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Limestone Panels Fall 22 Floors Oklahoma City Street; Cars Damaged
Jan 10 2018 // Engineers are investigating why five limestone panels that had been attached to the building being renovated in downtown Oklahoma City came loose and fell 22 floors to the street below. No one was injured when the panels...
Ex-Employee of Oklahoma Nonprofit Ordered to Pay $3M in Embezzlement Scheme
Jan 9 2018 // A former accountant for the Oklahoma Beef Council has been sentenced for embezzling nearly $2.7 million from the nonprofit. Melissa Day Morton, 46, was ordered to pay $3 million in restitution, The Oklahoman reported. The...
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Jan 8 2018 // Oklahoma City-based independent insurance agency, INSURICA, has named Mark Bridges to lead its Texas operations as regional president. Bridges is currently the president of INSURICA DFB Insurance Services Inc. (formerly...
Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Commission Aims for Clarity with Organizational Changes
Jan 8 2018 // The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC) has updated its organizational chart and changed the names of an internal division and a working group. The commission reported that the changes reflect an effort...
Rockingham Group, FarmAssure Launch Oklahoma Farmowners Insurance Program
Jan 5 2018 // The Rockingham Group has partnered with Edmond, Oklahoma-based FarmAssure LLC to offer a Farmowners Insurance Program in Oklahoma. This partnership will offer farm, ranch, and country home insurance in the...
I Heard There Might Be Opportunity “In-Land”
Jan 4 2018 // “According to CoreLogic, a leading source for flood and disaster risk data, approximately 70 percent of the flood damage from Hurricane Harvey was uninsured….” states Clearsurance in their recently...
Oklahoma’s Mid-Continent to Acquire Tank Owner Members Insurance Renewal Rights
Jan 4 2018 // Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Mid-Continent Group, a member of Great American Insurance Group, has completed a renewal rights agreement with Tank Owner Members Insurance Company (TOMIC) to acquire TOMIC’s book of...
Oklahoma’s Howell-Stone Insurance Joins Rich & Cartmill
Jan 3 2018 // Howell-Stone Insurance Inc., based in Oklahoma City, has joined Tulsa, Oklahoma-headquartered Rich & Cartmill Inc., effective Jan. 1, 2018. The affiliation will combine the strengths of both organizations to allow Rich...
Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Commission Makes Organizational Changes
Jan 2 2018 // The Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC) has updated its organizational chart and changed the names of an internal division and a working group. The commission reported that the changes reflect an effort to more...
Oklahoma School District Sued Over Aide’s Alleged Molestation of 15 Girls
Dec 29 2017 // An Oklahoma school and its board of directors are being sued on behalf of 15 girls who say they were molested by a teacher’s aide. The federal lawsuit filed last week in Oklahoma City seeks unspecified damages from...
Oklahoma Supreme Court Overturns Ruling in Liquor Tax Lawsuit
Dec 28 2017 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that hundreds of restaurants in the state overcharged customers for mixed drinks. Lawsuits filed in 2011 by Tom Erbar and John Truel alleged restaurants...
Number of Strong Earthquakes in Oklahoma Continues to Decline
Dec 28 2017 // Regulators and scientists say the number of 3.0 magnitude or stronger earthquakes in Oklahoma is declining. The Oklahoma Geological Survey reports the number of quakes of at least that magnitude during 2017 was 294 through...
Tracking System Could Speed OK for Drone Deliveries in U.S.
Dec 21 2017 // Deliveries by drones took a step closer to being allowed in the U.S. after a federal advisory panel agreed on a framework for allowing law enforcement to routinely track the small devices. The committee’s report to...
Oklahoma Supreme Court Strikes Down State’s New Drunk Driver Law
Dec 20 2017 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that a new drunken-driving law that created a new program for first-time DUI offenders and abolished the appeals process for those trying to keep their licenses after a DUI arrest is...
Lemonade OK’d to Offer Insurance in Arkansas
Dec 20 2017 // Insurtech company, Lemonade, has received a Certificate of Authority to do business in Arkansas. Lemonade Insurance Co. has been approved to sell property, casualty and marine products in Arkansas with an initial limit to...
Sommer Named Interim Executive Director at Oklahoma WCC as Bailey Departs
Dec 13 2017 // The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC) announced that Executive Director Kim Bailey has resigned and Administrative Law Judge Patricia Sommer has been appointed to lead the agency in the interim. Bailey...
Northern Oklahoma Rattled by 2 Quakes, 1 a Magnitude 4.2
Dec 6 2017 // Two earthquakes, including one given a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 have been recorded in northern Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey reports the quake struck just before 10:30 p.m. near Stillwater, about 65 miles (105...
La Nina Adds to Wildfire Threat in South Central, Plains States
Dec 4 2017 // Conditions are ripe for winter wildfires from the mid-South through the Great Plains thanks to a combination of weather factors, including the climate phenomenon known as La Nina, that have left a lot of dry growth. In...
Drone Prompts Diversion of Arkansas Wildfire Surveillance Plane
Dec 1 2017 // Forestry officials diverted a surveillance plane from its assigned path because a drone hovered above a northern Arkansas wildfire, prompting them to caution people that airborne efforts to take unique photographs endanger...
San Francisco Supervisors OK Rules for Recreational Pot Stores
Nov 30 2017 // Following weeks of emotional and detailed debate over where to allow new stores, San Francisco supervisors approved regulations for the sale of recreational marijuana when it becomes legal in California in January. The San...
