Home Smashed: For One Family, Hurricane Laura the Third Strike August 31, 2020 By Nomaan Merchant HACKBERRY, La. — Bradley Beard calls Hurricane Laura his third strike. In 2005, Rita pushed a foot of floodwaters into...
Texas Court Erases $13M From Jury Award for Offshore Oil Well Claim December 2, 2019 By Jim Sams A Texas appellate court shaved $13.6 million off of a jury’s award against Lloyds’ of London syndicates to the owner...
Coastal Louisiana Struggles 10 years After Hurricane Rita September 25, 2015 By MELINDA DESLATTE Vacant slabs, weed-choked lots and solitary stairs to nowhere permeate this tiny town in southwest Louisiana. All that remains of...
Donelon: Louisiana’s Homeowners Market Stronger 9 Years after Hurricane Katrina August 29, 2014 Louisiana’s property insurance market is vastly improved nine years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the state on Aug. 29, 2005, largely...
Rule Changes Expected to Boost Road Home Program August 5, 2013 Federal officials have approved three policy changes to the Louisiana Road Home program that will provide relief to families who...
Audit Says Louisiana May Owe Feds for Misspent Storm Aid April 17, 2013 Louisiana may owe the federal government more than $115 million for disaster relief aid that was misspent or awarded to...
Court To Notify Katrina And Rita Flood Victims on Class Action Settlement April 17, 2013 A notification program began Monday as ordered by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to alert...
Travelers Reaches Settlement With Property Owners in Louisiana April 10, 2013 A proposed Settlement has been preliminarily approved by the court in Arthur v. The Standard Fire Insurance Co. and The...
Citizens Settlement OK’d Over Katrina, Rita Claims February 1, 2013 Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. on Wednesday finalized a $20 million settlement related to claims handled after hurricanes Katrina and...
Texas Men Charged With 2005 Hurricane Rita Fraud December 13, 2012 Two Southeast Texas men have been charged with submitting bogus invoices to steal from government recovery programs after 2005’s Hurricane...