BATON ROUGE, La. (Oct. 3, 2006)--Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation (LWCC) announced that Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco has appointed James N. "Jim" Hall of Baton Rouge to its board of directors.

Hall has served as president of Petrin Corporation, an industrial insulation contractor in Port Allen, La., since 1996. He will serve as a member representative of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) on LWCC's board of directors. His appointment took effect September 1.

Petrin Corporation, founded in 1972, is a full-service insulation company providing labor and fabricated products and is a full-line distributor of insulation products. Petrin Corporation also provides coating and fireproofing services as well as scaffolding rental and erection services through affiliated companies.

Hall received a master's degree in finance from Louisiana State University in 1986 and a bachelor's degree in finance from Louisiana Tech University in 1982.

A past chairman of Volunteer Baton Rouge, Hall currently serves on its board of directors and is a past board member of the Louisiana Art and Science Museum as well as Family Services of Greater Baton Rouge.

LWCC (www.lwcc.com) is a private, nonprofit mutual insurance company. It is the largest writer of workers' compensation insurance in Louisiana, covering about 23,000 policyholders statewide. The company carries an "A" (Excellent) rating from A.M. Best Company and, for the fifth year in a row, was named in 2006 as one of the top 50 property-casualty insurers in the nation by Ward Group, the leading authority on insurance industry benchmarking.