Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Louisiana Ramps Up Effort to Prevent Employers from Misclassifying Workers
Oct 27 2017 // Several state and federal government entities partnering on a Louisiana task force to target employers who misclassify workers plan increased activity in 2018, according to the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC). The...
Louisiana Sheriff Rejected Applicant Because of HIV, Lawsuit Says
Oct 26 2017 // A Louisiana man says a sheriff’s office withdrew a job offer after finding out he has HIV, according to a federal lawsuit filed Oct. 24. “It’s the equivalent of not hiring somebody because they had cancer...
Mumphrey Joins LWCC in Louisiana as Chief Information Officer
Oct 25 2017 // Louisiana workers’ compensation insurer, LWCC, has hired Kappie Mumphrey as its chief information officer (CIO). Mumphrey is an IT leader with over 25 years’ experience in management, including having served as...
Food Poisoning at Louisiana Fundraiser Blamed for 1 Death; More than 100 Sickened
Oct 23 2017 // Louisiana health officials say a second bacterium apparently contributed to the mass food poisoning that may have killed one person and apparently sickened more than 100 people who ate at a fundraiser. Assistant State...
Brown & Brown Acquires Louisiana Employee Benefits Firm
Oct 20 2017 // Brown & Brown of Louisiana LLC, a subsidiary of Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of Lapeyre, Staples & Robichaux, the companies announced. Lapeyre, Staples and...
After Harvey Suspension, OSHA Resumes Regular Enforcement in Texas, Louisiana
Oct 16 2017 // After suspending most enforcement actions in Texas and Louisiana following Hurricane Harvey, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on Oct. 10 resumed normal enforcement...
Louisiana Oil Platform Explodes; Search Continues for Missing Worker
Oct 16 2017 // The search continued for a worker missing from an oil production platform in Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain that exploded and caught fire late Sunday, sending six others to hospital with injuries, the U.S. Coast...
Louisiana Governor Unhappy State Was Left Out of Disaster Tax Relief Program
Oct 16 2017 // Gov. John Bel Edwards’ is disappointed that Louisiana has been left out of a federal program providing disaster tax relief to victims of this year’s hurricanes. Edwards said he can’t “wrap my head...
Butler Named Chief of Staff at Louisiana Insurance Department
Oct 13 2017 // Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has appointed Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Butler as chief of staff of the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI). Butler will oversee the agency budget, personnel and day-to-day...
LCTA Workers’ Comp’s Prevot to Serve on Louisiana’s Opioid Prevention Advisory Council
Oct 11 2017 // Troy Prevot, executive vice president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based LCTA Workers’ Comp, has been appointed to serve on the state’s Advisory Council on Heroin and Opioid Prevention and Education, the insurer...
Sunday Update: Weakened Tropical Storm Nate Brings Rain, Tornado Warnings to South
Oct 7 2017 // Hurricane Nate weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday after coming ashore in Mississippi, flooding roads and buildings but sparing the state from catastrophic damages. Maximum sustained winds from Nate, the fourth...
Left Out of Disaster Tax Relief Program, Louisiana Offers Bigger Flood Aid Loans for Small Businesses
Oct 6 2017 // Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration is boosting the size of loans available to small businesses damaged by last year’s flooding in Louisiana and is extending the deadline for applications. The Restore...
Louisiana Cities Experienced Economic Ups and Downs in 2016
Sep 27 2017 // Louisiana’s eight metropolitan areas included two of the nation’s fastest growing economies and two of its fastest shrinking ones in 2016. Lake Charles’ economy grew 8.1 percent, the fastest in the nation...
How Home Values Track with High, Low Risk of Natural Hazards: ATTOM Data
Sep 22 2017 // Americans are still buying homes in areas with high risk of natural hazards and the homes in those cities continue to appreciate in value far faster than homes in low natural hazard locales. However, the effect on home...
FEMA Not Relying on Trailers to House Hurricane Victims
Sep 20 2017 // The hurricanes that battered Texas and Florida have likely spawned the worst disaster-created housing crisis since Hurricane Katrina left hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents without homes more than a decade...
Hub International Acquires Louisiana’s Benefit Advisory Group
Sep 18 2017 // Chicago-based insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub), has acquired the assets of Benefit Advisory Group LLC (Benefits Advisory Group), with offices in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La. Terms of the acquisition...
Hurricane Harvey-Caused Oil, Chemical Spills Dwarfed by Katrina’s
Sep 18 2017 // More than 22,000 barrels of oil, refined fuels and chemicals spilled at sites across Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, along with millions of cubic feet of natural gas and hundreds of tons of other toxic substances, a...
Louisiana’s LCTA Acquires Risk Management Resources, Creates Specialty Insurer
Sep 11 2017 // Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based workers’ compensation insurance provider, LCTA Workers’ Comp (LCTA), has acquired Risk Management Resources and created a new subsidiary, LCTA Specialty Insurance Co. Risk...
New Texas Task Force Formed to Investigate Hurricane-Related Fraud
Sep 8 2017 // Federal prosecutors will lead a new Houston-based group created to help law enforcement agencies respond to an inevitable wave of fraud and other criminal activity set off by Harvey’s punishing rains. Authorities are...
Why the Number of Coastal Homeowners with Flood Insurance Has Been Shrinking
Sep 7 2017 // Amanda Spartz nearly did not renew her home’s flood insurance policy after her first year in Florida. Two hurricanes came close to the Fort Lauderdale suburbs last year, but they didn’t hit and her home...
