Property & Environmental Litigation

Nearly every week OCA receives one or more phone calls from concerned property owners relating to flooding or other water related events causing significant damage to their property. With climate change and global warming placing ever increasing burdens on our aging public infrastructure, these complaints are likely to continue and even increase. Indeed, OCA member Randall Smith (whose practice in…

Read about the Louisiana Court of Appeal’s opinion in the Lowenburg v. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans here: https://www.inversecondemnation.com/inversecondemnation/2020/08/construction-impacts-from-public-project-are-not-quality-of-life-general-damages-but-takings-requiri.html

Read more at NOLA.com: https://www.nola.com/news/politics/sewerage-water-board-reaches-2-million-settlement-for-uptown-drainage-work-damage/article_02ff5cd6-1b4c-5f4c-8894-f49052325c6b.html

Read more at The Advocate: https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/five-new-orleans-stores-to-receive-2-1m-from-s-wb-over-drainage-work-damage/article_1eb58adc-1c05-11e8-8c58-b3ff60f078c1.html

Watch the news video on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-0euoNunCA

Read more on NOLA.com: https://www.nola.com/news/environment/bellaire-drive-property-owners-win-round-in-lawsuit-over-17th-street-canal-work/article_a4554775-62db-5e96-a3e0-b3705faf2db2.html  

Read at NOLA.com: https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/colonial-country-club-loses-foreclosure-ruling-at-appeals-court/article_0b7e0212-58b9-5925-b4b7-9e72ec285c07.html

Watch video on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iy1wwFY5HU

Watch video on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4eO8aLKBKg