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House OKs Landry-backed insurance bill
Opponents say measure will drive insurers out of the state BY TYLER BRIDGES Staff writer
Over the strong objections of Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple and the insurance industry, the House deferred to Gov. Jeff Landry and gave final passage to a bill Tuesday that he says will make it harder for insurance companies to raise rates. Temple objects because he says the measure, House Bill 148, will allow the insurance commissioner to reject rate increases without justification. That, he adds, will discourage companies from investing in Louisiana, and the
Gov. Jeff Landry says legislation passed Tuesday by the House will make it harder for companies to raise car insurance rates.
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quire insurance companies to reveal rate-setting information that has been secret. National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, which represents ä Legislature approves bill to ban 38% of the insurance market share in Louisiana, wrote in a letter to the kratom. PAGE 6A governor Tuesday that the provision is so bad that it will outweigh any of reduction in competition will make it the measures passed this year and last harder to keep rates down — the op- year by Landry and legislators that they said would hold down property posite of what Landry says. Allstate and State Farm officials met and car insurance rates. The bill is “likely to decrease compeprivately with the governor to express their opposition to a provision added ä See INSURANCE, page 4A in the Senate late May 21 that will re-
N.O. officials plan for busy 2025 hurricane season
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More than 100K in La. could lose Medicaid
House bill requires 80 hours a month of work to qualify BY EMILY WOODRUFF Staff writer
Tucked inside the “big, beautiful bill” recently advanced by the U.S. House is a first-ever federal work requirement for Medicaid recipients. Starting at the end of 2026, the legislation would require that most childless adults document 80 hours a month of work, school or volunteering before they can enroll in the government health insurance program for people with limited incomes. The Congressional Budget Office projects the change would save about $280 billion over six years. In Louisiana, however, it could also knock 139,000 to 158,000 adults off Medicaid in the first
ä See MEDICAID, page 5A
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A damaged car in downtown New Orleans lies amid debris two days after Hurricane Ida struck in August 2021.
Katrina’s legacy and a series of more recent explosive hurricanes are guiding preparedness BY JAMES FINN Staff writer
As New Orleans officials brace for yet another potent hurricane season, stockpiling supplies and holding briefings with federal and state partners, the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is looming large — underscored by lessons drawn from recent, explosive storms in the Gulf of Mexico. Officials from Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration, local and state law enforcement and federal agencies on Tuesday laid out how New Orleans is preparing for what forecasters say will be another particularly active season, highlighting how Katrina has changed the calculus.
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“It’s not lost on me that the lessons that we’ve learned from Katrina have shaped how we prepare, respond and recover,” Collin Arnold, New Orleans’ top emergency official, said during a briefing Tuesday on the city’s hurricane plan. “It’s the heart, 20 years later, of how we prepare for hurricanes.” At the core of the city’s plan is a network of sites comprised of recreation centers, libraries and the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, said Arnold, the city’s Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness director, on Tuesday. Officials are ready to spring into action to stock those sites with supplies from a new emergency warehouse in the light-industrial area along Earhart Boulevard. City officials are still hammering out details about who will be eligible to seek shelter at those facilities when a storm hits, and at what phase of a storm’s arrival they should head there.
ä See HURRICANE, page 4A
“It’s not lost on me that the lessons that we’ve learned from Katrina have shaped how we prepare, respond and recover. It’s the heart, 20 years later, of how we prepare for hurricanes.” COLLIN ARNOLD, New Orleans’ Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness director
Nuclear plant shutdown timing raises questions about blackout BY SAM KARLIN Staff writer
Elected officials homed in Tuesday on the timeline of events that led to an abrupt order of forced blackouts on Sunday in Louisiana, prompting Entergy and Cleco to cut the lights to 100,000 residents in the New Orleans area amid hot, latespring temperatures. Regulators had previously pinned the outages, in part, on the unexpected shutdown of River Bend, a nuclear plant north of Baton Rouge. But Entergy and federal officials said Tuesday that
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ä See BLACKOUT, page 6A
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