Lawsuit reform is expected to dominate the upcoming session and the National Federation of Independent Business is backing this year’s effort to lower the jury trial threshold to 15,000 dollars. NFIB State Director Dawn Starns says Louisiana’s 50,000 dollar jury trial threshold is the highest in the nation, and that policy emboldens plaintiffs to file more lawsuits, and demand higher damages against businesses.
A Holden teen is dead and four others badly hurt following a crash on US Highway 190 in Livingston Parish early Sunday morning. State Police Trooper Taylor Scrantz says a single cab pickup truck carrying five people was eastbound when for unknown reasons, it ran off the road to the right and struck a tree, killing one person…
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Raymond played basketball for Holden High School.
Governor John Bel Edwards says rural communities are in a crisis and that’s why he created the Governor’s Advisory Council on Rural Revitalization. Edwards announced the formation of the Council at the Police Jury’s annual convention. The governor says rural revitalization will be a focus during his next four years in office…
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Former Bogalusa senator Ben Nevers will serve as chairman of the Council that will have 34 members.
28-year-old Cameron Harville of Natchitoches died after striking a home along LA Highway 494 and being ejected from his car. State Police Trooper Casey Wallace says the vehicle was traveling eastbound on 494 when it left the road for an unknown reason and careened into the private residence early this morning.