Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said that while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has not given specific time for opening the Morganza Spillway on the Mississippi River upstream from New Orleans to reduce the possibility of downstream flooding, state and …
A federal judge has sentenced Sean Hunter, the former director of aviation at Louis Armstrong International Airport, to one year and a day in prison in a Hurricane Katrina insurance fraud case. The Times-Picayune reports U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval …
Another dry week in the southern United States has driven the spread of a devastating drought further across Texas and neighboring states, promising to add to economic losses that could top $3 billion. Texas, suffering its longest dry spell on …
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that Emma Fontenot has assumed the position of deputy commissioner of the Office of Health for the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI). Fontenot most recently served as program manager at the Louisiana Department of …
Virtually all insurance policies contain provisions and exclusions dealing with events that most insureds consider so remote and unlikely that they rarely give any thought to their possible occurrence, much less what effect such an occurrence might mean to their …
Republicans in Texas easily swatted down major changes to insurance regulation in a Texas House bill that would keep the current rules and bureaucracy in place. The bill continuing the functions of the Texas Department of Insurance passed on a …
Arkansas has seen 59 tornadoes so far this year, a number more than twice what the state sees in a typical year. There also have been 22 weather-related deaths. The warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service in North …
Company Nurse, a nurse hotline for workplace injuries, has expanded its presence in Texas, adding account management staff to serve the Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and surrounding areas. Company Nurse was developed to help reduce workers’ compensation costs for employers …
Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., is urging the United States Department of Agriculture Office of Risk Management to categorize the opening of the Morganza Spillway as a natural disaster. The spillway, which diverts flood water from the …
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 …
