Latest Louisiana Headlines
All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Biden’s LNG-Permit Halt Challenged by 16 States in Lawsuit
Mar 22 2024 // Texas, Louisiana and more than a dozen other US states challenged the Biden administration’s suspension of new licenses to export natural gas via ocean-going tankers. A lawsuit filed against President Joe Biden and...
Louisiana Truck Driver Charged After Deadly 2023 Pileup
Mar 19 2024 // RESERVE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana truck driver has been charged with negligent homicide for his role in a fiery highway pileup that left eight dead last year after a “super fog” of marsh fire smoke and dense...
Walgreens to Pay $205K Over Pregnancy Discrimination at Louisiana Store
Mar 18 2024 // Pharmacy and retailer Walgreens Co. has agreed to pay $205,000 and provide other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency...
Business Moves
Mar 18 2024 // East King Insurance Partners, Mehta Insurance Agency Florida-based King Insurance Partners acquired Mehta Insurance Agency, located in Absecon, New Jersey. Mehta Insurance Agency’s offerings include business, flood...
People Moves: Former Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Donelon Joins McGlinchey
Mar 15 2024 // McGlinchey Stafford, headquartered in New Orleans, named former Louisiana commissioner of insurance and attorney Jim Donelon as a member. While his insurance regulatory practice is national in scope, he will primarily work...
Drought and Extreme Heat Devastate Louisiana’s Crawfish Harvest
Mar 11 2024 // BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Amid a crawfish shortage in Louisiana, the nation’s top producer of the crustaceans that are a staple in Gulf Coast seafood boils, Gov. Jeff Landry issued a disaster declaration for the...
Louisiana Commissioner Temple Seeks $20M for Fortify Homes Program
Mar 8 2024 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple expects lawmakers to allocate at least $20 million to the Lousiana Fortify Homes Program during the legislative session that begins on Monday. The funds would applied to the...
Marsh McLennan Agency Acquires Pair of Louisiana Agencies
Mar 4 2024 // Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA), a subsidiary of Marsh, announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisitions of two Louisiana-based middle-market agencies, Querbes & Nelson (Q&N) and Louisiana...
Company Linked to MMA Law Firm Still Paid by Florida; Case Highlights Issue with AOBs
Feb 27 2024 // The continuing saga of the Houston-based plaintiffs’ law firm of McClenny Moseley & Associates, suspended and sanctioned for flooding courts with erroneous lawsuits against property insurers in Louisiana, has...
Louisiana Lawmakers Push for Tougher Penalties in Response to Surge in Carjackings
Feb 22 2024 // BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In the moments before Linda Frickey was dragged to her death during a fatal carjacking, the 73-year-old had been sitting in her parked vehicle in New Orleans when she was surrounded by four...
Marsh McLennan Acquires 2 Louisiana Agencies
Feb 20 2024 // Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA), a subsidiary of Marsh, announced that it signed agreements to acquire two Louisiana-based middle-market agencies, Querbes & Nelson (Q&N) and Louisiana Companies, doubling the...
Louisiana Furniture Retailer Settles Race Discrimination Lawsuit for $105K
Feb 9 2024 // A furniture retailer and lessor based in Louisiana has agreed to pay a former employee $105,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency...
Louisiana Manufacturer to Pay $105K Over Age Discrimination Suit
Feb 5 2024 // J&M Industries, Inc., a manufacturing and distribution company based in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, has agreed to pay a former employee $105,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Louisiana Medical Group to Pay $480K Over Phishing Attack
Jan 31 2024 // The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), last month announced that Lafourche Medical Group, a Louisiana medical group specializing in emergency medicine, occupational medicine,...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Louisiana’s Forest Insurance Facilities
Jan 29 2024 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that its U.S. wholesale brokerage, binding authority and programs division, Risk Placement Services, Inc. (RPS), has acquired Metairie, Louisiana-based Forest Insurance Facilities....
EPA Blocks Access to Louisiana Apartment Complex Due to Cancer-Causing Chemicals
Jan 29 2024 // BENTON, La. (AP) — After cancer-causing chemicals were found in the soil at a north Louisiana apartment complex, the Environmental Protection Agency has blocked access to part of the property and will move to abate the...
Mississippi Businesses, Cities Sue to Protect Dolphins From Louisiana Spillway
Jan 26 2024 // JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Opening a spillway as a flood-control measure in 2019 sent polluted fresh water from the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico and killed bottlenose dolphins that live in saltwater, according to...
Fifth Circuit Upholds $502K Award for Louisiana Church in Hurricane Laura Damage Suit
Jan 25 2024 // The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month upheld a 2022 decision against Church Mutual Insurance Co. in favor of Sugartown United Pentecostal Church in Dry Creek, Louisiana, which sits about 50...
Louisiana Property Initiatives Are Meeting Expectations, Ex-Commissioner Says
Jan 22 2024 // Outgoing Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said that two initiatives to address the state’s property insurance market are meeting expectations. Companies participating in the Insure Louisiana Incentive...
Tim Temple Sworn in as Louisiana Insurance Commissioner
Jan 8 2024 // Tim Temple was sworn in as Louisiana Insurance Commissioner at noon Monday. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple Temple won election for the state’s top insurance official in October after his opponent dropped...
