The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry is reaching out to auto insurance companies who are not writing policies in Louisiana to let them know about changes made to the state’s civil litigation system. LABI president Stephen Waguespack says it will only take a handful of companies to start writing new business to lower rates…
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The Louisiana Workforce Commission is beginning the process of having to borrow money from the federal government to replenish the state’s unemployment trust fund. There’s currently 245-million in the fund. It had over one-billion dollars before the pandemic. L-W-C Secretary Ava Dejoie says the state will have to impose a solvency tax on businesses to pay back the loan…
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The state Revenue Department says they’ve received 240-thousand applications for the 250-dollar payment that’s going out to front line workers who had to work during the governor’s stay at home order. But Revenue Secretary Kimberly Robinson says there is a problem with many of the applications…
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Robinson says they’ve also received 208 applications from people who are dead.

Based on the latest data from the state department of health, Louisiana continues to show signs it’s seeing a decline in coronavrius cases after experiencing a second surge in June and July. State health officier Doctor Jimmy Guidry on why we saw a second surge….
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The state reported 77 more COVID-19 deaths over the weekend.