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By the Kean Miller Business Law Team

Many businesses in Louisiana are now assessing how Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita have affected and will continue to affect their contracts with clients, vendors, partners, and others. This article provides some general guidelines that businesses can use to determine if and how their contracts’ terms or Louisiana’s commercial law may affect contractual rights and obligations in light of the hurricanes.
Continue Reading Louisiana Contracts and the Doctrine of Impossibility

Click the links below to access important information on emergency orders from various Louisiana governmental and regulatory agencies: Posted September 28, 2005 – Louisiana Commissioner of Conservation Jim Welch issues memo regarding special exceptions due to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Posted September 28, 2005 – Emergency Occupation of Hotel and Motel Rooms : Katrina and…

The Louisiana Department of Revenue released a bulletin today relating to state treatment of Hurricane Katrina related federal tax relief.
Continue Reading Louisiana Department of Revenue Information Bulletin No. 05-018 — Louisiana Income Tax Treatment of IRS Relief for Disaster Victims

On September 2, 2005, Louisiana’s Governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, issued Executive Order No. KBB 2005-26. The order suspended all state licensure laws, rules and regulations for medical professionals and personnel from other states who offer medical services in Louisiana to those needing medical services as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
Continue Reading Louisiana Governor Revises Executive Order Suspending Licensure Requirements for Medical Professionals and Personnel

By the Kean Miller Health Law Team

The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”), published two bulletins on September 2, 2005 and September 9, 2005 to discuss the application of HIPAA in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The bulletins expressed the need for persons displaced by the hurricane to obtain ready access to health care and a means of contacting family and caregivers.
Continue Reading HIPAA Privacy and Disclosures in Emergency Situations

By the Kean Miller Construction Law Team

One of the Executive Orders enacted by Governor Kathleen Blanco in response to the disaster arising out of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding caused by the breaches of the levees around New Orleans is Executive Order KBB 2005-27. This Executive Order is captioned “Emergency Procedures for Conducting State Business”.
Continue Reading Emergency Procedures for Conducting State Business