Louisiana's insurance commissioner's race may be the most contested campaign outside of the governor's race after Republican Tim Temple invested $1 million of his own money to challenge four-term incumbent Republican Jim Donelon.
Scandal-free Republican statewide incumbents are generally considered bullet-proof in Louisiana, but as one GOP campaign consultant said during qualifying, "You have to take anybody who's willing to spend $1 million on a down-ballot race seriously." Read more...
A local attorney has filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court against several national law firms in connection with the 2010 BP oil spill.
The suit, filed May 13 in U.S. District Court in New Orleans by Thibodaux attorney Jerald Block, seeks to recover damages for breach of contract, professional malpractice and fraud caused by several law firms that represented victims of the Deepwater Horizon disaster and resulting oil spill. Read more...
A local attorney has filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court against several national law firms in connection with the 2010 BP oil spill.
The suit, filed May 13 in U.S. District Court in New Orleans by Thibodaux attorney Jerald Block, seeks to recover damages for breach of contract, professional malpractice and fraud caused by several law firms that represented victims of the Deepwater Horizon disaster and resulting oil spill. Read more...