All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 30 2014 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should bear the full $2.9 billion cost of restoring wetland damage blamed on poor maintenance of the now-closed Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, Louisiana coastal restoration officials say in...
Oct 28 2014 // Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Eli Lilly & Co. won a more than a 99 percent cut in a $9 billion punitive damages award over claims the drugmakers hid the cancer risks of their Actos diabetes medicine.Jurors properly...
Oct 27 2014 // The tornadoes that hit Louisiana’s Ouachita Parish on Oct. 13 did millions of dollars in damage, but officials don’t know whether it will be enough to qualify the parish for help from the Federal Emergency...
Oct 27 2014 // Complaints about trucks tearing up parish roads have prompted the St. Landry Parish Council in Louisiana to re-examine how road-use permits are issued and how the parish can force those causing the damage to pay for...
Oct 21 2014 // The state’s high court has ruled that the University of Louisiana System and its Lafayette campus did not breach a former head football coach’s contract when he was fired.The state Supreme Court ruling reverses...
Oct 21 2014 // Cleanup crews continue to mop up a 4,000-barrell oil spill into a four-mile stretch of Tete Bayou northwest of Shreveport, La.Officials said that the oil has been contained without reaching Caddo Lake, which straddles the...
Oct 20 2014 // Lawmakers have given Louisiana State University (LSU) the authority to leave the state-run insurance program and buy its own coverage in a first-of-its-kind arrangement for a Louisiana public college.University System...
Oct 20 2014 // New Orleans must return hundreds of millions of dollars paid in home elevation grants after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says.The department wants names of nearly 18,000...
Oct 20 2014 // Texas Brine asserted in an emailed statement to Insurance Journal, that “Liberty filed in Texas despite the fact that the sinkhole occurred in Louisiana, and all the other claimants and claims are in Louisiana. Texas...
Oct 20 2014 // The collapse of a portion of a salt dome that left a 37-acre sinkhole in swampy land west of Baton Rouge, La., has bubbled up into a $50 million dispute between the mine operator and its insurance company.Texas Brine LLC...
Oct 16 2014 // The Los Angeles Times filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Orange County Register over what the Times says is breach of contract and failure to pay more than $2 million in delivery fees.The lawsuit alleges that the Register...
Oct 15 2014 // A state judge signed an order temporarily blocking ash from the incineration of a Texas Ebola victim’s belongings to be disposed of at a southwest Louisiana site.Attorney General Buddy Caldwell had sought the order...
Oct 15 2014 // A severe storm system rolled across the South for a second day Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands as it made a mess of the morning commute in Atlanta and other Southern cities.The storm, which claimed two lives a day...
Oct 13 2014 // A National Transportation Safety Board report cites pilot inexperience with the aircraft as the likely cause of a fatal crash in Baker last year.The Advocate reports John Cary Fowler had plenty of experience as a pilot,...
Oct 10 2014 // Aquiline Capital Partners LLC (Aquiline), a New York-based private equity firm, announced it is acquiring a majority stake in Worley Claims Services (Worley), headquartered in Hammond, La.Founded in 1976, Worley provides...
Oct 9 2014 // The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana has proposed charging the town of Sorrento $353,832 for the first year with a possible increase of up to 5 percent the next year to provide policing services if...
Oct 8 2014 // A federal judge in Louisiana has ruled that nearly 4,000 homeowners who say Chinese drywall ruined their homes are eligible to share any further damages he may award in lawsuits against Taishan Gypsum Co. Ltd., a...
Oct 8 2014 // A state judge in Baton Rouge ruled that Louisiana’s Legislature missed its mark when it passed a bill seeking to halt a south Louisiana flood board’s lawsuit against dozens of oil, gas and pipeline companies...
Oct 6 2014 // Louisiana agricultural officials have asked the federal government to loosen restrictions on the use of pilotless aerial vehicles.The Advocate reported the Federal Aviation Administration is modifying drone regulations and...
Oct 6 2014 // The collapse of a portion of a salt dome that left a 37-acre sinkhole in swampy land west of Baton Rouge has bubbled up into a $50 million dispute between the mine operator and its insurance company.Texas Brine LLC wants...