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2 Small Players Settle in Louisiana ‘Big Oil’ Coastal Flooding Suit
Nov 3 2014 // Two of the smaller players in a New Orleans area flood board’s lawsuit against the oil industry over damage to the state’s coast have agreed to a settlement. An attorney for the Southeast Louisiana Flood...
LWCC Chairman Emeritus Aubrey T. Temple, Jr.
Nov 3 2014 // On Oct. 21, 2014, the Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) announced the passing of founding board member Aubrey T. Temple, Jr. He was 68 years old. Temple served as the founding chairman of the board...
LSU Flagship Campus Cleared to Buy Its Own Insurance
Nov 3 2014 // Lawmakers have given Louisiana State University (LSU) the authority to leave the state-run insurance program and buy its own coverage in a first-of-its-kind arrangement for a Louisiana public college. University System...
Louisiana’s Direct Action Statute’s Effect on Claims-Made Policy Notice Provisions
Oct 31 2014 // Typical claims-made insurance policies require claims to be both made and reported within the applicable policy period. Under this type of policy, the risk of a claim incurred but not made, as well as a claim made but not...
Corps Sued over Cost of Louisiana Wetland Restoration
Oct 30 2014 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should bear the full $2.9 billion cost of restoring wetland damage blamed on poor maintenance of the now-closed Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, Louisiana coastal restoration officials say in...
Judge Slashes $9 Billion Damages Award Against Drugmakers by 99%
Oct 28 2014 // Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Eli Lilly & Co. won a more than a 99 percent cut in a $9 billion punitive damages award over claims the drugmakers hid the cancer risks of their Actos diabetes medicine. Jurors properly...
Louisiana Parish Still Working on Tornado Damage Estimate
Oct 27 2014 // The tornadoes that hit Louisiana’s Ouachita Parish on Oct. 13 did millions of dollars in damage, but officials don’t know whether it will be enough to qualify the parish for help from the Federal Emergency...
Road Damage from Oil Field Trucks Concerns Louisiana Parish
Oct 27 2014 // Complaints about trucks tearing up parish roads have prompted the St. Landry Parish Council in Louisiana to re-examine how road-use permits are issued and how the parish can force those causing the damage to pay for...
Court: U. of Louisiana System Did not Breach Contract in Firing Coach
Oct 21 2014 // The state’s high court has ruled that the University of Louisiana System and its Lafayette campus did not breach a former head football coach’s contract when he was fired. The state Supreme Court ruling...
Officials: Caddo Lake Not Threatened by Louisiana Oil Spill
Oct 21 2014 // Cleanup crews continue to mop up a 4,000-barrell oil spill into a four-mile stretch of Tete Bayou northwest of Shreveport, La. Officials said that the oil has been contained without reaching Caddo Lake, which straddles the...
LSU Flagship Campus Authorized to Buy Its Own Insurance
Oct 20 2014 // Lawmakers have given Louisiana State University (LSU) the authority to leave the state-run insurance program and buy its own coverage in a first-of-its-kind arrangement for a Louisiana public college. University System...
Feds Want Louisiana Road Home Money Back
Oct 20 2014 // New Orleans must return hundreds of millions of dollars paid in home elevation grants after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says. The department wants names of nearly 18,000...
Judge: Louisiana Law Applies
Oct 20 2014 // Texas Brine asserted in an emailed statement to Insurance Journal, that “Liberty filed in Texas despite the fact that the sinkhole occurred in Louisiana, and all the other claimants and claims are in Louisiana. Texas...
Texas Brine, Liberty Insurance at Odds Over $50M Louisiana Sinkhole Claim
Oct 20 2014 // The collapse of a portion of a salt dome that left a 37-acre sinkhole in swampy land west of Baton Rouge, La., has bubbled up into a $50 million dispute between the mine operator and its insurance company. Texas Brine LLC...
Delivery Fees at Heart of Suit by LA Times Against OC Register
Oct 16 2014 // The Los Angeles Times filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Orange County Register over what the Times says is breach of contract and failure to pay more than $2 million in delivery fees. The lawsuit alleges that the...
Judge Halts Disposal in Louisiana of Texas Ebola-Tainted Ash
Oct 15 2014 // A state judge signed an order temporarily blocking ash from the incineration of a Texas Ebola victim’s belongings to be disposed of at a southwest Louisiana site. Attorney General Buddy Caldwell had sought the order...
Severe Storm Claims 2 Lives, Knocks Out Power in South
Oct 15 2014 // A severe storm system rolled across the South for a second day Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands as it made a mess of the morning commute in Atlanta and other Southern cities. The storm, which claimed two lives a...
NTSB: Pilot Error in Fatal Plane Crash in Louisiana
Oct 13 2014 // A National Transportation Safety Board report cites pilot inexperience with the aircraft as the likely cause of a fatal crash in Baker last year. The Advocate reports John Cary Fowler had plenty of experience as a pilot,...
Aquiline Capital Partners Investing in Louisiana’s Worley Claims Services
Oct 10 2014 // Aquiline Capital Partners LLC (Aquiline), a New York-based private equity firm, announced it is acquiring a majority stake in Worley Claims Services (Worley), headquartered in Hammond, La. Founded in 1976, Worley provides...
Without Liability Insurance, Louisiana Town May Pay Parish for Police Services
Oct 9 2014 // The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana has proposed charging the town of Sorrento $353,832 for the first year with a possible increase of up to 5 percent the next year to provide policing services if...
