Latest Louisiana Headlines
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Louisiana Woman Gets 5 Years in Prison for $1M-Plus Medicaid Fraud Scheme
Aug 11 2016 // A Baker woman accused of defrauding Louisiana to the tune of $1 million-plus in a Medicaid fraud scheme has been sentenced to five years in prison. Even though 38-year-old Chanda Hall pleaded guilty in April to a...
Louisiana Receives $19.5M Federal Disaster Recovery Grant
Aug 11 2016 // State health officials say Louisiana has received a $19.5 million federal grant to help communities that are still recovering from devastating floods this past spring. The Disaster Case Management grant is from the Federal...
Louisiana Politicians Join Suits Blaming Big Oil for Coastal Ruin
Aug 9 2016 // The oil industry has left a big footprint along the Gulf Coast, where a Delaware-sized stretch of Louisiana has disappeared. But few politicians would blame Big Oil for ecosystem abuse in a state where the industry employs...
Survey: Louisianans’ Views on Insurance Depend on Where They Live
Aug 4 2016 // Those who live inland and those who live along Louisiana’s coast differ in their viewpoint of homeowners and renter’s insurance, according to a new survey of registered Louisiana voters. The survey by NORC...
Refunds Due to 1,500 in Louisiana’s State Benefits Program
Aug 4 2016 // About 1,500 people in Louisiana’s health insurance program for state workers, public school employees and retirees have been overcharged for their coverage and are due refunds. That’s the word from Gov. John...
Louisiana Judge Awards $50K in Sorrento Police Chief Sex Assault Case
Aug 3 2016 // A federal judge has awarded $50,000 in damages to a woman who accused a former Louisiana police chief of sexually assaulting her in his office while she was drunk and he was on duty. U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick ruled...
Coast Guard: Abandoned Pipe Leaked Oil Along Southeast Louisiana Coast
Jul 28 2016 // Cleanup was underway on July 26 on an oil spill caused by a leak from an abandoned pipeline in southeast Louisiana waters. The U.S. Coast Guard says the leak happened in an abandoned pipeline near marshland along Lake...
Louisiana State Police Arrest 8 for Insurance Fraud, Staged Accidents
Jul 28 2016 // Louisiana State Police say eight people have been arrested in connection with an alleged insurance fraud scheme involving staged traffic crashes in Jefferson Davis Parish. A state police news release says the investigation...
Louisiana Recovers More Than $3.7M for Insurance Consumers
Jul 27 2016 // Louisiana consumers have received more than $3.7 million in recovered funds from their insurance companies in the first half of the year thanks to assistance from the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI). “Over...
Louisiana Man Gets 10 Years for Arson Fire That Destroyed 3 Homes
Jul 25 2016 // A 33-year-old Raceland, La., man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to arson in a fire that destroyed three homes last summer in Gheens. The Daily Comet reports Treiston Pierron pleaded guilty...
Louisiana Company Recalls 21,500 Pounds of Catfish Products
Jul 18 2016 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a north Louisiana business is recalling more than 21,500 pounds of catfish products for hotels, restaurants and other institutions in six states. The recall by Haring Catfish Inc. of...
Louisiana Judge: City-Parish to Remain in Lawsuit over Sewer Hole Drowning
Jul 13 2016 // A state judge has refused to dismiss the city-parish from a lawsuit by the mother of a 4-year-old Baton Rouge boy who drowned in an abandoned sewer hole near his home in 2014. The East Baton Rouge City-Parish government...
Louisiana Drivers May Now Repay Auto Insurance Fines in Installments
Jul 11 2016 // Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed a bill authorizing driver payment plans to repay the state Office of Motor Vehicles for the outstanding fines. Louisiana law requires drivers to have insurance on their vehicles....
Louisiana Bill Cuts Citizens Insurance Assessment Rebate
Jul 11 2016 // Legislation awaiting the signature of Louisiana’s governor significantly lowers the amount of rebate that property insurance policyholders would receive for assessments to cover the debts of the state’s...
‘A-‘ Rating Assigned to The Gray Insurance Co. of Louisiana
Jul 6 2016 // A.M. Best has assigned a financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating of “a-” to The Gray Insurance Company of Louisiana (GICLA) in Metairie, La. The outlook assigned to each rating...
Audit Finds State Insurance Program Privatization Saved Louisiana $10M
Jun 29 2016 // Former Gov. Bobby Jindal’s privatization of claims processing and loss prevention services for Louisiana’s self-insurance program saved the state money, though less than projected, according to an audit...
Parish Officials Warn of Isolation for Louisiana Flood Buyout Refusal
Jun 27 2016 // Rapides Parish officials are warning a handful of holdouts in south Alexandria, La., subdivisions that they could be isolated if they don’t accept federally-financed flood buyouts. Carrie Robinette, grant...
Louisiana Bill Lowers Citizens Insurance Assessment Tax Break
Jun 23 2016 // Legislation awaiting the signature of Louisiana’s governor would significantly lower the amount of rebate property insurance policyholders would receive for assessments to cover the debts of the state’s...
Trial Begins over 2012 Fire, Explosion that Killed 3 Off Louisiana Coast
Jun 21 2016 // Jury selection began on June 20 for what’s expected to be a lengthy and complex trial arising from lawsuits over an offshore oil platform explosion and fire that killed three workers off Louisiana’s coast in...
States Faced with Massive Well Cleanup from Oil Bust
Jun 20 2016 // The worst oil bust since the 1980s is putting Texas and other oil producing states on the hook for thousands of newly abandoned drilling sites at a time when they have little money to plug wells and seal off environmental...
