All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 8 2013 // A former operator of a Baton Rouge, La., furniture store destroyed by a fire in 2006 pleaded guilty to a wire fraud charge stemming from the blaze and was put on probation.The Advocate reported that Ron Henderson, who...
May 6 2013 // Renewal of the Terrorism and Risk Insurance Act was a much talked about topic at the annual Risk and Insurance Management Society conference, a four-day event in Los Angeles, Calif. in late April that included panels...
Apr 30 2013 // The LSU AgCenter says high prices and record yields for corn and soybeans drove Louisiana’s agricultural economy to a record high of $11.4 billion last year. That’s about 6.5 percent more than the 2011 total of...
Apr 26 2013 // A fast-moving line of intense thunderstorms flooded streets, knocked out power to more than 30,000 people in southeast Louisiana on April 24 and spawned two tornadoes that damaged homes and businesses in Jefferson...
Apr 25 2013 // Los Angeles has the worst traffic in the nation, according to a new report.The Los Angeles Times reported LA beat out Honolulu for jam leader in the 2012 scorecard from traffic information firm INRIX. The scorecard says...
Apr 22 2013 // State officials in Louisiana have approved a grant that will pay for 50 percent of the cost of a new floodgate to be built on Bayou Pointe-aux-Chenes.The Courier reports the barge floodgate will be 56 feet wide and 18 feet...
Apr 18 2013 // Large rate hikes for customers of Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort would require legislative approval, under a bill that received Senate Insurance Committee backing.St. Mary Parish Sen. Bret Allain...
Apr 18 2013 // Louisiana may owe the federal government more than $115 million for disaster relief aid that was misspent or awarded to ineligible recipients after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a state audit said.The legislative auditor...
Apr 16 2013 // Lawmakers in Lousiana are looking to prevent a repeat of the massive Assumption Parish sinkhole that officials say was caused by a collapsed underground salt cavern – and make sure prospective property owners know what...
Apr 16 2013 // A previous version of the more than $20 million settlement proposed in 2008 in a class action suit over flooding in Louisiana stemming from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has been revised. The new settlement now includes a...
Apr 15 2013 // City officials in Westwego, La., want to make it more difficult for residents to own pit bulls in a crackdown following a near-fatal attack last month.The Times-Picayune reports officials are working on amendments to...
Apr 12 2013 // Hold that Twitter thought. If you are driving in Louisiana, a proposed state law would make it illegal for you to post status updates or anything else to social media websites.With an eye toward closing a loophole in the...
Apr 10 2013 // The flow of the Houma Navigation Canal in Louisiana completely stopped recently for the first time in the waterway’s 50-year existence.The door of the Bubba Dove Floodgate was connected and fully closed as part of...
Apr 9 2013 // Travelers Insurance announced it has reached a settlement with policyholders in Louisiana over property damage caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.The Hurricane Katrina-Travelers Settlement Administrator said the...
Apr 9 2013 // The governing board for Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort didn’t choose an alternate approach on April 3 to balance the company’s books after a $100 million borrowing plan stalled at the state...
Apr 8 2013 // Louisiana has received $95 million in legal settlements with insurance companies, ending questions about whether the money would roll in for this year’s budget or leave lawmakers scrambling to fill a...
Apr 5 2013 // A U.S. judge’s ruling Friday against BP Plc means the company can proceed with its appeal of the way a court-appointed administrator apportions payments for claims related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, some...
Apr 4 2013 // Snowfall in Southern Louisiana is a rarity, but one doozy of a snowball fight has been ongoing since at least 2006 and has resulted in four separate lawsuits, now consolidated in the United States District Court for the...
Apr 1 2013 // DeRidder, La.-based AMERISAFE Inc., a specialty provider of hazardous workers’ compensation insurance, has promoted G. Janelle Frost, currently the company’s chief financial officer, has been promoted to chief...
Apr 1 2013 // Louisiana beer tavern owners Chuck Brechtel and Eddie Dyer are the first to admit that plenty can go wrong when your main line of work is serving alcohol to thirsty crowds all night.For that reason, they say they err...