Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Little Change in Louisiana Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries, Illnesses in 2018
Jan 16 2020 // The Louisiana Workforce Commission reports that the incidence rate of work-related injuries and illnesses among Louisiana’s private sector employers was essentially unchanged in 2018, according to a recent Bureau of...
Wholesale Distributor in Louisiana to Pay $140K to Settle Disability Discrimination Suit
Jan 14 2020 // A wholesale distributor based in Jefferson Parish, La., has agreed to pay $140,000 and provide other significant relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
11 Dead After Storms Sweep Southern U.S., Midwest
Jan 13 2020 // Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and up into the Midwest were blamed Saturday in the deaths of at least 11 people, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes and unrelenting rain...
Declarations
Jan 13 2020 // Employee vs. Contractor “Little companies just trying to start out won’t be able to afford our services.” — Tamara Ellison, whose Ontario, Calif.-based company bears her name, has used independent...
Insurance Journal’s Top 10 South Central Region Stories of 2019
Jan 2 2020 // It almost seemed like there was a major fire or explosion per month at one petrochemical facility or another in the South Central region last year. That’s not really the case, but there were a number of high-profile...
Former Office Manager Sentenced to Prison for Embezzling $1.2M from Louisiana Business
Dec 31 2019 // The former office manager of a business headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been sentenced to more than three years in prison after being convicted of embezzling more than $1 million from her employer. United...
Judge Overturns $15M Award to Ex-LA Times Columnist
Dec 30 2019 // A judge has overturned a jury’s award of nearly $15.5 million to a former sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times who said he was forced out of his job because of age and health discrimination. Superior Court...
New Limits on Lawsuits a Goal for Louisiana Republicans
Dec 27 2019 // After an election season in which conservative Republicans made Louisiana’s high car insurance rates a campaign issue, GOP lawmakers expect efforts to try to limit damages awarded in car wreck lawsuits to be front...
Louisiana Adds More Jobs Year-Over-Year; Baton Rouge, Hammond MSAs Set Records
Dec 24 2019 // Preliminary data released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) shows that the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, metropolitan statistical area (MSA) set another nonfarm employment record at 415,200 jobs for November 2019,...
Louisiana Governor Declares Emergency After Severe Weather, Tornadoes
Dec 23 2019 // Louisiana is under a state of emergency after an outbreak of severe weather and tornadoes swept through the region. Gov. John Bel Edwards issued the order on Dec. 18, after a line of storms associated with a cold front...
Louisiana’s Fidelis Group Holdings Promotes 3 in Claims Division
Dec 20 2019 // Fidelis Group Holdings LLC (FGH), a Covington, Louisiana-based provider of marine insurance coverage and services, has made three key promotions in its claims division, Fidelis Claims Service LLC (FCS). Christian Kelly has...
Louisiana Transportation Department to Implement New Roadwork Safety Measures
Dec 19 2019 // Louisiana’s transportation department will boost safety measures at its roadwork sites, the agency’s secretary announced at a ceremony honoring an employee killed on the job this summer. Department of...
4 Dead After Storms Leave ‘Trail of Destruction’ Across the South
Dec 19 2019 // A swarm of tornadoes and storms that left a trail of destruction across the Southeast killed four people, injured at least a dozen more and left victims to bundle up against the cold as they picked up pieces of their homes...
Louisiana’s Fidelis Group Holdings Changes Management Structure
Dec 18 2019 // Covington, Louisiana-based Fidelis Group Holdings LLC (FGH), a provider of marine insurance coverage and services, has created a new senior management structure for the company and its subsidiaries, Continental...
4 Dead, Including 1 in Louisiana, as Twisters, Storms Batter the South
Dec 18 2019 // A swarm of tornadoes and storms that left a trail of destruction across the Southeast killed four people, injured a dozen more and left victims to bundle up against the cold as they picked up pieces of their homes...
Another Cyberattack Attempt in Louisiana: Sheriff’s Offices
Dec 17 2019 // Three Louisiana parish sheriff’s offices were targeted by hackers over the weekend in a suspected cyberattack, officials confirmed. The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office received a call from the Sheriff’s...
USDA Designates Some Louisiana Parishes as Natural Disaster Areas
Dec 16 2019 // Agriculture producers in some Louisiana parishes now may be eligible for assistance from the federal government due to losses from Hurricane Barry, the state’s agriculture commissioner reported. Louisiana Agriculture...
Declarations
Dec 16 2019 // Louisiana Cyberattack “Now that we’ve had this incident, does that put a target on our back, kind of, for more bad guys to hit our system?” — Louisiana state Sen. Sharon Hewitt, a Republican from...
Louisiana’s Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Adds Lege, Moore
Dec 12 2019 // Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Co., based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has hired Brandon Lege as director of Loss Prevention and John Moore as a production underwriter. Lege was formerly the safety and training manager for...
Request for Proposals Announcement
Dec 9 2019 // Metairie, LA, December 9, 2019 – Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. (‘LCPIC’), has released a new request for proposals for vendors to service insurance claims after a catastrophe, such as in...
