Red Stick Insurance Agency
Independent agency

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We're independent, so we shop your coverage across our carriers instead of selling you one company's policy.

1 Where do you stand today?
2 What do you need covered?

Something else? Tell us on the next screen — we place specialty lines too.

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Manage a policy you already have with us — or add a line to it.

  • Add a vehicle, driver, or property
  • Change your limits or deductibles
  • Add another line of coverage
  • ID cards and certificates of insurance
  • Questions on a claim in progress
  • Billing and payment

Coverage changes are only in effect once we confirm them with you, so give us a call for anything urgent.

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Coverage

Personal, commercial, and life — all written in-house.

Every line, under one agency.

Here's what we write and what tends to go wrong in each. If you don't see what you need, ask — the specialty market is wide and we'd rather place it than send you somewhere else.

Auto

Personal lines

Louisiana has some of the highest auto premiums in the country. Shopping it is the easiest money most people leave on the table.

  • Liability, collision, comprehensive
  • Uninsured and underinsured motorist
  • Full coverage on financed and leased vehicles
  • Motorcycles, boats, campers, RVs
  • Classic and collector vehicles
  • SR-22 filings and high-risk placements
Bundling auto with your home policy is usually the single largest discount available to you. Ask us to quote both.

Home

Personal lines

Wind, hail, and flood drive what Louisiana homeowners pay. We write the policy around those exposures instead of pretending they aren't there.

  • Homeowners (HO-3 and HO-5)
  • Renters and condo unit-owner
  • Landlord and rental dwelling
  • Mobile and manufactured homes
  • Wind and hail deductibles, explained up front
  • Replacement cost vs. actual cash value
Buying a house? Send the address and the closing date. We'll have a binder to your lender in time.

Commercial

Business lines

From a one-truck contractor to a multi-location operation, we place what your contracts and your lender actually require.

  • General liability and commercial property
  • Commercial auto and fleet
  • Workers' compensation
  • Contractor's equipment and inland marine
  • Business owner's policies (BOP)
  • Surety, license, and performance bonds
  • Certificates issued same day
We work with contractors constantly and know what a general contractor or a municipality is going to ask for on a COI.

Life

Life and health

We start from what your family would actually owe — the mortgage, the income, the years left of school — and size the policy to that.

  • Term life (10, 20, and 30 year)
  • Whole and universal life
  • Final expense
  • Mortgage protection
  • Key person and buy-sell funding
  • No-exam options for qualifying applicants
Term coverage for a healthy adult often costs less per month than a phone bill. It's worth ten minutes on the phone.

Flood & specialty

Everything else

The coverage standard policies exclude — and in south Louisiana, the exclusions are the part that matters.

  • Flood (NFIP and private market)
  • Personal umbrella and excess liability
  • Jewelry, firearms, valuable articles
  • Event and short-term liability
  • Pet insurance
  • Vacant property and builder's risk
A homeowners policy does not cover flood. Anywhere near a flood zone, ask us to quote it — the rate often surprises people.
The process

Four steps, in order. Most of the work is ours.

  1. Send us your dec page

    One PDF or a photo of it. That single document tells us your carrier, your limits, your deductibles, and what you're paying.

  2. We shop it

    Your profile goes out to our appointed carriers and we compare what comes back — coverage against coverage, not just price against price.

  3. We walk you through it

    Line by line, in plain English: what changed, what it costs, and which one we'd put our own family on.

  4. We keep shopping it

    Every renewal, we run the market again. You don't have to remember to ask.

Independent

A captive agent works for one carrier. We don't.

A captive agent
One company's rate, take it or leave it
You re-shop it yourself when rates jump
An 800 number and a new rep each call
Coverage gaps nobody mentioned
Separate agents for home, auto, business
Wind, hail, and flood as an afterthought
Red Stick
Many carriers, quoted side by side
We re-shop it at every renewal
A named agent who has your file open
A line-by-line review before you sign
Every line under one agency
Priced for the risks Louisiana actually has
Why us

We're not a call center in another state.

Louisiana is a hard market. That's the whole job.

Carriers leaving the state, wind and hail deductibles written as a percentage of your dwelling, flood zones redrawn, premiums moving every single year. We keep up with all of it so a renewal notice is never a surprise — and when a storm comes through, it comes through for us too.

  • Appointed with many carriers, captive to none
  • Licensed producers and a licensed adjuster on staff
  • Auto, home, commercial, and life in one place
  • Your rate re-shopped before every renewal
  • Real help filing and following a claim
  • Baton Rouge based, licensed statewide
The agency

Independent, local, licensed statewide.

Somebody in the insurance business on your side.

Louisiana is one of the hardest insurance markets in the country. Premiums climb, carriers pull out of the state, and homeowners learn what their wind and hail deductible really means at the worst possible moment.

Meanwhile most people buy coverage from an agent who can only offer them one company's product. When the rate jumps, that agent has nothing to offer but sympathy.

We opened Red Stick to be the other option. Appointed with a wide panel of carriers, so when your rate moves we can actually do something about it. And because our owner is a licensed adjuster as well as a producer, we know how a claim gets evaluated, not just how a policy gets sold.

We live here. We insure our own families here. We're accountable to our neighbors for the advice we give.

The Old State Capitol, on the bluff since 1852.

We work for you, not a carrier

No home-office quota, no single product to push. If your current policy is the better deal, that's what we'll tell you.

Plain English, every time

Deductibles, exclusions, endorsements — explained so you know what you're buying. If there's a gap, we point at it before you sign, not after a claim.

We answer the phone

A named agent with your file in front of them. No call center, no starting over with someone new every time something changes.

Built for this market

Wind and hail deductibles, flood zones, carriers entering and leaving the state. We track it so a renewal notice never blindsides you.

Jonathan Davis

Owner & managing agent

Holds both a Louisiana producer and adjuster license. He also owns Gator Roofing & Restoration and serves as Secretary/Treasurer of Louisiana's largest residential roofing association. Having worked claims from the adjusting side as well as the policyholder side, he knows where coverage tends to fall short — and writes policies accordingly.

Ciera Plunkett

Account executive

Runs the day-to-day for personal lines clients: shopping renewals, adding vehicles and drivers, and walking new homeowners through what a policy actually covers before they sign it.

Our full team of licensed producers and service staff is here Monday through Friday. Call (225) 347-4185 and you'll get one of us.

Contact

We answer during business hours.

Talk to a real agent.

Questions about a policy, a claim, or a renewal? Call or email us and you'll reach a licensed agent, not a queue. If you want a price, the quote form asks the right questions and gets you an answer faster.

Already a client? Certificates, ID cards, and policy changes are usually handled while you're on the phone. Please don't report a claim or request a coverage change by email — those are only effective once we confirm them with you directly.