Louisiana has one of the most closely monitored property insurance markets in the country. The state’s exposure to hurricanes, flooding, and severe convective storms has made it a national case study in catastrophe risk. Against that backdrop, the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) has built a data infrastructure designed to give regulators real-time visibility into the health of the homeowners insurance market. At the center of that infrastructure is POIDRS: the Property and Outage Insurance Data Reporting System.
This guide is written for insurance professionals (i.e., compliance officers, actuaries, policy administration leaders, and technology teams) who need to understand exactly what POIDRS requires, why it matters, and how to build operations that handle it cleanly every period.
What is POIDRS?
POIDRS is the LDI’s electronic filing platform for property insurance market data. Accessible through the LDI Industry Access Portal, POIDRS is the required submission channel for a range of regulatory data calls issued to admitted property and casualty insurers writing homeowners coverage in Louisiana. The platform has been in use since at least 2010, when the LDI’s Directive 204 required all qualifying P&C entities to begin quarterly reporting through the system under LSA-RS 22:1981 et seq.
POIDRS is not a statistical bureau in the mold of TICO in Texas or ISO nationally. It is the LDI’s proprietary submission system: a regulatory data collection tool rather than an actuarial statistical plan. When the LDI issues a data call relating to homeowners insurance policies, POIDRS is where carriers go to respond.
Why POIDRS Exists: The Louisiana Market Context
Louisiana has experienced some of the most severe insurance market dislocations of any U.S. state over the past five years. A series of major hurricanes, including Laura, Delta, Ida, and Zeta, produced catastrophic losses that caused several regional carriers to fail or exit the market entirely. The state’s residual market, Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, grew significantly as admitted carriers withdrew from coastal and storm-exposed territories.
Against that backdrop, the LDI has aggressively expanded its data collection capabilities. The legislature has passed a series of statutory reforms, most recently Act No. 9 of the 2024 Regular Session, that give carriers new authority to act on policies but require corresponding data disclosure to ensure the LDI can monitor market conduct and consumer impact. The rate transparency reporting requirement signed into law by Governor Landry, which now requires all homeowners and automobile insurers to file an annual rate transparency report with the LDI by January 1 of each year, is one example of this expanded disclosure framework.
POIDRS sits at the center of this data architecture. The LDI uses POIDRS submission data to monitor policy-level trends across the homeowners market: cancellations, nonrenewals, territory-level coverage gaps, and shifts in the distribution of insured exposure. This data informs regulatory oversight, legislative analysis, and the LDI’s public market reports.
Who Must File Through POIDRS?
The filing obligation is broad. Under LDI Bulletin 2024-01 and the underlying statutory authority, all authorized property and casualty insurers, including admitted carriers and, notably, surplus lines insurers, writing homeowners insurance policies in Louisiana are required to submit data through POIDRS. This includes:
- Stock Insurance Companies
- Mutual Insurance Companies
- Reciprical Exchanges
- Surplus Lines Carriers (unlike many state reporting frameworks, POIDRS applies to surplus lines for certain data calls)
- Any authorized insurer writing direct homeowners coverage in the state
If your organization writes homeowners business in Louisiana, regardless of volume, market share, or organizational structure, POIDRS reporting almost certainly applies. Carriers who have recently entered the Louisiana market, expanded into homeowners lines, or undergone a merger or acquisition should conduct a compliance review of their POIDRS registration and filing obligations immediately.
What Data Must Be Reported?
POIDRS data call requirements vary by bulletin and reporting cycle, but the LDI’s recent filings have concentrated on three core areas:
In-Force Policy Data
The initial data call required under Bulletin 2024-01 required all insurers to submit a comprehensive report of all homeowners insurance policies that had been in place for at least three years. The required data included:
- Total policies in force as of the reporting date
- Policy-level or aggregate counts by territory and zip code
- Coverage type and policy form
- Written premium by line and territory
- Total insured values and exposure
Cancellation and Non-renewal Data
A second report required under the same bulletin (now subject to ongoing quarterly submission) captures cancellation and nonrenewal activity. Carriers must report:
- The number of policies canceled or nonrenewed during the reporting period
- The reason for each cancellation or nonrenewal (underwriting, catastrophe exposure, nonpayment, insurer exit, etc.)
- Territory-level breakdown of cancellation and nonrenewal volume
This data is directly tied to the LDI’s oversight of the state’s “three-year rule,” which limits carrier authority to cancel long-tenured homeowners policies. Act No. 9 of 2024 modified those rules, and the POIDRS data call was issued specifically to give the LDI visibility into how carriers are using their expanded cancellation authority.
Rate Transparency Reporting
Louisiana’s 2025 insurance reform package introduced a new annual requirement for all homeowners and automobile insurers to file a rate transparency report with the LDI by January 1 of each year. This report, based on the carrier’s most recently approved rate filing, gives the LDI and the public a standardized view of how carriers are pricing risk across the state. While filed separately from POIDRS data calls, it is part of the same expanded disclosure framework governing the Louisiana homeowners market.
How Often Must POIDRS Reports be Filed?
POIDRS submission frequency depends on the specific data call. The schedule established under Bulletin 2024-01 for homeowners insurance policy reporting is as follows:
| Report | Coverage Period | Deadline |
| Initial In-Force Policy Report | All HO policies in force 3+ years as of August 1, 2024 | September 30, 2024 |
| Cancellation / Nonrenewal Update | August 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024 | February 1, 2025 |
| Quarterly Update (ongoing) | Each calendar quarter | Per quarterly schedule issued by LDI |
The quarterly cadence now in place for cancellation and nonrenewal reporting means that carriers need to maintain an ongoing operational workflow, not just a one-time response to a data call. Organizations that treat POIDRS as an ad hoc event rather than a scheduled compliance production cycle are structurally exposed.
Submitting Through the Industry Access Portal
All POIDRS submissions are made through the LDI’s Industry Access Portal. Carriers must be registered in the portal and have appropriate access credentials before they can file. The POIDRS module within the portal provides the data entry interface and upload mechanism for each data call.
Importantly, the data specifications for each POIDRS submission are defined by the LDI’s individual bulletins, not by a standing statistical plan. Each bulletin specifies the fields, format requirements, and submission structure for that particular data call. Carriers should not rely on institutional knowledge from prior submissions as a proxy for current requirements. Each new bulletin must be read and operationalized on its own terms.
The Compliance Stakes
Louisiana’s statutory reporting framework gives the LDI significant enforcement authority over carriers who fail to comply with filing requirements. Under La. R.S. 22:571, the LDI may suspend or revoke a certificate of authority for failure to file required reports on time. For an admitted carrier, certificate action is an existential risk.
Beyond the formal enforcement risk, POIDRS compliance has become a visible component of the LDI’s market conduct oversight program. Louisiana is a state where the Commissioner has been publicly and legislatively active in monitoring insurer behavior, particularly around cancellations, nonrenewals, and market withdrawal. Carriers who file late, file incomplete data, or whose submissions cannot be reconciled against their financial statements create a risk profile that regulators notice.
The Act 429 requirement, now in effect as of January 1, 2026, adds a new dimension to this: insurers must now provide written notice to the LDI if they decide to cease, pause, or resume writing policies in a particular zip code or region of the state. This notice requirement, combined with POIDRS’s cancellation and nonrenewal data, gives the LDI a granular real-time picture of market access across Louisiana’s 64 parishes.
What Louisiana Insurers Should Do Now
If your organization has not fully operationalized POIDRS compliance, the following areas warrant immediate attention:
- Data architecture: Can your policy administration system produce policy counts, cancellation and nonrenewal data, territory breakdowns, and insured values on a quarterly close cycle? If your system requires manual extraction or aggregation to respond to LDI data calls, that gap needs to be addressed structurally, not with spreadsheets.
- Process design: Quarterly regulatory filings require repeatable, auditable workflows. Define ownership, build a production calendar, and establish QA checkpoints before each POIDRS submission deadline.
- Bulletin monitoring: POIDRS requirements are defined bulletin-by-bulletin. Carriers should have a workflow for monitoring LDI bulletin issuances and triaging new reporting obligations as they are issued.
- Rate transparency readiness: The new annual rate transparency report due January 1 of each year requires carriers to maintain clean, current rate filing data and produce a compliant disclosure on a fixed schedule.
- Act 429 compliance: Carriers adjusting their appetite by zip code or region must now notify the LDI in writing before doing so. Ensure your underwriting and compliance teams have a coordinated workflow for these notifications.
- LDI resources: The LDI publishes bulletins, directives, and filing guidance through its Industry Access Portal and its public website at ldi.la.gov. Review these sources regularly as the Louisiana regulatory environment has been changing quickly.
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Sources:
Louisiana Department of Insurance, Bulletin 2024-01 — Data Call Relating to Homeowners Insurance Policies
Louisiana Department of Insurance, Directive 204 — Mandatory Quarterly Reporting via POIDRS
La. R.S. 22:571 — Annual and Quarterly Reports Required
La. R.S. 22:1981 et seq. — Statutory basis for POIDRS market data reporting
Office of Governor Jeff Landry — 2025 Insurance Reform Summary
Louisiana Legislature, Act No. 9 of the 2024 Regular Session — Three-Year Rule Modifications
Louisiana Legislature, Act 429 of the 2025 Regular Session — Notice of Cease/Pause/Resume Writing by Region
AAIS Compliance Alert, June 2024 — Louisiana Issues Data Call on Homeowners Insurance Policies
