All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 26 2018 // Louisiana State Police say a construction crane working to widen Interstate 10 collapsed onto an SUV, injuring the driver.Trooper Thomas Gossen says the driver’s injuries were moderate. The accident occurred before...
Sep 20 2018 // Louisiana’s insurance commissioner says the state’s auto insurance market may be stabilizing, with a smaller rise in premiums expected this year compared with prior years.Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says...
Sep 19 2018 // Amid concerns about bottlenecks to access, Louisiana regulators have agreed to loosen limits on how many medical marijuana patients doctors authorized to dispense cannabis can treat.Louisiana’s State Board of Medical...
Sep 18 2018 // Complaints of sex discrimination made against the University of Louisiana at Lafayette by nine female athletes include allegations by some of the women of inappropriate behavior by the university’s president and...
Sep 14 2018 // Brightway Insurance has expanded its footprint in Louisiana with the opening of Brightway, The LeBlanc Agency, in Hammond.Brightway Insurance is a national property/casualty insurance retailer selling through a network of...
Sep 13 2018 // Six of Louisiana’s coastal parishes will split more than $41 million to pay for projects aimed at fortifying communities against coastal land loss and rising seas.Ten projects in Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines,...
Sep 10 2018 // Frank Opelka has been appointed deputy commissioner of the Office of Health, Life and Annuity at the Louisiana Department of Insurance. Opelka comes to the Department of Insurance from the Louisiana Department of Health...
Sep 10 2018 // Two young men have pleaded no contest to misdemeanor hazing in the drinking death of a Louisiana State University fraternity pledge whose blood alcohol level was more than six times the legal limit for driving.Sean-Paul...
Sep 3 2018 // Tropical Storm Gordon will grow into a hurricane as it grazes offshore natural gas and oil fields, where it has already sparked evacuations, before coming ashore over the lower Mississippi Valley later on Tuesday or early...
Sep 3 2018 // A new task force created to investigate the high cost of auto insurance in Louisiana held its first meeting on Aug. 21, the Louisiana Department of Insurance reported.The 2018 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature...
Sep 3 2018 // Alarming Statistic“Flood insurance will not keep rising water out of your home or business, but it will help protect the investment you have in them.” — Alabama Emergency Management Director Brian...
Aug 29 2018 // Louisiana’s not seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment increased by 26,000 jobs from July 2017 to 1,980,200, marking 10 consecutive months of increases, the Louisiana Workforce Commission reported.Over the same time...
Aug 27 2018 // An Allemands, Louisiana-based provider of marine transportation services will pay $165,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).The EEOC said Otto...
Aug 22 2018 // A new task force created to investigate the high cost of auto insurance in Louisiana held its first meeting on Aug. 21, the Louisiana Department of Insurance reports.The Louisiana High Auto Rates Task Force was formed by...
Aug 20 2018 // The parents of a Louisiana State University freshman who died of alcohol intoxication last year after an alleged fraternity hazing filed a federal lawsuit against the university board, the fraternity and several of the...
Aug 20 2018 // A law that went into effect on Aug. 1 in Louisiana allows insurance producers to employ convicted felons if the producer obtains permission or consent in writing from the state insurance commissioner. The Louisiana...
Aug 20 2018 // Darrick Lee, a licensed attorney in both Louisiana and Texas, has been appointed fraud manager in the Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration (OWCA) at the Louisiana Workforce Commission.Lee has 13 years of...
Aug 20 2018 // Louisiana expects to spend $649 million on homeowner rebuilding aid after the 2016 floods, only about half the federal money Congress set aside for the effort.The Advocate reports 44 percent fewer households than...
Aug 17 2018 // Louisiana’s first legal crop of medical marijuana can be planted this week.Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain, whose agency regulates the burgeoning industry, loosened a regulatory logjam that created a months-long...
Aug 16 2018 // Giant cranes loading and unloading gargantuan barges. Oil tankers, supply vessels and pipelines serving a vital energy industry. Flood control structures. Chemical plants. Cruise ships. Drinking water sources. All...