State investigators are looking into the deaths of four nursing home patients who were among the hundreds of nursing home residents sent to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish as Hurricane Ida was racing towards Louisiana. The warehouse had 843 patients, when capacity called for no more than 350, so it made for some difficult conditions inside. Independence Police Chief Frank Edwards says an investigation will determine why this happened, but something led to this terrible situation…
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Governor Edwards is calling for a full investigation.

These nursing home deaths bring the death toll from Ida in Louisiana to nine. Edwards remains concerned about heat-related death as the clean-up continues…
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Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says if your property sustained wind damage from Hurricane Ida file your claim sooner, rather than later. Donelon says the state’s Named Storm Deductible law (letting your insurer collect 2-to-5 percent of your assessed value often discourages people from filing…
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Donelon says even if your Named Storm Deductible is higher than your assessed damage, it counts against any possible future claims this year, and can only be assessed once a year.

Entergy believes much of the New Orleans area will see power return by Wednesday. Damage assessments continue on the coast and in the immediate path of the storm, so specific restoration times are still not known for Terrebonne, Lafourche and lower Jefferson Parish. Entergy’s Deanna Lafont says Ida damaged 12-hundred poles in Lafourche…
cut 8 (11) “….people get power”