Latest Oklahoma Headlines
All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oklahoma Mourns Loss of Former Assistant Insurance Commissioner Garrett
Nov 20 2013 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department is mourning the loss of former chief examiner and assistant commissioner, Stephen P. Garrett, 69, who died Nov. 18 after a brief hospitalization. “I have the highest level of...
Attorneys Argue Over Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Law
Nov 18 2013 // Oklahoma’s new workers’ compensation law violates the state Constitution in several ways and should be struck down, an attorney for two state lawmakers and a firefighter’s organization told a state...
Oklahoma Superior Court Referee Hears Workers’ Comp Case
Nov 15 2013 // Oklahoma’s new workers’ compensation law violates the state Constitution in several ways and should be struck down, an attorney for two state lawmakers and a firefighter’s organization told a state...
New Oklahoma Law Allows Seizure Of License Plates
Nov 14 2013 // Law enforcement officers in Oklahoma will soon have the option to seize license plates from uninsured drivers and assign temporary insurance under a new law passed this year by the Legislature. The law went into effect...
Oklahoma Man Pleads Guilty To Arson-Related Fraud
Nov 11 2013 // A Broken Arrow, Okla. man has pleaded guilty to a federal mail fraud charge that authorities say is related to an alleged arson at an east Tulsa self-storage facility. The Tulsa World reported that a plea agreement has...
Oklahoma City Hosts 3rd Annual National Tornado Summit
Nov 11 2013 // Insurance industry professionals, emergency managers, policymakers and weather experts are invited to attend the 3rd annual National Tornado Summit in Oklahoma City Feb. 10-11. The National Tornado Summit includes...
Oklahoma Lawmaker to Re-File Earthquake Insurance Bill
Nov 8 2013 // Following a rash of earthquakes, a state lawmaker says he plans to file a bill to require insurance companies to notify Oklahomans whether their policies cover property damage caused by earthquakes. Rep. Mike Shelton of...
As Exchange Opens Oklahoma City Chamber Drops Insurance
Nov 4 2013 // The Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce will no longer provide a health insurance offering that 1,400 companies in the state have been using. The chamber said the companies are going to have to look elsewhere for...
Court Says Oklahoma Tribe Immune from Dramshop Liability Lawsuit
Nov 4 2013 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court, reversing a previous ruling, says a family injured in a 2006 auto accident cannot sue the Peoria Tribe or its Buffalo Run Casino, where the other driver in the crash had been drinking. The...
Oklahoma Commissioner Urges Purchase of Earthquake Insurance
Oct 30 2013 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak is encouraging Oklahomans to purchase earthquake insurance after a new report predicts continued seismic activity in the central part of the state. The U.S. Geological Survey...
Court Says Oklahoma Tribe Immune from Dramshop Liability Lawsuit
Oct 29 2013 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court, reversing a previous ruling, says a family injured in a 2006 auto accident cannot sue the Peoria Tribe or its Buffalo Run Casino, where the other driver in the crash had been drinking. The...
Oklahoma City Firm to Receive $113M Insurance Payment from Blast
Oct 28 2013 // Oklahoma City-based LSB Industries Inc. will get a $113 million insurance payment after a May 2012 explosion damaged one of its chemical plants in south Arkansas. No one was injured in the blast at the El Dorado Chemical...
USGS: Quakes in Central Oklahoma Here to Stay
Oct 28 2013 // Prague, a central Oklahoma town of 2,400, claims two things as its own: Olympian Jim Thorpe and an annual kolache festival that honors its Czech heritage every May. Some locals here say the place should be known for a...
INSURICA Names Burton Oklahoma City Branch Manager
Oct 18 2013 // Insurance Management Network (INSURICA) has promoted Jeff Burton to the position of branch manager of its Oklahoma City office. Burton will be responsible for all aspects of the Oklahoma City operation including the...
Oklahoma AG’s Ballot Rewrite on School Storm Shelters Criticized
Oct 17 2013 // The attorney general’s rewrite of the ballot language for a plan to issue $500 million in bonds to help school districts pay for safe-room shelters is biased against the proposal and may be challenged in court, a...
Oklahoma Landowner Liability Bill Becomes Effective Nov. 1
Oct 16 2013 // Landowners in Oklahoma should be aware that a bill limiting liability for use of their privately owned airfields will become effective Nov. 1, state Rep. Mike Brown announced. Brown and state Sen. Sean Burrage authored...
Burnett Named Chief of Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Fraud Unit
Oct 16 2013 // Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has named longtime prosecutor George Burnett as the new chief of the Workers’ Compensation, Insurance, and Social Security Fraud Unit. The appointment was announced Oct....
Traffic Fatalities Down in Oklahoma
Oct 11 2013 // Through Oct. 7, Oklahoma recorded 491 traffic fatalities for 2013. The state was at 539 deaths at the same point last year. The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety says 58 people died in traffic crashes in August....
Oklahoma Investigation Leads to 12 Charges Against Former Agent
Oct 10 2013 // A former Tulsa, Okla., insurance agent with a prior conviction of embezzlement has now been charged with 11 counts of obtaining money by false pretense and one count of violation of the Oklahoma Producer License...
Tulsa, Oklahoma Plan Includes $3.4M for Flood Control
Oct 9 2013 // Flood prevention work is among the main projects included in Tulsa, Okla.’s proposed $917.8 million capital improvements package. The plan that goes to voters on Nov. 12 includes $3.4 million to assess and begin...
