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: [...]
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Attorneys for Mississippi Power Co. and the Sierra Club spent nearly four hours in a Harrison County courtroom on Friday arguing about whether the economics of the power company’s Kemper County lignite plant make sense right now. The Sierra Club is asking Chancery Court Judge Jim Persons to revoke the certificate the Mississippi Public Service Commission [...]
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. [...]
For the Harper and Salles families in St. Tammany Parish, the cypress swamp behind their homes is an idyllic outdoor playground for their children where they catch crawfish, throw out lines for catfish and splash around in Hickory Creek, a meandering stream that feeds into Old River and, eventually, the West Pearl. "A cypress swamp with that dark-brewed ice tea [...]
