| BY CHAD CALDER | Staff writer |
Thanks for starting your day with Morning Headlines. Here are some of our top stories. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple laid out a series of changes to state insurance regulations that would allow insurers to raise rates more easily, increase profits and self-report some violations in an effort to help steady the floundering market. It's all part of the new commissioner's effort to help stabilize the insurance market, though it is likely to see some pushback in the legislature and from consumer advocates. Proposed laws that would resume and expand the death penalty, eliminate parole and good-behavior credits, publicize youth court records, roll back post-conviction pleas and allow for the permitless concealed carry of handguns continue to move through the Louisiana legislature. You'll find the latest here. That Jefferson Parish inmate on the run since pepper spraying a deputy and escaping from behind a West Bank hospital Sunday night? Michelle Hunter has the latest details and more on why he was in jail to begin with. Check out all the latest news, sports and entertainment coverage from The Times-Picayune. Chad | 