A New Orleans judge has approved a $25 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed over the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina. The deal was reached between Tenet Healthcare Corp., which operated the Memorial …
A day after two unarmed Louisiana insurance fraud investigators were gunned down while looking into a case, the state insurance commissioner said that his department may have their agents carry weapons. Kim Sledge and Rhett Jeansonne had been on what …
They call it the Vidalia Riverfront — a strip of land between the Mississippi River and the levee, with a park, walking trail, a camp ground, and $75 million worth of buildings that generate 300 jobs for this town of …
A major New Orleans hospital and the company that owned it have settled a class action lawsuit in the deaths and injuries of patients who were stranded there during and after Hurricane Katrina. The settlement was reached March 23 as …
A last-minute effort to work out a settlement with Tenet Health Systems and Memorial Medical Center in a lawsuit over deaths at the hospital during Hurricane Katrina was unsuccessful. Jury selection for the trial was to begin Mar. 22 in …
Terry Lisotta, who was indicted in late 2008 on 14 counts of theft by fraud from the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., was unable to work out a plea deal with prosecutors Feb. 18. Lisotta paced anxiously outside the courtroom …
A federal jury has convicted a woman of conspiring with a former Louisiana lawmaker to conceal her illegal operation of an insurance business by laundering money. Prosecutors contend Gwendolyn Moyo sold bogus construction bonds and laundered roughly $2 million to …
Dr. Anna Pou — the cancer surgeon charged with murder after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans — and her attorney are spearheading three bills in the Louisiana Legislature aimed at protecting medical personnel in future disasters. “What happened to Dr. …
The owners of a nursing home in St. Francisville, La., where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina were acquitted Sept. 7 of negligent homicide and cruelty charges for not evacuating the facility as the storm approached. The jury took about …
Attorneys in St. Francisville, La., prepared Aug. 15 to try to select the final jurors to hear the case of a couple charged with negligent homicide in the deaths of 35 patients at their nursing home following Hurricane Katrina. Five …
