report presented Sept. 4 recommended several insurance renewals and administrative actions, including rejecting uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage on the district automobile policy for 9/20/2025–9/20/2026; the board approved the committee’s recommendations.
The Bossier Parish School Board on Sept. 4 approved a report from its insurance committee that recommended renewing multiple coverages for one year and taking administrative steps on automobile and employee benefits coverages.
Interim committee chair Glenn Bullard reported the committee had met and recommended the board renew a one-year liability package that included general liability, employee-benefits liability, errors and omissions (including employment practices liability) and other coverages. The committee also recommended renewing auto physical-damage insurance for driver-education vehicles as required by the board’s lease with Red River Motor Company LLC.
On a separate recommendation, the committee moved to reject uninsured/underinsured motorist bodily injury and property-damage coverage from the automobile policy and to authorize Chief Financial Officer Nisha Bamberg to sign the rejection for the policy period 09/20/2025 to 09/20/2026. Committee member Eric Falsing read the motion into the record and the board approved it.
Other committee recommendations that passed included approving administrator bids for the employer group waiver program (EQIP), authorizing a dependent-audit to begin in January 2026, and approving a benefit-modification plan as presented to the committee.
Committee members present at the meeting were Glenn Bullard, Eric Falsing and Kenneth Wiggins; ex officio members President Newman and Ms. Poole also attended. Bullard read the committee’s items into the record and the board voted to adopt the committee’s recommendations; individual vote tallies were not specified on the record for each item.
Why it matters: insurance coverage choices affect the district’s liability exposure and premiums; the rejection of uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage transfers certain risk and was authorized by the board for the stated policy period. The dependent audit and benefit modifications could affect employee benefits administration and future plan costs.
Speakers and officials involved included Glenn Bullard (interim insurance committee chair), Eric Falsing (committee member), Kenneth Wiggins (committee member), President Newman (ex officio) and Ms. Poole (ex officio). The board authorized CFO Nisha Bamberg to execute the uninsured/underinsured motorist rejection on behalf of the board.
