Get ready for some big numbers. Insured losses from the 2020 hurricane season in Louisiana – the year we had Laura, then Delta, then Zeta – total about $10.6-billion. That’s what insurers have paid or have in reserve to pay for still-to-be-determined claims. State Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says over 300-thousand claims were filed, with about 1800 formal complaints against insurance companies to his department field…:
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Entergy Louisiana will upscale its green power portfolio, but purchasing several hundred megawatts of solar power by 2024. Entergy’s resource planning director Jonathan Bourg…:
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Once approved by the state Public Service Commission, those solar plants will be in Allen, St. James and Washington parishes.
The state Department of Health today reports 495 new diagnosed cases of the coronavirus, with 231 persons hospitalized with COVID and only 36 statewide on ventilators. Thirteen deaths from COVID were reported today by LDH.
Centenary College in Shreveport has not had a football team since 1941, but that change will soon. Jeff Palermo has the story…:
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