If you are injured while working at sea or on a ship, you may be entitled to file a claim for personal injury damages if your employer or the ship owner’s negligence contributed to your injury. However, pursuing such a claim has its own complexities. This article will explore the key considerations, including: How to protect your employment when filing [...]
While personal injury law is often associated with car and truck accidents, in Louisiana, we cannot overlook another significant source of injuries: our waterways. Whether it’s our lakes, rivers, or the Gulf of Mexico, accidents on the water can lead to serious injuries. If you’ve been hurt on the water in Louisiana, this article will walk you through the basics [...]
If you’ve been injured due to someone else’s negligence in New Orleans, Louisiana personal injury law allows you to seek compensation. However, understanding whether you have a valid claim, how to move forward with it, and what kind of compensation you might receive can be confusing. This article will explain key terms and concepts in personal injury law, including: Liability: [...]
In keeping with WWG’s commitment to protect the people and places we love, WWG has joined the effort of national environmental groups like the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and others to challenge certain environmental rollbacks pushed by the former presidential administration and to support sound policies to assess ways to prevent damage from unchecked oil and gas drilling. [...]
A company that reclaims oil refinery waste may be required to identify the pollutants it wants to dump into the Intracoastal Waterway in West Baton Rouge Parish after the Supreme Court declined this week to hear an appeal from a lower court. The Intracoastal supplies drinking water to 10,000 people in nearby Iberville Parish and additional businesses. It ultimately flows [...]
Thermaldyne is a new facility that reclaims oil from materials that are, in all but name, industrial hazardous waste. It applied to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) for a permit to discharge the water that is leftover into the Intracoastal Canal, directly upstream of the intake for the drinking water of about 10,000 Iberville Parish residents. Its application [...]
