Christie L. Laporte GRETNA – A workers' compensation insurer is suing a box manufacturer for medical benefits paid to a worker who was allegedly injured while handling one of their boxes.
NEW ORLEANS - A Chinese national has filed a Jones Act lawsuit against several Louisiana shipping companies after he was injured when a mooring line broke loose and struck him.
NEW ORLEANS - A whistleblower has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, claiming that he was terminated from his position after he complained about the company falsifying documents regarding oil tanks.
NEW ORLEANS - A survivor of a helicopter crash has filed a lawsuit for $12 million arguing that the crash was a result of an improperly maintained helicopter and a careless pilot.
The wife of a deceased Brown & Root worker claims her husband died due to exposure to radioactive material and has filed a lawsuit against the oil companies that had equipment cleaned at the Belle Chasse facility.
A former Alliance Refinery worker has filed a lawsuit that claims he was exposed to toxic levels of benzene while employed at the refinery and as a result he developed leukemia.
A Mississippi truck driver has filed a lawsuit against a Louisiana company after a forklift operator allegedly allowed a metal bar to roll off of the forklift and crush the man's leg.
A former security guard at the Alliance Refinery in Belle Chasse has filed a lawsuit against her employer after she was terminated following an on-the-job injury.
Four national construction companies have agreed to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a former employee of the Conoco Phillips facility in Belle Chasse for $110,000.
Van Dalen A community action group and an environmental group have filed a lawsuit against a waste disposal facility for allegedly allowing illegal open dumping of asbestos products and other hazardous materials.
Pivach A Plaquemines Parish resident has filed a lawsuit against a truck driver and the truck driver's employer seeking damages for pre-impact fright and mental anguish after the tractor-trailer rear-ended his vehicle.