Report: LA’s Civil Justice System Costs State Billions
The American Tort Reform Association has ranked Louisiana the sixth-worst civil court jurisdiction in the country, making the state a top...
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- Nov 30, 2021
Louisiana Swamp Watch, publishes series on issues related to Louisiana coastal parish lawsuits
Louisiana Swamp Watch, a watchdog organization launched earlier this year, has been publishing a series of articles on issues related to...
- Nov 29, 2021
Critics cite concerns over oil-and-gas ‘credit schemes’ said to help environment
(The Center Square) – Forty-three lawsuits have been waged against more than 200 energy-related companies in Louisiana since 2013, and...
- Nov 18, 2021
They staged a crash with a bus for $677K payout, feds say. Now another pleads guilty
The wreck yielded several personal injury lawsuits and a $677,500 settlement for the four people who were riding in the sedan at the time...
- Nov 17, 2021
Brazen big-rig crash scheme nets another federal guilty plea in New Orleans
A 30-year-old New Orleans woman is the latest defendant to plead guilty in a brazen, years-long scheme to fill cars with willing...
- Sep 12, 2021
7 More Charged in Louisiana Staged Automobile Crash Schemes
Seven more defendants have been indicted in New Orleans for their alleged involvement in schemes to stage accidents with commercial...
- Jul 31, 2021
Letters: Given time, insurance rates will go down because of 2020 reforms of state law
The Civil Justice Reform Act of 2020 has been called the most relevant package of legal reforms in Louisiana since the 1990s. People...
- Jun 23, 2021
Two More Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Stage Automobile Accidents
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JAMES “CURTIS” WILLIAMS (“WILLIAMS”), age 66 of Gibson,...
- Jun 15, 2021
Two more plead guilty in New Orleans scheme to crash cars into big rigs for money
Two more defendants pleaded guilty Wednesday in a sprawling federal investigation into staged vehicle crashes into big rigs across the...
- Jun 15, 2021
Defendants from Orleans and Jefferson Parishes Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Stage Auto Accidents
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that DONIESHA GIBSON (“GIBSON”), age 29, of New Orleans,...
- May 24, 2021
Five More Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Stage Automobile Accidents in Order to Defraud Insurance and
Eastern District of Louisiana NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LOIS RUSSELL (“RUSSELL”), age...
- May 5, 2021
Garey Forster: Don't let trial lawyers create a Ponzi scheme for coastal lawsuits
Ponzi schemes didn’t die in prison with Bernie Madoff. Private plaintiffs’ attorneys, trial lawyers but not the typical billboard kind,...
- Feb 25, 2021
Second trucking firm files RICO lawsuit to recoup losses in staged accident
NEW ORLEANS – A second trucking company that was scammed during a wide-ranging conspiracy to stage traffic accidents has filed a federal...
- Feb 9, 2021
In staged accidents case, racketeering lawsuit is filed against New Orleans law firm
A New Orleans law firm and one of its members has been hit with a federal racketeering lawsuit over a series of truck wrecks that...
- Jan 25, 2021
‘Spotter’ in New Orleans Staged Crash Schemes Sentenced to Prison
A New Orleans, Louisiana, man has been sentenced to prison for conspiring to stage automobile accidents as part of a scheme to defraud...
- Dec 17, 2020
Four more guilty pleas in insurance scam at the center of 'Highway Robbery' investigation
NEW ORLEANS — Four more defendants pleaded guilty Thursday in the massive staged accident fraud case involving insurance fraud from...
- Dec 17, 2020
Four more admit staging $4.7 million vehicle accident in New Orleans
Four more defendants pleaded guilty Thursday in a conspiracy to stage a New Orleans vehicle accident for $4.7 million in insurance...
- Dec 14, 2020
New Orleans Judge Harry Cantrell to run out the clock on misconduct complaints: records
The Louisiana Supreme Court set up new rules this year to quell public criticism over its secretive system for disciplining judges...
- Dec 1, 2020
State Farm, cops believe judge candidate is insurance fraudster
An attorney in New Iberia, LA running for District Court Judge for Division ‘H’ in the 16th Judicial District is under investigation for...
- Nov 23, 2020
Attorney indicted, key witness murdered as FBI turns up the heat in Louisiana insurance fraud invest
NEW ORLEANS — Dozens of staged accidents. Scores of hustlers. Millions of dollars paid to settle fraudulent lawsuits with fake injury...
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