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Louisiana’s Seafood Industry Struggling After Ida
Sep 24 2021 // Louisiana’s oyster farmers, crabbers, shrimpers and anglers are nothing if not adaptable, producing millions of pounds of seafood annually, often in water that was dry land a generation ago. They’ve fought off...
Lawsuit: Ida Power Outages in Louisiana Due to ‘Gum and Super Glue’ at Utility
Sep 23 2021 // A lawsuit alleges that Louisiana’s largest electric utility used a “bubble gum and super glue” approach to maintenance and construction that left customers sweltering in the dark without adequate sewage...
Louisiana Lawmaker: Residents Sleeping in Tents After Ida Damaged Housing
Sep 22 2021 // About 13,000 homes in Louisiana’s Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes were destroyed by Hurricane Ida and displaced parish residents have been sleeping in tents and “using the rubble to build their own sort of...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Files Agribusiness in Louisiana
Sep 21 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Bastrop, La.-based Files Agribusiness LLC, retail insurance agency specializing in federal crop insurance, agribusiness property/casualty and agricultural aviation coverages. Terms of...
Analysis: Ida’s Destruction May Help Louisiana’s Hurricane Laura Victims
Sep 20 2021 // Hurricane Ida’s thrashing left homes in mangled heaps across southeastern Louisiana, but in an uncomfortable twist, the storm might have been a boon to southwestern parishes still struggling to recover from last...
Insurers Ordered to Pay Louisiana Policyholders’ Ida Evacuation Expenses
Sep 20 2021 // Louisiana’s top insurance regulator on Sept. 7 directed insurance companies pay policyholders’ Hurricane Ida evacuation expenses. Directive 218, issued by Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon, requires insurers...
Louisiana Restaurant Sued for Pregnancy Discrimination
Sep 16 2021 // Federal authorities have sued a Louisiana restaurant for allegedly violating federal law against pregnancy discrimination in hiring. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit that...
Allstate: Most August 2021 Cat Losses Occurred in Louisiana
Sep 16 2021 // The Allstate Corporation estimates catastrophe losses for August 2021 at of $876 million or $692 million, after-tax. The bulk of those losses are the result of Hurricane Ida and the majority occurred in Louisiana, the...
Insurers in Louisiana Could Be Fined for Refusal to Cover Ida Evacuation Expenses
Sep 14 2021 // Insurance companies could face fines or be suspended from doing business for refusing to comply with Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon’s order to cover the temporary living expenses of policyholders who...
Tropical Storm Nicholas Drenches Texas, Louisiana
Sep 14 2021 // HOUSTON — Heavy rains lashed Texas and Louisiana on Tuesday as hurricane Nicholas weakened into a tropical storm, bringing the threat of widespread floods and power outages as it swept down the U.S. Gulf Coast. It is the...
Texas, Louisiana Governors Issue Disaster, Emergency Declarations
Sep 13 2021 // With Tropical Storm Nicholas beginning to hammer the state’s coastline, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sept. 13 issued a state disaster declaration for 17 counties, and Gov. John Bel Edwards requested a pre-landfall...
7 More Charged in Louisiana Staged Automobile Crash Schemes
Sep 13 2021 // Seven more defendants have been indicted in New Orleans for their alleged involvement in schemes to stage accidents with commercial trucks. United States Attorney Duane A. Evans said Ashley McGowan, age 35; Lertrice...
Tropical Storm Nicholas Heads for Texas, Louisiana
Sep 13 2021 // Tropical Storm Nicholas will pass near or just offshore the coasts of northeastern Mexico and south Texas this morning, and move onshore along the coast of south or central Texas late this afternoon or evening, the...
Ida Deaths Rise by 11 in New Orleans, Bringing Toll in Louisiana to 26
Sep 10 2021 // The death toll in Louisiana from Hurricane Ida rose to 26 on Sept. 8, after health officials reported 11 additional deaths in New Orleans, mostly older people who perished from the heat. The announcement was grim news amid...
Louisiana Nursing Homes Lose Licenses After Ida Deaths
Sep 9 2021 // Louisiana health officials said Sept. 8 they are revoking the licenses of nursing homes that were evacuated to a warehouse where seven residents died amid deteriorating conditions deemed too squalid to be safe after...
Louisiana Orders Insurers to Pay Hurricane Ida Evacuation Expenses
Sep 9 2021 // Louisiana’s top insurance regulator on Sept. 7 directed insurance companies pay policyholders’ Hurricane Ida evacuation expenses as damaged infrastructure and dangerous living conditions in Southeast Louisiana...
Insurers Urged to Pay Prohibited Use Coverage to Ida-Displaced Louisiana Policyholders
Sep 7 2021 // As tens of thousands of Louisianians are experiencing hardship after Hurricane Ida in the face of evacuations, physical damage to their homes and businesses, power outages, a lack of drinking water and localized gas...
Entergy Louisiana: Hurricane Ida Power Restoration Could Take Weeks
Sep 7 2021 // Full restoration of electricity to some of the hardest-hit areas of Louisiana battered to an unprecedented degree by Hurricane Ida could take until the end of the month, the head of Entergy Louisiana warned Sept. 4. At...
Insurance Industry Will Withstand Ida’s Losses in Louisiana, Neighboring States: Analysts
Sep 2 2021 // Though estimates of Hurricane Ida’s impact on the insurance industry vary, both AM Best and S&P Global Ratings say losses will be manageable for insurers and that no rating actions are expected as a result of the...
No Quick Relief in Sight for Louisiana in Ida’s Aftermath
Sep 2 2021 // Louisiana residents still reeling from flooding and damage caused by Hurricane Ida scrambled on Sept. 1 for food, gas, water and relief from the sweltering heat as thousands of line workers toiled to restore electricity...
