Settlement Reached in Post-Katrina Patient Deaths July 25, 2011 By Mary Foster A New Orleans judge has approved a $25 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed over the deaths of patients...
Louisiana Insurance Fraud Investigators May Carry Guns in Future June 10, 2011 By Kevin McGill and Mary Foster A day after two unarmed Louisiana insurance fraud investigators were gunned down while looking into a case, the state insurance...
Louisiana Town Works to Save Economic Engine From Flood May 11, 2011 By Mary Foster and Michael Kunzelman They call it the Vidalia Riverfront — a strip of land between the Mississippi River and the levee, with a...
Settlement Reached in New Orleans Hospital Katrina Class Action Lawsuit March 25, 2011 By Mary Foster A major New Orleans hospital and the company that owned it have settled a class action lawsuit in the deaths...
Class Action Suit Over New Orleans Hospital Katrina Deaths Begins March 23, 2011 By Mary Foster A last-minute effort to work out a settlement with Tenet Health Systems and Memorial Medical Center in a lawsuit over...
No Plea Deal for Ex-Insurance Executive in Louisiana February 22, 2010 By Mary Foster Terry Lisotta, who was indicted in late 2008 on 14 counts of theft by fraud from the Louisiana Citizens Property...
Jury Convicts Louisiana Woman in Money Laundering Scheme October 23, 2008 By Mary Foster A federal jury has convicted a woman of conspiring with a former Louisiana lawmaker to conceal her illegal operation of...
New Orleans Doctor Accused Post-Katrina Wants New Disaster Laws May 12, 2008 By Mary Foster Dr. Anna Pou — the cancer surgeon charged with murder after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans — and her attorney...
Owners of La. Nursing Home Acquitted in Katrina Deaths Case September 10, 2007 By Mary Foster The owners of a nursing home in St. Francisville, La., where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina were acquitted Sept....
Jury Selection Begins in La. in Katrina Nursing Home Trial August 16, 2007 By Mary Foster Attorneys in St. Francisville, La., prepared Aug. 15 to try to select the final jurors to hear the case of...