The Louisiana city of Lafayette is the fourth largest in the state and home to over 250,000 citizens. Founded in 1821, the city is considered the center of Cajun culture and is home to a wide variety of restaurants that feature the famous Cajun cuisine. Bordering the Gulf Coast, Lafayette has classic Louisiana weather that features average high temperatures in the summer that can exceed 90 degrees. Home to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and their Ragin' Cajuns, the city also hosts a community college and two vocational schools. Boasting a fun and diverse nightlife and has a variety of destinations for tourists and locals alike including Downtown Lafayette, the Heymann Center for performing arts, the Mall of Acadiana and the Acadian Village, which is a reconstructed Cajun bayou community. Lafayette also hosts the Cajun Heartland State Fair, an eleven day state fair held at the Cajundome that celebrates a wide variety of facets associated with Cajun culture. The second largest Mardi Gras celebration in Louisiana is hosted in Lafayette and known as Le Festival de Mardi Gras a Lafayette.

As Lafayette falls within the Gulf Coast region, the city has seen its fair share of hurricanes and inclement weather. In 2008 Hurricane Gustav actually had its center go over Lafayette and the region faced a significant amount of storm damage and issues. With storm damage comes insurance claims and homeowners in the city and beyond faced delays and low payment offers from their insurance providers. When dealing with insurance companies and their consistently low offers, or even flat–out dismissals to claims, the Berniard Law Firm has found a variety of approaches that not only cover the unique traits of individual cases but also delve into all of the intricacies that overlap the wide variety of storm damage claims. As a result, our firm has become a trusted firm in Louisiana for those clients looking to get the financial consideration they deserve.

The Berniard Law Firm spend many hours in 2009 filing and pursuing claims made in class actions the firm filed with other attorneys against various companies that had violated their duties to customers and local citizens. Lafayette residents paid specific attention to the suit filed by the Berniard Law Firm and others against local cable provider Cox Communications. Alleging the cable giant is unfairly forcing customers to rent cable boxes from the company in order to enjoy all the services they are already paying for, the suit complains of illegal tying practices that violate federal antitrust provisions. The suit represents just one of the manners in which the Berniard Law Firm has played an active role in the lives of the citizens of Lafayette. Instead of focusing solely on personal injury or insurance dispute claims, our firm has worked to protect the rights of Lafayette citizens in a variety of facets that involve maintaining the law and fairness.

The Berniard Law Firm, by appointment, is always willing to meet in Lafayette with residents who have a legal claim in which they would like representation. Lafayette residents are urged to call our firm at 1–866–574–8005 or email lead attorney Jeffrey Berniard at jeffberniard@laclaim.com.