All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 3 2025 // Louisiana parish officials who threatened to arrest and imprison an environmental activist as she attempted to speak during a public meeting did not violate her right to freedom of speech, a unanimous civil jury ruled...
Feb 3 2025 // Not far from where Ceci Carroll lives, a rock-mining company has polluted the air with dust across the San Gabriel Valley, she said.Now, as crews clean charred remains from the Los Angeles wildfires, she worries about a...
Jan 30 2025 // Preliminary data show insurance companies have paid out more than $4 billion for losses from the biggest two of the Los Angeles-area wildfires that swept through the region and destroyed tens of thousands of homes earlier...
Jan 30 2025 // A law firm representing victims of the Eaton Fire in Los Angeles has submitted photos with a legal filing on Wednesday that appear to show exposed wire at the base of a Southern California Edison tower that the firm...
Jan 30 2025 // The fires in California have been devastating for many small business owners and others who saw their homes, businesses or livelihoods go up in smoke.Raquel “Rockey” Smeir startedMy Friends Café in Sierra...
Jan 30 2025 // The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is facing the risk of significant financial liability for damages in the utility’s response to the Palisades Fire, according to Pacific Investment Management...
Jan 29 2025 // Climate change made Southern California’s dangerous wildfire conditions in early January 35% more likely than they would have been before the industrial era, according to a new analysis by the scientific group World...
Jan 28 2025 // Trucordia has acquired the insurance business of CADA Insurance Services which has multiple offices in Louisiana, including Baton Rouge, Chalmette, Gretna and Kenner. “The CADA Insurance team is a welcome addition to...
Jan 27 2025 // Fire investigators have asked Southern California Edison Co. to preserve its equipment near the site where the deadly Eaton fire began earlier this month.The Los Angeles County Fire Department, the lead agency...
Jan 24 2025 // The impact of the historic Los Angeles-area wildfires is being broadly examined and continually refined, with updates almost daily on insured losses, total economic losses and damages, credit ratings—and lately worrying...
Jan 24 2025 // The Los Angeles wildfires could consume more than 30% of the aggregate natural catastrophe budgets set for 2025 by Europe’s four largest reinsurers – Swiss Re, Munich Re, Hannover Re and SCOR, according to a Fitch...
Jan 24 2025 // Sugarcane crops in Louisiana and Florida, the only two states producing sugar from cane in the United States, could be hurt by the cold snap in the area, while citrus farms seemed to have mostly been spared, experts said...
Jan 23 2025 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is asking all California insurance companies to provide advance payments on claims for Los Angeles wildfire survivors.Lara’s order is designed to help speed the recovery...
Jan 23 2025 // Moody’s Ratings said in a report on Thursday that it expects the Los Angeles wildfires to increase property insurance costs across California.According to Moody’s, the state’s already noticeable insurance...
Jan 23 2025 // Toni Boucher threw up the first time she saw the charred remains of her home and neighborhood after this month’s deadly Los Angeles-area wildfires. Now she wonders if it’s worth it to go back to sift through...
Jan 22 2025 // A historic winter storm threatened natural gas shipments from one the biggest US export plants while heavy snow shut schools and airports in Houston and highways in New Orleans.A low-pressure system is dropping bitter cold...
Jan 22 2025 // Among natural disasters, wildfires are the great unknown. Even the most-sophisticated scientific models fail to capture all the risk factors or properly account for the increasing impact of climate change.It’s a...
Jan 21 2025 // Dangerous winds and drought will create extreme fire risk across Southern California Tuesday, putting more than 11 million people in the path of conditions that would allow blazes to spread quickly as the region holds out...
Jan 20 2025 // Moody’s RMS Event Response said insured losses for the January 2025 Los Angeles fires will likely fall in the $20 billion to $30 billion range.The Jan. 17 estimate from Moody’s RMS came a day after CoreLogic...
Jan 17 2025 // The Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Louisiana Citizens) Board of Directors voted last week to end the 1.36% assessment it makes on all residential and commercial property insurance policies in the state...