Latest Louisiana Headlines
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$1.2B in Federal Flood Control Funds Going to Louisiana
Apr 9 2018 // Louisiana is set to receive $1.2 billion in grant funding from the federal government for flood control and prevention projects. Gov. John Bel Edwards and U.S. Rep. Garret Graves announced the funding on April 5. The...
Study: Mississippi River Flood Control Work Likely Worsened Downstream Flooding
Apr 6 2018 // Flood control engineering on the Mississippi River and its tributaries has likely made floods worse in Mississippi and Louisiana, researchers say. Using 500 years of data from tree rings and from sediment in oxbow lakes...
Owners Settle with Louisiana Sheriff, Deputy Over Killing of Dog
Apr 6 2018 // The owners of a dog that was shot and killed by a Louisiana sheriff’s deputy will receive $75,000 in a settlement of their lawsuit against a sheriff who has had legal troubles. The settlement isn’t an...
Bill to Lower Louisiana Drinking Age Shelved
Apr 5 2018 // Louisiana’s legal drinking age will remain 21, after a state senator shelved his proposal to let some younger people buy alcoholic beverages if they’re educated about the risks before imbibing. Sen. Eric...
3 Petrochemical Companies to Pay $11M for Waste Violations in Louisiana
Apr 2 2018 // Three petrochemical companies have agreed to pay $11 million to settle charges of illegally disposing hazardous waste that damaged natural resources in part of a Louisiana river’s estuary. The Environmental...
Louisiana Bill Raises Civil Penalties in Hazing Death Lawsuits
Apr 2 2018 // People who file civil lawsuits in Louisiana when someone dies from hazing could be in line for higher penalty payments, under a bill that won easy passage from the state Senate. Senators voted 28-3 for Senate Bill 91 by...
Louisiana Lawmakers Eyeing BP Oil Spill Money
Apr 2 2018 // As Louisiana lawmakers scrounge for money, state senators are eyeing an annual stream of Gulf oil spill recovery money tied to economic losses from the disaster. Louisiana is expected to receive yearly payments of $53.3...
Louisiana Senate Backs Higher Civil Penalties in Hazing Death Lawsuits
Mar 29 2018 // People who file civil lawsuits in Louisiana when someone dies from hazing could be in line for higher penalty payments, under a bill that won easy passage from the state Senate. Senators voted 28-3 Wednesday for Senate...
Louisiana Bill Banning Forced Arbitration in Workplace Harassment Claims Fails
Mar 28 2018 // Louisiana lawmakers have jettisoned a measure that would have banned employers from requiring their workers to sign contracts that keep them from filing sexual harassment lawsuits in civil court. The House voted 50-42...
State Paying to Move Residents as Louisiana Island Shrinks
Mar 26 2018 // The effects of global warming can be seen and touched in Louisiana, where officials have begun buying higher ground to relocate an entire town in a bayou being swallowed by higher seas. The Louisiana Office of Community...
Outlooks Revised to Stable for Louisiana’s Stonetrust Commercial Insurance
Mar 21 2018 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to stable from negative and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bbb” of workers’ compensation insurer,...
Why Storm-Prone States Continue to Balk at Tough Building Codes
Mar 19 2018 // The showdown in the Florida statehouse last year had all the drama of a knock-down political brawl: Powerful industries clashing. Warnings of death and destruction. And a surprise last-minute vote, delivering a sweeping...
People
Mar 19 2018 // Nicholas “Nick” Lorusso has been appointed chief deputy of the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) and Denise Dunckel has been named deputy commissioner of Public Affairs. Lorusso will manage LDI operations...
FBI: More than 100 School Threats in Louisiana Since Feb. 14
Mar 14 2018 // Authorities have investigated at least 106 threats of violence in or near schools in Louisiana since the Feb. 14 mass shooting at a Florida high school, state police and the FBI said. The news came as the University of New...
Company Wants Appeals Court to Lift Halt in Louisiana Oil Pipeline Work
Mar 5 2018 // A company building a crude oil pipeline in Louisiana has asked a federal appeals court to lift a judge’s order that temporarily halts pipeline construction work in a swamp. Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC asked the 5th...
Louisiana AG Taking Control of State’s Opioid Lawsuit
Mar 5 2018 // Louisiana’s attorney general is taking charge of a state lawsuit against drug manufacturers, under a deal that ends a dispute with the governor’s office over who controls litigation against the companies over...
Death of Worker on Energy Platform Off Louisiana Coast Under Investigation
Mar 5 2018 // An oil and gas worker on a Talos Energy LLC platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was killed on Feb. 17 while replacing piping, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said. The worker, who was not...
Lorusso, Dunckel to Fill Deputy Posts at Louisiana Insurance Department
Mar 2 2018 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has appointed Nicholas “Nick” Lorusso as chief deputy of the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) and Denise Dunckel as the deputy commissioner of Public...
Outlooks Revised to Positive for Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual
Feb 26 2018 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “a-” of Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual...
Lawyer: 13-Year-Old Oil Leak Off Louisiana Coast a ‘Long-Term Problem’
Feb 20 2018 // A 13-year-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico remains a “long-term problem” without a clear solution for eliminating chronic slicks that often stretch for miles off Louisiana’s coast, a government lawyer...
