Latest Louisiana Headlines
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LSU Flagship Campus Authorized to Buy Its Own Insurance
Oct 20 2014 // Lawmakers have given Louisiana State University (LSU) the authority to leave the state-run insurance program and buy its own coverage in a first-of-its-kind arrangement for a Louisiana public college. University System...
Feds Want Louisiana Road Home Money Back
Oct 20 2014 // New Orleans must return hundreds of millions of dollars paid in home elevation grants after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says. The department wants names of nearly 18,000...
Judge: Louisiana Law Applies
Oct 20 2014 // Texas Brine asserted in an emailed statement to Insurance Journal, that “Liberty filed in Texas despite the fact that the sinkhole occurred in Louisiana, and all the other claimants and claims are in Louisiana. Texas...
Texas Brine, Liberty Insurance at Odds Over $50M Louisiana Sinkhole Claim
Oct 20 2014 // The collapse of a portion of a salt dome that left a 37-acre sinkhole in swampy land west of Baton Rouge, La., has bubbled up into a $50 million dispute between the mine operator and its insurance company. Texas Brine LLC...
Delivery Fees at Heart of Suit by LA Times Against OC Register
Oct 16 2014 // The Los Angeles Times filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Orange County Register over what the Times says is breach of contract and failure to pay more than $2 million in delivery fees. The lawsuit alleges that the...
Judge Halts Disposal in Louisiana of Texas Ebola-Tainted Ash
Oct 15 2014 // A state judge signed an order temporarily blocking ash from the incineration of a Texas Ebola victim’s belongings to be disposed of at a southwest Louisiana site. Attorney General Buddy Caldwell had sought the order...
Severe Storm Claims 2 Lives, Knocks Out Power in South
Oct 15 2014 // A severe storm system rolled across the South for a second day Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands as it made a mess of the morning commute in Atlanta and other Southern cities. The storm, which claimed two lives a...
NTSB: Pilot Error in Fatal Plane Crash in Louisiana
Oct 13 2014 // A National Transportation Safety Board report cites pilot inexperience with the aircraft as the likely cause of a fatal crash in Baker last year. The Advocate reports John Cary Fowler had plenty of experience as a pilot,...
Aquiline Capital Partners Investing in Louisiana’s Worley Claims Services
Oct 10 2014 // Aquiline Capital Partners LLC (Aquiline), a New York-based private equity firm, announced it is acquiring a majority stake in Worley Claims Services (Worley), headquartered in Hammond, La. Founded in 1976, Worley provides...
Without Liability Insurance, Louisiana Town May Pay Parish for Police Services
Oct 9 2014 // The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana has proposed charging the town of Sorrento $353,832 for the first year with a possible increase of up to 5 percent the next year to provide policing services if...
Thousands to Get Damages in Chinese Drywall Suit, Louisiana Judge Says
Oct 8 2014 // A federal judge in Louisiana has ruled that nearly 4,000 homeowners who say Chinese drywall ruined their homes are eligible to share any further damages he may award in lawsuits against Taishan Gypsum Co. Ltd., a...
Judge: New Louisiana Law Can’t Stop Suit Against ‘Big Oil’
Oct 8 2014 // A state judge in Baton Rouge ruled that Louisiana’s Legislature missed its mark when it passed a bill seeking to halt a south Louisiana flood board’s lawsuit against dozens of oil, gas and pipeline companies...
Louisiana Agriculture Officials Seek Drone Rule Changes
Oct 6 2014 // Louisiana agricultural officials have asked the federal government to loosen restrictions on the use of pilotless aerial vehicles. The Advocate reported the Federal Aviation Administration is modifying drone regulations...
Louisiana’s 37-acre Sinkhole Spawns Insurance Fight
Oct 6 2014 // The collapse of a portion of a salt dome that left a 37-acre sinkhole in swampy land west of Baton Rouge has bubbled up into a $50 million dispute between the mine operator and its insurance company. Texas Brine LLC wants...
Changes to Louisiana State Health Insurance Program to Be Delayed
Oct 2 2014 // Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration announced that it was delaying heavily criticized changes to the state health insurance program by two months, but not backing off the rewrite to benefits. Most changes to the...
Lafourche Parish in Louisiana Sees Rise in DWI Arrests
Sep 30 2014 // As DWI arrests have risen over recent years, the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana is working to keep impaired drivers off the road. Spokesman Brennan Matherne tells The Daily Comet the sheriff’s...
Louisiana’s Vermilion Parish Plans to Build Flood Walls to Protect Schools
Sep 30 2014 // School officials in Louisiana’s Vermilion Parish are moving ahead with plans for a concrete wall and pump system to protect more of the parish’s schools from floodwaters. The Advocate reports the latest project...
Analysis: Health Insurance, Other Issues Put Pressure on Louisiana Governor
Sep 28 2014 // Gov. Bobby Jindal has been viewed as a health care policy wonk, and he’s tried to build on that image ahead of a likely 2016 presidential campaign, positioning himself as the candidate with substantive ideas. But his...
Private Sector Employment Records Set in Louisiana in August
Sep 26 2014 // Louisiana’s private sector employers continued adding jobs and setting state employment records in August, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in seasonally adjusted data, the Louisiana Workforce...
Louisiana Parish Says Hazard Plan Update Nearly Complete
Sep 25 2014 // Officials in Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish are completing their latest plans for dealing with dangerous situations the area could face. In a 2015 Hazard Mitigation Plan update, a committee focused on levee failure,...
