All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 2 2019 // Communities in several states along the Mississippi River are watching the skies this week as rainfall will likely determine whether the river reaches record crests and how much it will raise floodwaters.The National...
Apr 30 2019 // The death of a Louisiana nurse who was attacked by a mental health patient has prompted the medical community to demand better hospital safety practices.News outlets report Baton Rouge General Medical Center nurse Lynne...
Apr 29 2019 // The National Weather Service says at least nine tornadoes were formed during a two-day period of severe weather in eastern Texas and Louisiana.Meteorologist Davyon Hill says seven tornadoes were part of the same parent...
Apr 29 2019 // With three more tornadoes confirmed Friday from an April 18 outbreak, the National Weather Service now says 43 tornadoes hit Mississippi that day, and 75 for the year.The one-day amount alone equals Mississippi’s...
Apr 26 2019 // A tornado killed two people as it swept through the northern Louisiana city of Ruston early Thursday, officials said.The tornado caused severe damage to buildings, vehicles and power lines and forced a local university to...
Apr 26 2019 // A bill aimed at lowering Louisiana’s sky-high auto insurance rates has passed the state House of Representatives.On April 23, House lawmakers passed HB 372, named the “Omnibus Premium Reduction Act of 2019,...
Apr 22 2019 // Federal regulators say a Louisiana company that operates a fleet of off-shore work boats in the Gulf of Mexico discriminated against and fired employee due to perceived disability.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Apr 18 2019 // The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $8 million to a teenager who was sexually abused by the athletic director at her Catholic high school who had continued to work despite prior allegations of misconduct, it...
Apr 17 2019 // Millions of people may be able to show their smartphones rather than a plastic card to prove they’re legit to drive, vote or buy a beer in coming years.Louisiana in July became the first state to make digital...
Apr 16 2019 // The white man suspected in the burning of three African American churches in Louisiana will remain in jail, denied bond Monday by a judge, as state prosecutors added new charges declaring the arsons a hate...
Apr 15 2019 // The U.S. Catholic diocese where the first widely reported case of clergy sex abuse became public in the 1980s released a list Friday of 33 priests and four deacons credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor or vulnerable...
Apr 12 2019 // AM Best has upgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “bbb+” from “bbb” and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) of Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Co....
Apr 10 2019 // Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based workers’ compensation mutual insurer, LWCC, will distribute a $51 million dividend for 2018 to more than 20,000 policyholders in mid-April. This amount represents one-fourth of the...
Apr 9 2019 // Some of the world’s largest insurers are eagerly pitching cities, states and even school districts on policies designed to pay out quickly with few questions in the event of extreme weather. The catch: Even a...
Apr 5 2019 // Four African Americans can move ahead with a lawsuit seeking damages from a Louisiana district attorney’s office over the racial composition of juries, a federal judge has ruled.U.S. District Judge Dee Drell in...
Apr 4 2019 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance has served the owners and an employee of Scholars First LLC, a provider of bus transportation services to several New Orleans-area charter schools, with cease and desist (C&D)...
Apr 3 2019 // Residents in six southeastern Louisiana parishes will get some relief from backwater flooding thanks to a new floodgate.Gov. John Bel Edwards announced this week that the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration...
Apr 1 2019 // The City of New Orleans is suing various oil and gas companies over coastal erosion.Mayor Latoya Cantrell on Friday announced the lawsuit, which alleges that pipeline work has caused massive damage to Louisiana’s...
Mar 27 2019 // A packaging company in Monroe, Louisiana, has agreed to pay $70,000 in lost wages and damages, and provide other significant relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit.The suit filed by the U.S. Equal...
Mar 15 2019 // AM Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A (Excellent) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “a” from “a-” of Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co....