All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 11 2016 // A Baker woman accused of defrauding Louisiana to the tune of $1 million-plus in a Medicaid fraud scheme has been sentenced to five years in prison. Even though 38-year-old Chanda Hall pleaded guilty in April to a...
Aug 11 2016 // State health officials say Louisiana has received a $19.5 million federal grant to help communities that are still recovering from devastating floods this past spring. The Disaster Case Management grant is from the Federal...
Aug 9 2016 // The oil industry has left a big footprint along the Gulf Coast, where a Delaware-sized stretch of Louisiana has disappeared.But few politicians would blame Big Oil for ecosystem abuse in a state where the industry employs...
Aug 4 2016 // Those who live inland and those who live along Louisiana’s coast differ in their viewpoint of homeowners and renter’s insurance, according to a new survey of registered Louisiana voters.The survey by NORC...
Aug 4 2016 // About 1,500 people in Louisiana’s health insurance program for state workers, public school employees and retirees have been overcharged for their coverage and are due refunds.That’s the word from Gov. John Bel...
Aug 3 2016 // A federal judge has awarded $50,000 in damages to a woman who accused a former Louisiana police chief of sexually assaulting her in his office while she was drunk and he was on duty.U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick ruled...
Jul 28 2016 // Cleanup was underway on July 26 on an oil spill caused by a leak from an abandoned pipeline in southeast Louisiana waters.The U.S. Coast Guard says the leak happened in an abandoned pipeline near marshland along Lake Grand...
Jul 28 2016 // Louisiana State Police say eight people have been arrested in connection with an alleged insurance fraud scheme involving staged traffic crashes in Jefferson Davis Parish.A state police news release says the investigation...
Jul 27 2016 // Louisiana consumers have received more than $3.7 million in recovered funds from their insurance companies in the first half of the year thanks to assistance from the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI).“Over the...
Jul 25 2016 // A 33-year-old Raceland, La., man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to arson in a fire that destroyed three homes last summer in Gheens.The Daily Comet reports Treiston Pierron pleaded guilty to...
Jul 18 2016 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a north Louisiana business is recalling more than 21,500 pounds of catfish products for hotels, restaurants and other institutions in six states. The recall by Haring Catfish Inc. of...
Jul 13 2016 // A state judge has refused to dismiss the city-parish from a lawsuit by the mother of a 4-year-old Baton Rouge boy who drowned in an abandoned sewer hole near his home in 2014.The East Baton Rouge City-Parish government...
Jul 11 2016 // Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed a bill authorizing driver payment plans to repay the state Office of Motor Vehicles for the outstanding fines. Louisiana law requires drivers to have insurance on their vehicles....
Jul 11 2016 // Legislation awaiting the signature of Louisiana’s governor significantly lowers the amount of rebate that property insurance policyholders would receive for assessments to cover the debts of the state’s...
Jul 6 2016 // A.M. Best has assigned a financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating of “a-” to The Gray Insurance Company of Louisiana (GICLA) in Metairie, La. The outlook assigned to each rating...
Jun 29 2016 // Former Gov. Bobby Jindal’s privatization of claims processing and loss prevention services for Louisiana’s self-insurance program saved the state money, though less than projected, according to an audit...
Jun 27 2016 // Rapides Parish officials are warning a handful of holdouts in south Alexandria, La., subdivisions that they could be isolated if they don’t accept federally-financed flood buyouts.Carrie Robinette, grant...
Jun 23 2016 // Legislation awaiting the signature of Louisiana’s governor would significantly lower the amount of rebate property insurance policyholders would receive for assessments to cover the debts of the state’s...
Jun 21 2016 // Jury selection began on June 20 for what’s expected to be a lengthy and complex trial arising from lawsuits over an offshore oil platform explosion and fire that killed three workers off Louisiana’s coast in...
Jun 20 2016 // The worst oil bust since the 1980s is putting Texas and other oil producing states on the hook for thousands of newly abandoned drilling sites at a time when they have little money to plug wells and seal off environmental...