NHTSA recorded 41 fatal crashes and 44 fatalities in Lincoln Parish from 2020 through 2024. Twelve of those fatal crashes, with 13 fatalities, were coded within Ruston. At the parish level, 24 of 41 fatal crashes occurred from 6:00 p.m. through 5:59 a.m., 23 were coded rural, and I-20 appeared in 13 records. The 2024 figures are provisional, and all of these are descriptive counts rather than findings of fault or risk rates.
Louisiana emotional-distress law depends on whose injury you claim. Learn the rules for your own injury, claims without physical harm, and bystanders.
A vocational counselor found you a job after a work injury. Learn how Louisiana evaluates restrictions, wages, suitable work, and disputed benefits.
Louisiana’s balloon-release rule took effect August 1, 2026. Act 196 added intentional balloon releases to the state’s intentional-littering provisions, subject to specific exceptions. It also addresses an organizer whose event includes a planned release of twelve or more balloons. The Legislature’s bill history confirms the effective date. The twelve-balloon threshold concerns organizers The act…
Louisiana generally protects a licensed bar and its employees from a claim based on serving alcohol to a customer of lawful purchase age who later causes an injury off the premises because of intoxication. That can prevent a claim against the bar even when its receipts and video are important evidence against the driver….
A hospital’s charge and the amount recoverable in an injury case can be different. For claims governed by Louisiana’s 2026 medical-expense rule, a contracted provider’s bill paid by health insurance or Medicare generally produces a claim for the amount paid plus the patient’s applicable cost sharing. The former addition of 40 percent of the…
An old refrigerator can trap a child if its door closes and cannot be opened from inside. Louisiana’s R.S. 14:324 addresses abandoned, unattended or discarded containers left outdoors where children can reach them. The statute’s removal requirement refers to the lock or the door in its snap-lock provision; its broader prohibition also covers airtight…
Louisiana Act 932 changes the defenses available to an insurer facing certain bodily-injury bad-faith claims. Its most difficult provision combines the absence of a settlement offer with an insurer having time to respond. The official digest describes that condition differently from the enacted text. That difference matters when deciding how to make an offer…
After a car accident in Ruston, start with medical help and a safe place to wait for responders. Once the immediate danger has passed, get the investigating agency’s name, preserve the original photographs and recordings, and notify your insurer. Those steps give you a usable record when questions about repairs, injuries, and fault arrive….
Workers’ compensation may be only the first part of an oilfield injury case. It can pay covered medical expenses and a portion of lost wages without requiring the worker to prove negligence. A separate claim may exist when another company, a defective product, or a driver outside the protected employment relationship helped cause the…
Louisiana has a statute written specifically for parade injuries. It protects qualifying parade organizations, members and some contractors from many ordinary-negligence claims, but it does not create blanket immunity. A claim may still turn on whether the defendant is within the protected group, what caused the injury, and whether the conduct was deliberate and…
A closed frozen daiquiri can fall outside Louisiana’s definition of an open alcoholic container. That is the legal distinction behind the familiar drive-through cup: the lid must be on, no straw may protrude, and none of the drink may have been removed. The rule addresses transporting the drink. A seller still has to comply…
A driver-facing camera may notice that someone has looked down at a phone and sound an alert before the vehicle drifts from its lane. Whether that warning prevents a crash depends on what the system detects, how quickly it responds, and whether the driver acts. Driver monitoring systems, or DMS, offer that extra chance…
Yes. Louisiana State Police reported that troopers inspected 26 commercial vehicles and issued 26 citations during an August 13, 2026 enforcement detail on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge. The citations were for disregarding traffic-control devices that require commercial vehicles to remain in the right lane. Troopers also identified four additional safety violations and placed one…
Meta smart glasses and similar wearable recording glasses are legal to own and use in Louisiana, but a new state law can require notice before a participant intentionally uses them to capture certain private, in-person conversations. The rule took effect August 1, 2026. It is narrower than an all-party consent law, and it does…