Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Louisiana Judge: State Can’t Order Insurers to Pay Ida Evacuation Expenses
Jul 13 2022 // A Louisiana judge ruled last week that the state’s insurance commissioner’s directive ordering insurers to pay policyholders’ Hurricane Ida evacuation expenses is invalid and unenforceable. Judge Patrick...
Louisiana Identifies State’s First Known Case of Monkeypox
Jul 11 2022 // Louisiana’s first detected cases of monkeypox have been found in a state resident and a visitor from out of state, the Louisiana Department of Health reported last week. “There are likely more undiagnosed human...
Hub Acquires Louisiana’s Shaver-Robichaux Agency
Jul 8 2022 // Hub International Limited acquired the assets of Shaver-Robichaux Agency, Inc. (Shaver-Robichaux). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Thibodaux and Raceland, Louisiana, Shaver-Robichaux is an...
Louisiana Extends Ida Mediation Program Through End of 2022
Jul 6 2022 // Louisiana’s Hurricane Ida Mediation Program is being extended through December 31, 2022, Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced. The voluntary Hurricane Ida Mediation Program, which is open to...
Louisiana Launches $463M Project to Elevate Hurricane Evacuation Route
Jun 27 2022 // Louisiana state leaders have broken ground for a $463 million project that will elevate 8.3 miles of La. 1, one of the state’s hurricane evacuation routes. The groundbreaking held Friday is for work that will be done...
Settlement Made in Louisiana Workers’ Crawfish Processing Suit
Jun 27 2022 // Six migrant workers would share in a total of more than $21,000 in the proposed settlement of a lawsuit filed last year alleging that a Louisiana crawfish processing business underpaid them in violation of minimum wage...
Dredging Company Paying $1M for Restoration in Louisiana Oil Spill
Jun 24 2022 // A Houston dredging company has been ordered to pay a $1 million fine for an oil spill that occurred when a subcontractor cut through an oil pipeline during barrier island restoration work off Louisiana in 2016. Great Lakes...
Louisiana Lawmakers Seek More Time to Use Katrina Aid
Jun 22 2022 // Members of Congress from Louisiana are calling for federal officials to extend deadlines for spending Hurricane Katrina recovery funds on New Orleans road and water infrastructure projects. Sens. Bill Cassidy and John...
Louisiana Extends Policy Cancellation Date for Lighthouse Excalibur
Jun 21 2022 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has extended the policy cancellation date for failed insurer Lighthouse Excalibur to June 30 following the Louisiana Department of Insurance’s (LDI) action to secure...
Louisiana’s Native Americans Still Recovering From Hurricane Ida
Jun 17 2022 // Driving through her village along the southeastern Louisiana bayou, tribal official Cherie Matherne points out remnants of house after house _ including her own _ wrecked nine months ago when Hurricane Ida roared through...
Louisiana Woman Latest to be Sentenced in Staged Auto Accident
Jun 16 2022 // United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Ishais Price, age 41, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, before...
Louisiana Dept. of Insurance Amending 5 Regulations
Jun 14 2022 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) said in the last two weeks it intends to amend at least five regulations. The LDI seems to amend Regulation 42 to bring the regulation into alignment with current law....
Justice Department Starts Probe Into Louisiana State Police
Jun 10 2022 // The U.S. Justice Department is opening a “pattern-or-practice” investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has looked the other way in the face of beatings of mostly...
Louisiana Man Arrested For Allegedly Selling Fake Insurance Policies
Jun 9 2022 // A Louisiana man was arrested June 8 on fraud charges of selling $39,000 in fake insurance policies. The Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft (IFAT) Unit announced the arrest of 47-year-old Trampus Wagoner...
Expansion of Natural Gas Terminals Brings Another Risk to Louisiana
Jun 7 2022 // The front lawn of Lydia Larce’s home is strewn with debris: remnants of cabinets and chunks of pink shower. She lives in a FEMA trailer out back, her home in shambles after hurricanes tore through Lake...
Child Sets Section of Louisiana Walmart on Fire with Cigarette Lighter
Jun 6 2022 // A girl who appeared to be 6 to 9 years old started a fire that has closed a suburban New Orleans Walmart for repairs, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said last week. The fire Monday night destroyed two aisles...
Abandoned Louisiana Oil Wells to Receive Clean Up in Infrastructure Bill
Jun 6 2022 // About $33 million of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan recently signed into law by President Joe Biden will go toward cleaning up 277 of an estimated 15,000 abandoned oil and gas wells on federal land, the...
Louisiana Governor Saw Deadly Arrest Video Months Before Prosecutors
Jun 1 2022 // With racial tensions still simmering over the killing of George Floyd, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and his top lawyers gathered in a state police conference room in October 2020 to prepare for the fallout from a...
Louisiana Restaurant to Settle $30,000 EEOC Lawsuit
May 31 2022 // A Louisiana restaurant admitted that it violated federal law when it fired and then later refused to rehire a worker because she was pregnant as part of federal court resolution with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
NTSB: Pilot Disorientation Likely Caused Fatal 2019 Louisiana Plane crash
May 31 2022 // Pilot disorientation is listed as a probable cause of the 2019 small plane crash that killed five people in south Louisiana. The Advocate reports that the National Transportation Safety Board report on the crash said the...
