Houma Representative Tanner Magee didn’t mince words when calling out the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for their slow progress setting up trailers for Hurricane Ida victims. Brooke Thorington explains.
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From Covington comes word from District Attorney Warren Montgomery’s office that 18-year-old Larrianna Jackson will be facing felony counts in a video-recorded attack on a wheel-chair bound disabled teacher that went viral on the app Tik-Tok. She’s been charged with second-degree battery and cruelty to the infirmed. If found guilty, she could face up to ten years in prison.
State Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says a voluntary mediation program to help settle residential damage claims stemming from Hurricane Ida is being set up through his office. He says two mediation firms will help resolve damage disputes of up to 50-thousand-dollars at a cost of 600-dollars to the insurer or the policyholder.
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Senate Commerce Chairman Rick Ward says he’s also yet to hear from utility companies on how much of a surcharge customers will pay for the repair and in some cases the rebuilding of the power distribution system following Hurricane Ida. Entergy Louisiana has said the damages from 2020 hurricanes is two-point-one billion dollars and Ward says Entergy and Cleco are still tabulating Ida damages