(from this week's newsletter)
Getting New Orleans back up and running has been a major challenge for everyone in the metro area. While the CBD, Quarter and Uptown have been the areas with the strongest life signs, Canal Street businesses are returning! One of these is the oldest independent insurance agency in town, Hartwig Moss Insurance Agency. A German, Hartwig Moss (the great-grandfather of the current president of the agency), started the business in 1871, on Carondelet and Union Streets downtown. They moved to Baronne Street in the 1960s, and then to their current building in Mid-City, at 2626 Canal Street.
The company evacuated in the face of Katrina, then set up temporary shop in Mandeville. They've repaired the Canal Street building, and are now back home.
Hartwig Moss Insurance represents companies such as Travelers, Zurich, Chubb, Farmers, as well as a number of others, selling both business and personal lines. Robby Moss is the current President.
