According to WBRZ, a homeowner is having trouble with her insurance company, which tells her it won't release her supplemental insurance money without an itemized receipt. There's only one problem: the person who might have that receipt is behind bars.Vanessa Clymer says it's been a year-long battle and she can't get her insurance company, ASI, [...]
According to WAFB, a daycare center is being investigated after a 9-month old boy was bitten over 30 times by a two-year-old child in the same daycare center. The mother of the 9-month old told the news that the bite marks looks as if her baby “was attacked by an animal.” The daycare center employees [...]
According to WBRZ, Wells Fargo says a company mistake contributed to hundreds of foreclosures because it miscalculated customers' eligibility for mortgage modifications. The bank said in a filing Friday the error caused about 625 customers to be denied, or not offered, loan modifications they otherwise qualified for. Foreclosures were completed in about 400 of the [...]
According to WBRZ, the U.S. Senate has passed a four-month re-authorization of the National Flood Insurance program. The re-authorization protects more than 500,000 properties across Louisiana. The re-authorization ensures the program will run through the remainder of the 2018 hurricane season. “With this extension in place, we can tackle long-term reforms. The last time we [...]
"The Need to Know" During Recalls and Outbreaks - Advice from a Friend Our friend and colleague Bill Marler recently posted a great article on what consumers need to know during recalls and outbreaks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that Salmonella causes about 1.2 million illnesses and 450 deaths in the [...]
We Louisianans know that Mother Nature can quickly destroy property. For that reason, many of us wisely find the appropriate type of insurance to cover unexpected events. But what happens if that bad day comes, and for one reason or another the insurance company, whom you have paid all of your hard-earned premiums to, decides [...]
Most states have laws that require drivers to have a minimum threshold of liability insurance. Liability insurance covers a driver for damages or injures the he or she causes in a car accident. Per Louisiana Revised Statute § 32:900, the minimum liability coverage limits are $15,000 per person, $30,000 of bodily injury coverage per accident, [...]
In April, Vincent Piazza Jr. & Sons Seafood Inc. filed suit against a former employee in the 24th Judicial District Court in Gretna, Louisiana, alleging breach of contract and fraud. According to the claim, the plaintiff hired the defendant in 2002 as a sales supervisor and manager. The defendant was arrested for obscenity in 2018, [...]
WBRZ reported a 45-year-old Raceland woman was arrested after striking multiple juveniles with her vehicle while reportedly impaired Friday evening. According to Louisiana State Police, Troopers responded to a single-vehicle crash involving five pedestrians on Island Road south of LA 665 around 6:00 p.m. The impaired driver was reportedly traveling south on Island Road in [...]
According to WBRZ, two people are dead after a crash caused by a 14-year-old driver. Shortly before 2 a.m. Monday, March 23, Louisiana State Police began investigating a two-vehicle fatal crash. The crash occurred on LA 74 west of US 61 in Ascension Parish. According to a release, 42-year-old Robert Stafford and his passenger 45-year-old [...]