Coronavirus fears closed a Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles location near New Orleans the same morning that it reopened after a two-month pandemic closure. The office in Harvey was notified that someone in the building might have been in contact …
Experts studying demographics and data following south Louisiana’s great flood of 2016 tell a newspaper they don’t expect a mass exodus of people from the area, such as the one that followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Allison Plyer, executive director …
Louisiana drivers struggling to pay unpaid fines from lapsed car insurance coverage can now find some relief. Gov. John Bel Edwards’ office announced the governor has signed a bill to authorize driver payment plans to repay the state Office of …
A Baton Rouge lawmaker’s bid to create payment plans for people struggling to pay unpaid fines from lapsed car insurance coverage is headed to the governor’s desk. With a 94-0 vote, the House gave final passage to House Bill 245 …
State lawmakers hope to offer relief to thousands of Louisiana drivers who collectively owe millions of dollars to the Office of Motor Vehicles in unpaid fines from lapsed insurance coverage. It’s not clear yet what form that relief might take, …
Louisiana has implemented new ways of collecting fines from people the state believes are driving without insurance. The Advocate reports the recently formed Office of Debt Recovery has the authority to extract money from bank accounts, intercept tax refunds and …
Another round of 700,000 collection letters have gone out to Louisiana drivers, notifying them they have 30 days to pay fines for lapsed insurance coverage before their cases get turned over to a state collection agency. In an update on …
The Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles has cleared more than 41,000 cases of drivers flagged for having lapsed insurance coverage, collecting about $6 million in fines. That’s the latest data released by Col. Mike Edmonson, the state police superintendent who …
The Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles has issued a mass mailing of 1.2 million letters to drivers with lapsed insurance, warning them a collections agency might be deployed if fines of up to $525 go unpaid. The Advocate reports the …
Louisiana driver’s licenses still don’t comply with federal law, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has granted the state a temporary break. That means travelers won’t need passports to fly within the United States, the American Press reports. The …
