All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 24 2021 // Jennifer Carnevale’s yard can hold 23 inches of water before her house floods.She knows because her family has seen the water cross that all-important threshold, twice. “We’ve measured it,” the...
Aug 24 2021 // Hurricane Laura made landfall in Southwest Louisiana nearly a year ago but local officials and state insurance regulators say the area still a long way to go to recover.Laura, which made landfall on August 27, 2020,...
Aug 23 2021 // Local prosecutors have reached a $2 million settlement with a New Orleans man who spent 23 years in prison before being cleared on charges including rape and manslaughter.“I welcome this measure of justice after so...
Aug 20 2021 // Local prosecutors have reached a $2 million settlement with a New Orleans man who spent 23 years in prison before being cleared on charges including rape and manslaughter.“I welcome this measure of justice after so...
Aug 17 2021 // Louisiana insurance regulators issued a new advisory reminding people who sell insurance in the state that they must have a licensed to do so.According to the Louisiana Department of Insurance Advisory Letter 2021-05,...
Aug 16 2021 // A public hearing into the deadly capsizing of the Seacor Power lift boat off the coast of Louisiana has ended.The two-week U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation hearing concluded Aug. 13 with testimony from two...
Aug 12 2021 // A Louisiana man pleaded guilty of participating in insurance fraud scheme involving staged accidents with commercial trucks in the New Orleans area.The U.S. Justice Department said Dewayne Coleman, age 22, of Marrero,...
Aug 12 2021 // Louisiana’s top higher education board on Aug. 10 enacted the rules governing how college campuses must respond to and report sexual misconduct and harassment complaints, with training for school administrators...
Aug 9 2021 // The amount of money that insurers expect to pay for the 2020 hurricanes continues to grow, albeit more slowly, as Louisiana gets further away from last year’s historic storm season.According to the Louisiana...
Aug 9 2021 // The question of whether lawsuits blaming big oil companies for loss of vulnerable Louisiana coastal wetlands will be tried in state courts, as local parish governments want, or in federal courts, as the oil companies want,...
Aug 5 2021 // Farmers in two south Louisiana parishes who lost property during extreme weather in April through June may be eligible for federal aid, Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain said.Physical-loss loans...
Aug 5 2021 // Farmers in two south Louisiana parishes who lost property during extreme weather in April through June may be eligible for federal aid, Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain said Tuesday.Physical-loss...
Aug 4 2021 // A Lake Charles, Louisiana, orthopedic surgeon pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud conspiracy, the U.S. Justice Department reported.Robert Dale Bernauer Sr., 74, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to...
Aug 2 2021 // Work has formally begun in Louisiana on a $760 million, three-parish levee project that was first proposed a half-century ago.State officials said 17.5 miles of levee and a mile of T-wall will protect 60,000 residents of...
Aug 2 2021 // Residents relocating from an eroding island off Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish will move into homes built and designed to help weather hurricanes.Officials involved with the project toured the New Isle development in...
Jul 28 2021 // Southwest Louisiana residents and businesses have only a few more days to apply for federal disaster assistance because of property damage or other eligible losses in May due to severe storms, tornadoes and flooding.FEMA...
Jul 27 2021 // The state’s not seasonally adjusted number of employed individuals increased in June both over the month and over the year for the third consecutive month, the Louisiana Workforce Commission reported.The June 2021...
Jul 23 2021 // Texas has a long way to go but despite getting hit by four hurricanes and one tropical storm in 2020, Louisiana still ranks as one of the top 10 states for resilience based on its statewide building codes.The “Rating...
Jul 19 2021 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Gaylon Brown of TexCap Insurance in Dallas to serve as chair for 2021-2022 during IIAT’s annual business meeting on June 25, 2021.Brown is CEO and Managing...
Jul 19 2021 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon in early July ordered GeoVera Specialty Insurance Co. to stop non-renewing Louisiana homeowners policies in violation of state law.In a cease and desist order, Donelon told the...