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NFIB Victories in Louisiana

  • June 7, 2012

    During the 2012 session of the Legislation, NFIB/Louisiana helped pass bills to:


    • Increase transparency in health insurance rates and increases. We fought hard to give small business owners and their agents access to the information they need to understand the cost of medical coverage.
    • Opened up the process so more small businesses can bid on government contracts.
    • Reform the state public pension system. With $18.5 billion dollars in unfunded accrued liability, the state desperately needed to change how it pays retirement benefits for our state workers. Legislation supported by NFIB/Louisiana and passed by the Legislature would save taxpayers $500 million a year.
    • Overhaul workers' comp by requiring that the rules be applied fairly in court rather than in favor of one party over another and establishing a procedure for payors and injured workers to correct errors or disputes over the calculation of benefits due without having to go to court.

    NFIB/Louisiana helped defeat bad legislation that would have:


    • Required all employers grant leave to local elected officials.
    • Expanded whistleblower protection laws, allowing many more reasons why an employee could sue an employer.
    • Opened small-business owners to liability in situations where they had an excluded driver on their automobile insurance policy.
    • Allowed suits against anyone who does business with the state, subjecting them to defend against multiple lawsuits filed by enterprising plaintiff attorneys.
    • Created a new cause of action for alleged job discrimination and allowed plaintiffs to recover the amount of unpaid wages and an additional amount of one-half of unpaid wages in liquidated damages as well as reasonable attorney fees and costs.
    • Authorized the state to file an antitrust action on behalf of any person who is injured in his business or property by any person, regardless of whether such person dealt directly or indirectly with the defendant, in any court, and to recover threefold the damages of the cost sustained by him, the cost of the suit and a reasonable attorney fee.