re: Mandeville’s Richard Nelson joins the governor’s race

Nelson is also hell-bent on lowering Car Insurance rates: LINK I guess they'll throw rocks at him for this too.

"Louisianans pay roughly $2,200 each year to cover their cars, second only to Michigan. "

"The bill aims to discourage lawsuits, primarily by putting more car accident cases in front of juries" [instead of judges].

Louisiana has a one-of-a-kind judicial system that’s prompted prominent business leaders to call the state a ‘hellhole.’ Republicans argue that adopting more common rules for lawsuits would lead to more common insurance rates.

“The average person in Louisiana pays twice as much as they should for car insurance,” Rep. Richard Nelson, R-Mandeville, said. “This omnibus bill looks at what every other state in the nation does differently... a corollary of average laws is average premiums."