9:30 LRN Newscast November 5

Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says homeowners could see about a ten-percent increase in their home insurance premiums because of the billions of dollars in damages created by the five named storms that made landfall in Louisiana this year. Donelon says that’s what we saw after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and it took three to four years for the market to settle. So, will that happen again????
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A new group called Louisiana Women Lead wants to see more conservative females running for political office. Executive Director Renee Amar says many females lack guidance on how to enter the political ring, but they are working to make it easier…
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Louisiana Women Lead is holding an online event tomorrow to recruit right-centered women for office. Go to Louisiana-Women-Lead-dot-org.

The 2020 college football season was in jeopardy this past summer after reports of myocarditis being linked to COVID-19. But an LSU Health New Orleans study shows COVID attacking the heart is not as prevalent as once thought. Professor Richard Vander Heide…
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Vander Heide says he and a colleague at John Hopkins collected data from autopsy cases of individuals who died from COVID-19 in nine different countries.

We continue to wait on a winner to be decided in the presidential election. The Trump campaign has filed lawsuits in three states over concerns that some absentee ballots are not being counted properly. Tulane Law Professor Stephen Griffin says even if the courts oppose this initial wave of lawsuits it is likely this election will end up being very litigious…
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