The city of New Orleans is using a $12.5 million grant to elevate more than 50 houses that have experienced repeated flooding. The city says in a news release that the money comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Flood …
Louisiana Farm Bureau is following the downward trend in auto insurance rates started by State Farm and Progressive insurance companies, the Louisiana Department of Insurance reported. Louisiana Farm Bureau has filed for a 4.4% rate decrease on 220,000 automobile policies, …
Gov. Greg Abbott has signed four bills into law aimed at bolstering the state’s emergency preparedness and disaster relief programs, including framework that provides more than $1.6 billion for flood control projects and repairs across the state. The legislation, which …
The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC) reports that as a result of the passage of legislative revisions to 2013 workers’ compensation reforms, it is required to review and update the schedule of fees by which doctors who treat injured workers …
L-3 Communications, a large defense contractor with facilities in Texas, will pay $75,000 and furnish other relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit. According to the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), an engineer hired …
A prominent cancer hospital in Houston will be subject to more aggressive federal oversight after authorities found the facility in violation of serious hospital requirements for patient care and safety. The clampdown on MD Anderson Cancer Center follows an “adverse …
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has approved a filing by Progressive Security Insurance Co. for a 2.2% rate decrease on new and renewal auto insurance business in the state. The decreases will take effect in late summer, according to the …
Johnson & Johnson used promotional gimmicks for its opioid painkillers that are similar to how criminal drug dealers try to boost sales, a pharmaceutical-industry critic told a judge hearing Oklahoma’s claim that the company helped fuel a crisis of addiction. …
An investigation into an explosion at an Oklahoma natural gas drilling rig that killed five workers last year faulted inadequate training and equipment and called for new regulations, the U.S. safety regulator said. The Pryor Trust gas well in Pittsburgh …
An Oklahoma judge is declining to approve the state’s proposed $85 million settlement with an opioid maker until he’s assured it complies with a new law targeting such deals. The attorney general’s office says Cleveland County Judge Thad Balkman has …
