6:30 LRN Newscast December 2

State lawmakers held a day-long meeting yesterday discussing the slow process of getting insurance companies to pay claims on hurricane-damaged homes. Doug Quinn, executive director of the American Policyholder Association, says one tactic insurance providers are using is known as the churning of adjusters…
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The insurance industry says there are not enough local adjusters after a major storm passes through and so they need to bring in out-of-state adjusters.

St. Tammany Parish councilman Mike Lorino says the proposition on the December 11th ballot for a casino in Slidell would result in just one casino in the parish and any claims it would result in multiple casinos are not true..
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The Supreme Court’s six conservative justices indicated they would uphold Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban which could then limit abortions in Louisiana. Brooke Thorington has more.
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