All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 19 2018 // Louisiana patients could soon get more details about what happens at the pharmacy counter and whether they’ve gotten the most affordable medication for an ailment.In the regular legislative session, lawmakers passed...
Jun 18 2018 // The last defendant pleaded guilty to conspiracy and agreed that he owes the federal government $149,000 in a case involving a huge explosion at a Louisiana National Guard-owned site.William Terry Wright’s plea...
Jun 18 2018 // He wouldn’t call himself a hero, but the 83-year-old woman Dennis P. Neyland rescued from a carjack/kidnapping and robbery on the streets of downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, probably would.Neyland, an insurance...
Jun 13 2018 // Lawmakers in Louisiana enacted legislation this year that allows insurers to keep up with policyholder demands to conduct business electronically, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America...
Jun 13 2018 // A sulfuric acid release sent two contractors at an ExxonMobil chemical plant in Louisiana to the hospital.Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality spokesman Greg Langley says the agency wasn’t immediately sure...
Jun 7 2018 // A Louisiana parish has issued 8,000 tickets for uninsured cars and trucks after installing license plate readers last year. Bossier Parish Sheriff Julian Whittington says the $200 citations were mailed to vehicle owners...
Jun 5 2018 // More Louisiana residents with chronic pain and suffering will be able to seek treatment for their ailments through the state’s medical marijuana program.Gov. John Bel Edwards agreed to the expansion proposal a few...
Jun 5 2018 // He wouldn’t call himself a hero, but the 83-year-old woman Dennis P. Neyland rescued from a carjack/kidnapping and robbery on the streets of downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, probably would.Neyland, an insurance...
Jun 4 2018 // Gov. John Bel Edwards has vetoed three bills that would have changed Louisiana’s insurance laws, including two sought by the state’s insurance commissioner.The first bill, sponsored by River Ridge Rep. Kirk...
Jun 4 2018 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance says the state’s homeowners insurance market is much more competitive these days than it was a decade ago.The LDI reported in its 2018 Agency Snapshot that in 2017, the...
Jun 4 2018 // Louisiana posted the worst economic performance among the 50 states in 2017, becoming one of only three states where the economy shrank.Gross domestic product numbers released in early May by the federal Bureau of Economic...
May 31 2018 // Texas and Louisiana are among the top three states for potential storm surge losses at the start of the 2018 hurricane season, which begins on June 1.That’s according to Irvine, California-based CoreLogic, a provider...
May 31 2018 // Workers’ compensation total costs per claim in Louisiana were the highest in a recent study of 18 states conducted by Cambridge, Mass.-based Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), the organization...
May 25 2018 // An African-American offshore oil worker has filed a federal lawsuit saying he was intimidated on the job by a supervisor who drew a picture of him dangling from a high rig structure while surrounded by co-workers in Ku...
May 23 2018 // The board of directors for LWCC, a provider of competitive workers’ compensation insurance to Louisiana employers, has declared a 2017 dividend of $81 million to its policyholders.The amount was distributed to...
May 21 2018 // Louisiana will not be enacting a ban on hand-held cellphone use while driving.A House-backed proposal stalled in the Senate, and the regular session ended Friday without action on the bill, killing it. Rep. Mike Huval, a...
May 16 2018 // Gov. John Bel Edwards has vetoed three bills that would have changed Louisiana’s insurance laws, including two sought by the state’s insurance commissioner.The Republican-sponsored measures are the first bills...
May 15 2018 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance says the state’s homeowners insurance market is much more competitive these days than it was a decade ago.The LDI reported in its 2018 Agency Snapshot that in 2017, the...
May 11 2018 // Florida-based Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has acquired the book of business of Affiliated Insurance Managers Inc., headquartered in Morgan City, Louisiana. With over 30 years of serving the state of...
May 10 2018 // Louisiana state lawmakers again have spurned efforts to enact statewide regulations governing ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft.Facing pushback from senators, House Speaker Taylor Barras pulled House Bill 749...