An attorney in New Iberia, LA running for District Court Judge for Division ‘H’ in the 16th Judicial District is under investigation for her alleged role in an auto insurance fraud scheme.

Dozens of staged accidents. Scores of hustlers. Millions of dollars paid to settle fraudulent lawsuits with fake injury claims.

Insurance industry analysts estimate storm damage from Hurricane Zeta in Louisiana could cost between $1.7 billion and $2.8 billion in repairs. Analytics business CoreLogic estimated that when storm damage in Mississippi and Alabama are factored in Hurricane Zeta caused $3.5 billion in destruction.

Toyota expanded a worldwide fuel pump recall to a total of 5.84 million vehicles for a defect that could cause the part to fail. In the United States, the total number of vehicles involved in this safety recall is now approximately 3.34 million vehicles.

Hurricane Zeta plowed quickly across the Coast on Wednesday evening, felling trees, flooding neighborhoods and Biloxi casino garages, shoving boats onto the beach highway, drowning at least one person and leaving thousands without power.

Hurricane Zeta was poised to crash into Louisiana on Wednesday with a “life-threatening storm surge” and winds that will reach far inland, the state’s sixth lashing this year from a Gulf Coast storm.

As if Hurricanes Laura and Delta were not enough, many in Southwest Louisiana now feel they are suffering another storm as they try to get fair payment from their insurance companies.

As floodwaters from Hurricane Delta receded from this city, the largest in southwestern Louisiana to be severely hit by two hurricanes in six weeks, residents and city officials on Sunday were still surveying the damage of compounding crises — and wondering how much federal help they can count on.

Hurricane Delta is gaining strength and size over the Gulf of Mexico as it takes aim for the Louisiana coast, which is still recovering from a powerful Category 4 storm six weeks ago that ripped houses from their foundations, peeled off roofs and tore trailers in half.

Hurricane Delta, the 25th named Atlantic storm this year, is moving toward the Gulf of Mexico and expected to take aim at the U.S. Gulf Coast this week as a major hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said.

Newly formed Tropical Storm Delta could make landfall as a hurricane in the northern Gulf Coast later this week, forecasters warned, while Tropical Storm Gamma killed at least six people after coming ashore in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula over the weekend.

Tropical storm conditions will spread over the Texas coast on Monday as Tropical Storm Beta churns toward landfall, even as the storm is already bringing flooding to low-lying areas.

Louisiana and Mississippi residents were under evacuation orders on Monday as Tropical Storm Sally churned across the Gulf of Mexico and was strengthening to a hurricane, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Hurricane Laura survivors who are insurance policy holders were impacted by a new emergency rule by the Louisiana insurance commissioner which enables residents to file insurance claims during a situation when hundreds of thousands are still without electricity in Southwest Louisiana.

State Farm, the largest homeowner insurer in Louisiana by market share, has received 24,800 insurance claims from homeowners across the state after Hurricane Laura barreled through the Lake Charles region last week.