All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 17 2020 // Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed a Republican-crafted plan to spend $300 million in federal coronavirus aid to help small businesses recover from the outbreak, agreeing to a grant program that peeled off dollars...
Jun 17 2020 // Despite a veto from the governor, the Louisiana House has plowed ahead with a top priority for business lobbying groups, trying to lessen the money that people could win against insurance companies and businesses in car...
Jun 17 2020 // Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp. has completed its previously announced merger plans with sister carrier, Prepared Insurance Co.Lighthouse will assume the Prepared portfolio and write directly in the state of Florida,...
Jun 15 2020 // Gov. John Bel Edwards on June 12 vetoed eight bills passed by Louisiana lawmakers in their recently ended regular session, including the business lobby’s top priority, a measure to scale back damage claims against...
Jun 12 2020 // Behavior-based auto insurance from Noblr is now available in Louisiana, the company said.The company provides an app-powered, personalized car insurance experience that rewards members’ good driving behaviors with...
Jun 11 2020 // A Louisiana woman was surprising her husband with breakfast when a plane hit her vehicle, causing it to flip several times and catch fire, according to a lawsuit filed over the December crash.Kristie Danielle Britt is...
Jun 10 2020 // A bill designed to prevent auto insurance companies from raising rates for deployed members of the U.S. military has been signed by Louisiana’s governor.Gov. John Bel Edwards signed Senate Bill 16 by Sen. Jay Luneau,...
Jun 10 2020 // That Texas, Louisiana and Florida top the list of states that are most vulnerable to natural disasters is probably a finding of a recent study that will come as no surprise to folks who live in those states.Another likely...
Jun 10 2020 // Catastrophe modeling firm Karen Clark & Company (KCC) said on Wednesday it expects insured losses of close to $150 million from tropical storm Cristobal.Cristobal is the third named storm to form and impact the United...
Jun 9 2020 // Tropical Storm Cristobal weakened into a depression early on June 8 after inundating coastal Louisiana and ginning up dangerous weather along most of the U.S. Gulf Coast, sending waves crashing over Mississippi beaches,...
Jun 8 2020 // Rain pounded the U.S. Gulf Coast on Sunday ahead of the arrival of Tropical Storm Cristobal, which had already spawned a tornado in Florida.Roads flooded in coastal Louisiana and Mississippi, and thousands were without...
Jun 7 2020 // Sunday, June 7 – Tropical Storm Cristobal on Sunday slowed its advance through the Gulf of Mexico, bringing a coastal storm surge, high winds and rain to southeast Louisiana, where it is expected make landfall later...
Jun 5 2020 // A Louisiana insurance agency that state insurance regulators say enabled a former insurance producer to transact insurance business without a license has been issued a Cease and Desist order.Insurance Commissioner Jim...
Jun 5 2020 // After a last-minute scramble to pass the business lobby’s top priority for the regular session, Republican legislators quickly realized they mangled the language of the bill aimed at limiting damage claims against...
Jun 4 2020 // As Louisiana lawmakers on June 2 resumed work on piecing together a budget, their biggest unresolved financial question centered not on the coronavirus pandemic, but on how much they’ll want to give in tax breaks to...
Jun 2 2020 // Wrapping up a regular session shortened by the coronavirus pandemic, Louisiana’s Legislature gave the state’s business lobby a long-desired goal and one that Republicans made their signature push for the...
Jun 1 2020 // For two years in a row, Louisiana has had the ignoble distinction of finishing dead last, with a grade of “F,” in the R Street Institute’s annual report card of the insurance regulatory environment in...
Jun 1 2020 // Louisiana lawmakers want to give protections from most lawsuits for coronavirus deaths and injuries to businesses that never closed during the outbreak and those that are newly reopening.The Republican-led bills by Sen....
May 29 2020 // Louisiana lawmakers are one step from removing most restrictions on which medical conditions are eligible for medical marijuana, allowing doctors to recommend the treatment for any patient they believe it would help.The...
May 29 2020 // A Louisiana man who insurance regulators say continued to transact insurance business after having had his state insurance licensed revoked has been issued a cease and desist order by Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon.The...