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Report: Louisiana Seafood Industry Saw $580M in Losses From 2020-21 Hurricanes
Jan 19 2022 // Louisiana’s fisheries and seafood businesses experienced approximately $580 million in total losses resulting from four hurricane between August 2020 to August 2021, according to a new report by the Louisiana Sea...
Power Fully Restored to Louisiana’s Barrier Island Five Months After Ida
Jan 18 2022 // A little over five months after Hurricane Ida devastated Grand Isle, Louisiana’s barrier island, electricity is fully up and running, the mayor’s office said. Ida made landfall Aug. 29. Grand Isle was nearly...
Louisiana Helicopter Crashes Leaves 2 Presumed Dead
Jan 18 2022 // A pilot and passenger are presumed dead after the crash Jan. 14 of a helicopter in a south Louisiana marsh, a local government official said. The sheriff’s office in coastal Lafourche Parish got a call from a witness...
Court Rejects Louisiana Pastor’s Virus Restrictions Suit
Jan 14 2022 // A Louisiana pastor’s lawsuit over Gov. John Bel Edwards’ past COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings was rejected for a second time by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson in Baton Rouge said...
Louisiana’s Stonetrust Goes Live with Insurity Workers’ Comp Solution
Jan 14 2022 // Insurity, a provider of cloud-based software for insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs, has announced that workers’ compensation insurer Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Company has successfully implemented...
Louisiana Woman 30th Guilty Plea in Staged Auto Crash Cases
Jan 13 2022 // A Louisiana woman has pled guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud arising out of a staged automobile accident with a tractor-trailer occurring in New Orleans, making her the 30th guilty plea in “Operation...
Officials Blame Discarded Fireworks for Louisiana Church Blaze
Jan 12 2022 // Carelessly discarded New Year’s fireworks may have started a blaze that destroyed much of a church, the Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office says. Investigators haven’t determined a definite cause of the...
7,500 Louisiana Ida Victims Move From Tent Camps to Trailers
Jan 12 2022 // More than four months after Hurricane Ida destroyed or did major damage to their houses, some Louisiana residents are just now moving from tent camps to government-supplied mobile homes and RV trailers. Shantell Campbell...
Tornadoes Reported in Houston, Northwest Louisiana
Jan 11 2022 // At least two tornadoes touched down in the Houston area over the weekend as storms brought high winds and heavy rains, damaging homes and businesses and causing flooding. Most of the damage from the storms that came...
Louisiana Supreme Court Upholds Employer COVID Vaccine Mandate
Jan 10 2022 // The Louisiana Supreme Court on Jan. 7 unanimously upheld a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the state’s largest healthcare system. The ruling was handed down the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about...
Louisiana Car Dealer to Pay $100K Disability Discrimination Settlement
Jan 10 2022 // Hollingsworth Richards, LLC, a Louisiana car dealer doing business as Honda of Covington, has agreed to pay a former sales representative $100,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal...
Jonesboro, Louisiana Fire Chief, Sheriff’s Deputy Arrested for Insurance Fraud
Jan 5 2022 // A Jonesboro, Louisiana fire chief and a Jackson Parish sheriff’s deputy have been arrested for insurance fraud over an alleged fraudulent vehicle crash that involved two Jonesboro Fire Department vehicles. In August...
Louisiana Women Sue Over Fatal Salt Mine Collapse
Jan 3 2022 // Two women have sued the operator of a Louisiana salt mine where a roof collapse killed their husbands a year ago. Genee Romero and Alexandra Patin said in nearly identical lawsuits that Cargill Inc. officials and...
New Louisiana Law Expands Medical Marijuana Program
Jan 3 2022 // Louisiana’s medical marijuana program will offer raw, smokable cannabis to its patients, and the state will tweak its calculations for state income taxes as more than two dozen new laws take effect Saturday with the...
SafePoint to Assume 30K Louisiana Policies From Insolvent Insurers
Dec 30 2021 // SafePoint Insurance Co. will assume 30,000 Louisiana homeowners policies from two insolvent insurers, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced Dec. 29. The 19th Judicial District Court approved terms of the takeover,...
Louisiana Workers’ Comp Rates to Decrease 10.5% in 2022
Dec 29 2021 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has approved a 10.5% reduction in workers’ compensation rates for 2022. The decrease is set to take effect May 1, 2022. Louisiana has seen workers’ compensation...
Family Sues Oil Company After Fatal Louisiana Tank Explosion
Dec 28 2021 // Relatives of a 14-year-old girl who died when an oil storage tank exploded in February have sued the company that operated the tank. The suit against Urban Oil & Gas Group and its insurer was filed in federal court in...
Fire Truck Tire Explosion Kills Louisiana Firefighter
Dec 21 2021 // A northwest Louisiana firefighter died Saturday after a tire he was maintaining on a fire truck exploded. The South Bossier Parish Fire District No. 2 said 28-year-old Jessie Henry died at one the district’s stations...
Louisiana Braces for Higher Flood Insurance Costs
Dec 20 2021 // In the past year, the southwestern Louisiana city of Lake Charles weathered two hurricanes, intense rainfall that sent water gushing down streets and a deep freeze that burst pipes. Yet Tommy Eastman may eventually drop...
Louisiana Insurers Face $100 Million Fee after Ida-Related Insolvencies
Dec 20 2021 // Louisiana property and casualty insurers will be assessed $100 million to cover the cost of two regional insurance companies facing insolvency due to losses from Hurricane Ida. The Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association...
