Latest Louisiana Headlines
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One80 Acquires Louisiana’s Equity Partners Insurance Services
Oct 19 2021 // Boston-based One80 Intermediaries (One80), a national wholesale broker, program manager, third-party administrator (TPA), warranty and lender-based insurance provider, and insurance aggregator, has acquired Equity Partners...
Louisiana Implements Mediation Program for Hurricane Ida Claims
Oct 18 2021 // Louisiana has established a voluntary mediation program for the purpose of resolving property/casualty insurance claim disputes related to damage caused by Hurricane Ida, which struck Southeast Louisiana as a category 4...
As Louisiana Port Rebuilds After Hurricane Ida, Loss of Wetlands Seen as Threat
Oct 15 2021 // On Louisiana’s south coast, in a key port servicing the U.S. offshore oil industry, a huge shipyard sits idle and in tatters. Where parts of the nine-bay terminal’s roof once hung, only a tangle of twisted...
NTSB: Louisiana Boat’s Engine Room-Only Fuel Shutoff Valves Let Fire Spread
Oct 11 2021 // Fuel shutoff valves outside the engine room might have stopped a fire that destroyed a shrimp boat after an explosion off Louisiana last year, federal investigators say. Other shrimpers saw the smoke and rescued all four...
Louisiana Health System Sued Over Vaccine Mandate
Oct 8 2021 // A small number of employees of Louisiana’s largest health system are suing to block a requirement that they get the COVID-19 vaccine in order to keep their jobs. The lawsuits filed in Louisiana state district courts...
Louisiana Hospital: Judge’s Ivermectin Court Order Invites Lawsuits
Oct 6 2021 // A judge’s order to give the deworming drug ivermectin to a critically ill COVID-19 patient invites more lawsuits demanding unapproved drugs for life-threatening illnesses, a Louisiana hospital says. St. Tammany...
Louisiana Firestone Plant to Pay $4M to Settle Pollution Charges
Oct 5 2021 // A major manufacturer of synthetic rubber, Firestone Polymers LLC, has agreed to pay $4 million in fines and an environmental project and make numerous improvements to settle a long list of state and federal air pollution...
Entergy Faces $150K Fine for Violations at Louisiana Nuclear Plant
Oct 4 2021 // A federal agency is proposing a $150,000 fine against Entergy Operations Inc. for three violations at its nuclear power plant in Louisiana. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Oct. 1 announced the fine regarding...
Over 175 Bronze Vases Stolen from Louisiana Cemeteries
Oct 4 2021 // At least one person has been arrested after more than 175 bronze vases were stolen off graves in two southwest Louisiana cemeteries. More than 100 vases were stolen from Consolata Cemetery in Lake Charles and, next door,...
Study: Louisiana Auto Insurance Least Affordable in Nation
Oct 4 2021 // Louisiana has the least affordable auto insurance in the United States according to a recently published affordability index by Insurance Research Council (IRC). IRC’s affordability index measures the proportion of...
Ida Damage to Louisiana Agriculture at Least $584M
Oct 4 2021 // Hurricane Ida’s winds and floods did at least $584 million in damage to agriculture in Louisiana, experts at the LSU AgCenter estimate. More than half of that — $315.9 million — is timber damage, with...
Ida Damage Keeps Tens of Thousands of Louisiana Students Out of School
Sep 30 2021 // About 70,000 students across southeast Louisiana remain out of school because of Hurricane Ida’s destruction to classroom buildings a month ago, state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley told lawmakers on Sept....
Reports: Explosion at Louisiana Chemical Plant Injures 5
Sep 29 2021 // Five people were injured in an explosion at a Louisiana chemical plant, news outlets reported. The explosion at the Westlake petrochemical plant near Lake Charles was reported late on Sept. 27, Louisiana State Police...
Louisiana Extends Hurricane Ida Insurance-Related Emergency Rule
Sep 28 2021 // Louisiana extended the emergency rule that allows suspension of insurance related statutes in the 25 parishes affected by Hurricane Ida, the insurance department said. The Louisiana Department of Insurance reported that...
Shell Plans Mid-October Post-Hurricane Restart for Louisiana Refinery
Sep 28 2021 // Royal Dutch Shell Plc tentatively plans the first restart of a production unit at its 230,611 barrel-per-day (bpd) Norco, Louisiana, refinery for mid-October, sources familiar with plant operations said on Monday. A Shell...
AgCenter: Ida Damage to Louisiana Agriculture at Least $584M
Sep 27 2021 // Hurricane Ida’s winds and floods did at least $584 million in damage to agriculture in Louisiana, experts at the LSU AgCenter estimate. More than half of that — $315.9 million — is timber damage, with another...
NTSB: Poor Communication Led to Fatal Towboat Crash in Louisiana
Sep 27 2021 // A fatal head-on crash between barges pushed by two towboats in Louisiana was caused by inadequate communication and failure to broadcast their total sizes, the National Transportation Safety Board says. The RC Creppel...
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...
