Latest Oklahoma Headlines
All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Okla. House Committee Approves Republicans’ Lawsuit Reform Bill
Mar 9 2006 // The Oklahoma House of Representatives Judiciary Committee approved House Bill 3120, the Common Sense in the Courtroom Act, which was proposed by the House Republican leadership. The bill now goes to the full House for a...
Oklahoma Senate Votes Against Democrats’ Lawsuit Reform Bill
Mar 8 2006 // The Oklahoma Senate defeated by a vote of 21-25 Senate Bill 1874, which was authored and introduced by the Senate’s Democrat leadership as a lawsuit reform bill. All 21 Republican senators present, joined by four...
Okla. House Committee Approves Bill Protecting Charities
Mar 8 2006 // Legislation that would protect charities from frivolous lawsuits and eliminate the need for those groups to purchase costly liability insurance passed the Oklahoma House Judiciary committee. House Bill 2477, by State Rep....
Health Insurance Plan for Small Business Passed in Okla.
Mar 6 2006 // A bill to expand a program that provides subsidies to cover much of the health insurance costs of employees of small businesses won approval Mar. 2 in the Oklahoma Senate. In other action, senators passed a bill to cut...
Oklahoma City’s North American Group Acquires Davis Duke
Mar 6 2006 // North American Group reported it has purchased Oklahoma City, Okla.-based Davis Duke & Co. Insurance Agency. The employees of Davis Duke have relocated to the North American Group’s Oklahoma City...
Okla. Commissioner: More than $8M in AmCare Funds to be Distributed
Mar 3 2006 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced she has successfully petitioned the Oklahoma County District Court for an early distribution of funds to Oklahomans defrauded or owed money by now defunct AmCare Health...
Okla. Bill Seeks Protection for 9-1-1 Dispatchers Against Lawsuits
Mar 2 2006 // Legislation protecting emergency medical dispatchers from lawsuits has passed the Oklahoma House Appropriations and Budget Committee. The House of Representatives reported that House Bill 2879, by State Representatives...
Holland Seeks Four Years as Okla.’s Insurance Chief
Feb 27 2006 // Kim Holland, appointed by Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry as state insurance commissioner a year ago, formally announced Feb. 23 that she will run for a full four-year term. Her announcement came two days after her predecessor,...
Former Okla. Firefighter Sentenced for Embezzling Insurance Fund
Feb 27 2006 // A former Bartlesville, Okla., firefighter received a five-year prison term for embezzling $166,653 from the firefighters union insurance fund to use to pay for gambling, the Associated Press reported. Washington County...
Guns Missing From Oklahoma Museum Not Insured
Feb 27 2006 // Officials aren’t sure whether Oklahoma taxpayers will have to pay for uninsured weapons that are missing from a famous state gun museum. The J.M. Davis Arms & Historical Museum is covered by insurance but the...
Okla. Commissioner Explains Changes at Insurance Department
Feb 23 2006 // Stringent new ethics rules and the elimination of patronage should limit questions about staff integrity at the scandal-plagued Oklahoma Insurance Department, Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland said in an...
Okla. Senate GOP Claims Democrats Aided Lawyers in Tort Reform Battle
Feb 23 2006 // Oklahoma Senate Republicans are playing hardball, claiming in a news release that trial lawyers won an early victory in the legislative lawsuit reform battle with the help of Democrat “allies” in the state...
‘Dangerous Dog’ Bill Moves Out of Okla. House Committee
Feb 23 2006 // Owners of dangerous dogs in Oklahoma could soon face much harsher penalties if their animals attack another person if a measure passed in the House Health and Human Services Committee makes it through the full legislative...
Former Oklahoma Commissioner Sentenced to Three Years, $20,000 Fine
Feb 21 2006 // Oklahoma County District Judge Susan Caswell formally sentenced former Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher to three consecutive years imprisonment and ordered him to pay a $20,000 fine, Attorney General Drew...
Fisher convicted on embezzlement, perjury charges
Feb 20 2006 // An Oklahoma County jury on Feb. 8, 2006, found former Oklahoma Insurance Commis-sioner Carroll Fisher guilty on one count each of embezzlement and perjury. The 12-member panel, which deliberated about two hours after less...
Fisher convicted on embezzlement, perjury charges
Feb 19 2006 // An Oklahoma County jury on Feb. 8, 2006, found former Oklahoma Insurance Commis-sioner Carroll Fisher guilty on one count each of embezzlement and perjury. The 12-member panel, which deliberated about two hours after less...
Okla. Committee OKs Small Business Employee Health Insurance Bill
Feb 17 2006 // Hoping to reduce the number of uninsured Oklahomans, a state House of Representatives committee voted to provide financial incentives to businesses that contribute to employee health insurance premiums. House Bill 2463, by...
Lawsuit Reform on Minds of Okla. Legislators During Current Session
Feb 15 2006 // As predicted, lawsuit reform is turning out to be the focus of the Oklahoma Legislature during the current session. In the Oklahoma Senate a comprehensive lawsuit reform bill, sponsored by a Democratic passed out of the...
Okla. Lawmaker Says Fisher Conviction Shows Need for Ethics Reform
Feb 14 2006 // Former Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher’s conviction on campaign-related charges of embezzlement and perjury demonstrate the necessity of stronger ethics laws in Oklahoma, according to State Rep. Ryan McMullen...
Former Okla. Commissioner Convicted on Embezzlement, Perjury Charges
Feb 10 2006 // An Oklahoma County jury on Feb. 8 found former Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher guilty on one count each of embezzlement and perjury. The 12-member panel, which deliberated about two hours after less than two...
