Just over two weeks left in the legislative session, and several bills aimed at bringing down Louisiana’s extremely high auto insurance rates are nearing final legislative passage. Before taking a break for the Memorial Day holiday weekend, the State Senate approved several tort reform bills. Senate Insurance Chairman Kirk Talbot says among them is a medical transparency bill…
But Alexandria Senator Jay Luneau is not a believer that tort reform legislation is the answer to lower auto insurance rates…
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Another bill nearing the governor’s desk would say if a driver is found to be 51-percent or more at fault for a wreck, he or she is not entitled to any damages in a civil lawsuit.
One public service commissioner says one big culprit of the New Orleans blackout could be massive cuts in federal staffing. Commissioner Davante Lewis says power companies anticipate how much electrical load they need based on that day’s weather forecast; and lately, forecasts from the National Weather Service have been well off.
Lewis is blaming the inaccurate forecasting on the DOGE cuts that President Trump and Elon Musk carried out this year.
The patriarch of “Duck Dynasty” has died. Phil Robertson passed away Sunday at the age of 79. Greg Hilburn is a reporter with USA Today who has gotten to know the Robertson family very well. He says he will never forget the time when he was a kid when he asked for Robertson’s autograph when he was a quarterback for Louisiana Tech.