A Hammond woman pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining nearly $8,000 in disaster assistance from the American Red Cross after Hurricane...
Katrina News
In the settlement of lawsuits involving insured claims, it is not uncommon that one condition of the settlement is that...

A New Orleans judge has approved a $25 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed over the deaths of patients...
The Justice Department has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit that accuses a New Orleans, La., construction company of submitting forged...
Mississippi officials said the state budget is in good shape to survive this spring’s twin natural disasters of tornadoes and...
A major New Orleans hospital and the company that owned it have settled a class action lawsuit in the deaths...
A last-minute effort to work out a settlement with Tenet Health Systems and Memorial Medical Center in a lawsuit over...
U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. has declined to dismiss a whistleblower lawsuit filed against State Farm Fire & Casualty...

A federal judge has ruled that a barge that landed on top of several homes in the Lower 9th Ward...