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Report: Counties with Levees Are Among the Nation’s Most Economically Sound

Flooding Costs Are Outweighed by Regional Economic Benefits Hundreds of levees around the United States protect vulnerable areas and tens of millions of people from potentially devastating floods each year. Yet hardly anyone gives them a second thought until one …

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Report: Counties with Levees Are Among the Nation’s Most Economically Sound

Flooding Costs Are Outweighed by Regional Economic Benefits There are hundreds of levees around the United States that protect vulnerable areas and tens of millions of people from potentially devastating floods each year. Yet hardly anyone gives them a second …

Levees Protect Some of Nation’s Key Economic Areas

Flooding Control Costs Are Outweighed by Regional Economic Benefits, Study Finds There are hundreds of levees across the U.S. — from Miami to Los Angeles and Detroit to New Orleans- that protect vulnerable areas and tens of millions of people …

Michigan Workers’ Compensation Claim Costs Among Lowest, Most Stable

Workers’ compensation total costs per claim in Michigan are among the lowest of 15 states, and the growth of these costs in Michigan over time has been more stable than in most other study states, according to a new study. …

Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish OKs St. Bernard Levee Plan

Resolving what could have been a four-month delay to a crucial piece of the levee system around St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, the Plaquemines Parish Council has approved a plan for a small stretch of the project to cross into Plaquemines. …

Entergy, Insurers File Second Suit Against Corps Over Katrina Flooding

Entergy Corp. has filed a second suit against the Army Corps of Engineers over flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina, leaving behind hundreds of millions of dollars to power systems and higher rates for hundreds of thousands of electricity customers in …

Louisiana Citizens Shedding More Homeowners Policies

Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., which insures homes and commercial properties shunned by private companies, continues to shed policies. The company’s chief executive officer, John Wortman, said he hopes the company will be down to 120,000 policyholders by the end …

Louisiana AG Sues Chinese Drywall Manufacturers and Distributors

Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell filed suit in Orleans Parish against multiple Knauf entities, other international and domestic manufacturers, distributors, importers of alleged toxic Chinese drywall. Several builders were also named in the lawsuit. Caldwell’s lawsuit alleges the State of …

Connecticut Teen’s Death Revives Bus Seat Belt Debate

For more than a decade, Connecticut lawmakers have considered and dismissed the idea of requiring seat belts on school buses that carry nearly 500,000 children each day. But a deadly weekend crash in Hartford has given the argument a human …