Louisiana Insurance Commissioner James Donelon has asked a state court to limit the amount of information he must supply to a probe of alleged improprieties by executives of the state's insurer of last resort.

The commissioner, in a petition to the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge, La. argued that a subpoena from the state Legislative Audit Advisory Council for information on Citizens Insurance is overly broad and seeks privileged and proprietary information.

LAAC is probing whether officials of Citizens, the last resort property and auto insurer, misspent taxpayers dollars totaling $1 million. The state insurer is known as Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the Property Insurance Association of Louisiana, or PIAL, and the Louisiana Automobile Insurance Plan LAIP.

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