Facing a major blood shortage, Vitalant (vy-TALENT) is holding blood drives throughout the summer in Morgan City, Lafayette and the Baton Rouge area. Joe Gallinaro reports.
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Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says this year’s legislative session was a very productive one for his department. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Blood services provider Vitalant (vy-TALENT) is experiencing a critical shortage of type “O” blood that it has not seen in two years. Barley Juarez with Vitalant Blood Banking says they usually experience blood shortages this time of year.
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Juarez says they especially need type “O” blood, especially “O”-negative.
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“O”-positive donations will also come in very handy, since Juarez says that can be given to anyone with any positive blood type, and 85-percent of all Americans have a positive blood type.
There are several blood drives taking place this summer in the Morgan City, Lafayette and Baton Rouge areas, and Juarez says for a limited time, there are thank you gifts for everyone who donates blood at these blood drives.
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Furthermore, from July 9th through August 8th, donors will be automatically entered to win a car, valued at up to 30-thousand dollars.
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For 100 dollars, you can purchase a one-in-two-thousand chance to win the sports fan’s ultimate dream-come-true – season tickets to nearly every major sporting event in South Louisiana for an entire year! New Orleans Sports Foundation President and CEO Jay Cicero says the money raised goes to a very important cause.
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Cicero says this comes at a time when New Orleans faces increasing competition from more cities across the country.
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Cicero says only two-thousand raffle tickets will be sold, and the one winning ticket drawn will receive more than 500 tickets to some of the biggest sporting events in the state.
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Also included are tickets to the Sugar Bowl, the New Orleans Bowl, the Zurich Classic and more. To enter, visit gnosports.com/win.
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Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple says this year’s legislative session was a very productive one for the Department of Insurance. For starters, Temple is hailing a new law that allows the department to take action against people who are working without a license.
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Temple says the new law gives the department more leeway to start investigations on people in the business of insurance who are accused of committing insurance fraud.
Temple says another new law increases the annual aggregate limit of fines his office can issue, noting that the old caps were ten-thousand dollars for insurance professionals and 100-thousand dollars for insurance companies and PBMs.
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Temple says another law that the legislature passed is more or less a pre-emptive one which protects those who “bundle and save.”
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