Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Initial Unemployment Claims Rise in Louisiana
Jan 2 2015 // The state labor department says first-time claims for unemployment insurance in Louisiana for the week ending Dec. 20 increased to 2,531 from the previous week’s total of 2,506. For the comparable week a year...
Louisiana Needs More Electricity For Industrial Boom: Utility
Dec 30 2014 // The state’s largest utility needs to come up with more power before the end of 2016, and then find even more by the end of 2019 to meet the demands of Louisiana’s ongoing industrial boom. That likely means...
3 Sentenced in Louisiana Auto Insurance Fraud Scheme
Dec 29 2014 // United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced three defendants in an insurance fraud scheme recently received prison sentences. Additionally, one of them was ordered to pay more than $190,000 for staging automobile...
Louisiana Auditor: Work Needed Still on Tracking Hurricane Aid
Dec 29 2014 // Louisiana has a long way to go to make sure that more than a billion dollars in housing aid has been used properly by the thousands of people who got federal help from the catastrophic 2005 hurricane season, according to a...
Policyholder Dividend Approved for Louisiana’s LAMMICO
Dec 23 2014 // Louisiana-based medical professional liability insurer, LAMMICO, announced that its board of directors’ Dec. 10 declaration of a dividend has been approved by the Louisiana Department of Insurance. This marks the...
Louisiana Police Department Charges Officers for Damage to Cars
Dec 23 2014 // A Baton Rouge, La., police officer, who resigned after crashing his police car into one of the LSU lakes while taking a woman on a late-night, off-duty ride, can expect a hefty bill. Police say Byron S. Boudreaux, the...
South Louisiana Property Owners not Happy with Levee Plan
Dec 18 2014 // A levee proposal by the North Lafourche Levee District in Louisiana is receiving flak from landowners who aren’t pleased with updated plans, causing the project to stall. A section of the Lockport to Larose levee...
State Designing Bypass Around Louisiana’s Bayou Corne Sinkhole
Dec 17 2014 // State highway designers have settled on a preferred route for an emergency detour of Louisiana Highway 70 around the Bayou Corne-area sinkhole in Assumption Parish and will seek the public’s input on the proposal...
Audit: Louisiana School District Missing Property Worth $7M
Dec 16 2014 // The state-managed Recovery School District can’t locate $7 million in property, things like computers and equipment, a repeated problem across the school system, according to a Louisiana legislative audit released...
Louisiana Reopens Oil Spill Affected Gulf Waters for Commercial Fishing
Dec 16 2014 // Commercial fishermen are once again harvesting Gulf seafood off the coasts of Elmer’s and Grand Terre islands, an area that’s been closed due to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. On Dec. 10, Louisiana...
UPC Insurance to Acquire Family Security Holdings
Dec 16 2014 // United Insurance Holdings Corp. (UPC Insurance) said it plans to acquire Family Security Holdings LLC for $9 million. The transaction is expected to close by Jan. 31, 2015. FSH is an insurance holding company with two...
Donelon: Louisiana Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop in 2015
Dec 15 2014 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that rates for workers’ compensation insurance will decrease in Louisiana effective May 1, 2015. Donelon recently approved a 2.4 percent decrease in...
Louisiana Citizens Insurance Policy Count Down 50% from All-Time High
Dec 15 2014 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Donelon announced that the total policy count for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens), the state’s property insurer of last resort, has dropped by 50 percent from its...
Wrongful Death Suit Filed in Louisiana over Offshore Platform Explosion
Dec 12 2014 // The wife of a man killed in a Nov. 20 explosion on a Fieldwood Energy platform has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Louisiana that claims the victim and his crew were told the piece of equipment...
Louisiana in No. 2 Spot for Low Work-Related Injuries, Illness
Dec 10 2014 // The rate of work-related injuries and illnesses among Louisiana’s private sector employers improved to its best level since the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration revised its record-keeping rules...
Louisiana Supreme Court Rejects Suit by School Workers Fired Post-Katrina
Dec 10 2014 // Louisiana’s Supreme Court has refused to reconsider its October dismissal of a lawsuit over the firing of thousands of New Orleans public school employees after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. The lawsuit could have...
Louisiana Citizens Insurance Policy Count Down 50% from All-Time High
Dec 8 2014 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that the total policy count for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens), the state’s insurer of last resort, has dropped by 50 percent from its all-time...
Deadline Looms for Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Rebate
Dec 5 2014 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance is reminding property insurance policyholders about the upcoming deadline to claim a Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (Citizens) assessment rebate on their policies. Commissioner of...
Distracted Driver Blamed For Louisiana Lake Wreck
Dec 3 2014 // Three people jumped into a Baton Rouge, La. lake after watching a vehicle get rear-ended and careen into the water. WBRZ-TV reported the St. George Fire Department said there was only one person in the vehicle, the driver,...
Louisiana Husband Dead, Wife Hospitalized After Harley Hits Deer
Dec 2 2014 // Louisiana State Police say a Leesville man was killed and his wife was seriously injured when their motorcycle collided with a deer at night. Master Trooper Daniel “Scott” Moreau says 53-year-old Gordon Bolton...
