Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Louisiana Citizens Seeking Increased Credit for Storm Season
Jul 22 2013 // As the peak of hurricane season approaches, the governing board for Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort agreed to boost its bank line of credit, to give the company enough money to cover costs in case of a...
Louisiana Clarifies Insured Loss Estimate from Hurricane Katrina
Jul 18 2013 // A recent report by financial website Kiplinger rated Louisiana as the most disaster prone state in the nation. News reports on this story have cited loss estimates of $3 billion for Hurricane Katrina and $2 billion for...
Official Claims Louisiana Sinkhole Depth Exceeds Estimates
Jul 16 2013 // An official says the deepest part of the 22-acre sinkhole near Bayou Corne, La., is at least 500 feet deep, and not between 110 to 220 feet deep that has been estimated by Texas Brine. John Boudreaux, director of the...
BP Gulf Oil Victims Challenge Economic Damages Claim Settlements
Jul 16 2013 // BP Plc’s $8.2 billion settlement of most private economic-damage claims from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is unfair and should be rejected, victims opposed to the deal told a federal appeals court. The agreement...
Cameron, Louisiana Adds Firefighters; Expects Lower Insurance Premiums
Jul 15 2013 // Cameron Parish Fire District 10 in Louisiana has hired six firefighters and officials say that will improve response to fire calls in Johnson Bayou and Holly Beach and lower fire insurance premiums. District secretary...
Insurance Committee Chairman Named CEO of Louisiana Health Cooperative
Jul 12 2013 // Louisiana Health Cooperative Inc. has a new chief executive. The company this week named state Rep. Greg Cromer, a Republican representing the Slidell area, to the post. Cromer says LAHC is a nonprofit that offers...
Louisiana Woman Faces Murder Charge in Arson-for-Insurance Scheme
Jul 12 2013 // A woman accused of igniting a deadly bakery fire in Gretna, La., last month is facing murder charges after authorities said she torched her business in a scheme to collect insurance proceeds. Authorities say Lesly...
Louisiana Officials Want to Speed up Disposal of Blighted Property
Jul 11 2013 // With thousands of properties caught in a three-year legal holding pattern, Baton Rouge, La., and other officials across the state want the New Orleans treatment on dealing with blight. New Orleans already secured a state...
Well Leaks Natural Gas in Gulf Off Louisiana Coast
Jul 11 2013 // Natural gas began leaking on July 8 from an old, non-producing well at an oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico about 75 miles off the Louisiana coast after a crew working to plug the well lost control of it, the...
Coastal Lawmakers Seek Delays in Flood Insurance Changes, Rate Hikes
Jul 8 2013 // Just a year after Congress imposed significant changes in the government’s oft-criticized flood insurance program, howls of protest from homeowners facing higher premiums have coastal lawmakers pressing for delays...
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. Promotes Horton, Tucker
Jul 8 2013 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) announced two new promotions: Jody Horton is now the special risk business unit manager, and David Tucker is the agency relations manager. Horton most recently served as...
Louisiana Plant Hit with New DEQ Compliance Orders After Explosion, Fire
Jul 8 2013 // The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has issued two new compliance orders against Williams Olefins over air and potential water releases stemming from a June 13 fire and explosion at its Ascension Parish...
Sites of 2 Deadly Louisiana Plant Explosions Still Closed
Jul 3 2013 // Plants that were the sites of two chemical explosions a day apart in south Louisiana remain closed, and it could be months before federal investigators determine the causes of the blasts that killed three workers and sent...
New CEO Named for Louisiana’s Insurer of Last Resort
Jul 1 2013 // The state’s insurance commissioner has named a new chief executive to run Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state-run insurer of last resort. Commissioner Jim Donelon said he has named David Thomas to...
Deadline for Louisiana Sinkhole Buyout Talks Extended
Jun 28 2013 // Nearly half of the eligible residents and families directly affected by a Bayou Corne, La,-area sinkhole induced by a Texas Brine Co. salt dome failure last summer have agreed to company buyouts, while the rest have more...
Report: Louisiana Plant Explosion Released Toxic Chemicals
Jun 28 2013 // The deadly June 13 explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins chemical plant in Geismar, La., released more than 62,000 pounds of toxic chemicals during the accident that killed two workers and injured 114 others,...
Louisiana Plant Owner Says Insurance Will Cover Loss from Explosion
Jun 27 2013 // Williams Cos., the owner of a Louisiana chemical plant that remains shut after a fatal explosion, said insurance will cover most of the loss. An explosion June 13 at Williams Partners LP’s Geismar plant killed two...
State Senator Gives Up on Louisiana Citizens Insurance CEO Job
Jun 27 2013 // State Sen. Dan “Blade”Morrish has dropped his bid to become the next CEO of the state-run insurer of last resort, the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. The Louisiana Board of Ethics had advised that...
Investigators to Examine Heat Exchanger at Louisiana Blast Site
Jun 26 2013 // State and federal officials investigating the cause of the deadly blast on June 13 at the Williams Companies Inc. plant near Gonzales, La., plan to inspect a key element of the facility that one federal investigator said...
Some Louisiana Residents Take Buyouts from Salt Dome Owner
Jun 25 2013 // A third of a group of residents evacuated because of an Assumption Parish sinkhole have accepted buyout offers from Texas Brine Co. Company spokesman Sonny Cranch says that as of noon on June 23, 33 of 91 people had taken...
