All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 14 2022 // The Louisiana State Police have hired an outside consultant to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the scandal-plagued agency, a potentially years-long process intended to help restore public trust following a string of...
Mar 11 2022 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon, Senate Insurance Committee Chair Kirk Talbot, and House Insurance Committee Chair Mike Huval introduced six bills on March 10 that form a catastrophe reform legislative package...
Mar 11 2022 // The former head of the Louisiana State Police has agreed to appear before the legislative committee investigating the fatal arrest of Ronald Greene _ an in-custody death one lawmaker described March 8 as “a...
Mar 7 2022 // Hurricane Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rain on parts of the Texas coast in 2017. Then in 2020, ferocious winds from Hurricane Laura destroyed homes across coastal Louisiana. Hurricane Ida hit in 2021, leaving the...
Mar 2 2022 // SafePoint Insurance Co. will assume approximately 24,000 homeowners policies in Louisiana from Americas Insurance Co., which was placed into receivership in January after suffering heavy losses from a series of hurricanes...
Mar 2 2022 // Louisiana Congressman Garret Graves, St. Charles Parish President Matthew Jewell, FEMA representatives, and members from the St. Charles Parish Council will host a townhall meeting on Thursday, March 3, 2022, 6:00 PM to...
Mar 2 2022 // A federal judge on Feb. 28 rejected a lawsuit filed by Gulf of Mexico charter fishing boat operators opposed to federal regulations that include a requirement that they affix tracking equipment to their vessels.U.S....
Mar 2 2022 // Both the former owner of a Rogers, Arkansas-based medical supply and billing company and its former chief executive officer have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in three separate conspiracies to...
Mar 1 2022 // The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a district court’s denial of class certification to a group of Louisiana GEICO customers who allege the insurer’s proprietary valuation system...
Feb 28 2022 // The United States, together with the State of Louisiana, announced that U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana has approved the consent decree resolving alleged violations of the Clean Air Act and...
Feb 25 2022 // February 25, 2022 is the deadline for most Louisiana policyholders to file proof of loss for Hurricane Ida damage.Friday marks the 180th day after Ida made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane. Most residential...
Feb 23 2022 // A huge Louisiana refinery was rocked by an explosion and fire on Feb. 21. Marathon Petroleum Corp. said six workers suffered minor injuries.Officials later gave the all-clear sign, but it was not immediately clear what...
Feb 22 2022 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) has issued a series of regulatory actions, including cease-and-desist orders, license suspensions, and a license revocation and fine, against four insurance producers.Brandi...
Feb 22 2022 // Three of the men who pleaded guilty in connection with what a prosecutor called the nation’s worst dumping of explosives still owe substantial restitution _ one for nearly all of the $34.8 million he was ordered to...
Feb 21 2022 // A corroded pipeline that ruptured and spilled 350,000 gallons (1.6 million liters) of diesel fuel into a New Orleans-area wetland did not have a fully functioning leak detection system at the time, according to federal...
Feb 18 2022 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is encouraging policyholders who filed claims for Hurricane Ida damage to check with their agent or insurance company for any required deadlines necessary to settle their...
Feb 17 2022 // Declaring “no cover-up will be tolerated,” Louisiana’s top GOP lawmaker announced a bipartisan legislative investigation into the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene, an inquiry that will...
Feb 14 2022 // A federal judge on Friday blocked for now the Biden administration from restoring Obama-era values for calculating the cost of climate change in the government’s permitting, investment and regulatory decisions.The...
Feb 14 2022 // Seven more people have been charged in New Orleans for their participation in a scheme to stage collisions with commercial trucks, bringing the total number of defendants charged in the federal probe up to 47.United States...
Feb 10 2022 // Louisiana policyholders seeking to file proof of loss for damage due to Hurricane Ida have until Feb. 25, when a 180-day deadline for most residential and commercial property insurance policies expire. Louisiana Insurance...