Latest Oklahoma Headlines
All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oklahoma House Votes to Modernize Disaster Recovery System
Mar 8 2013 // Legislation to create a disaster recovery information website that is more accessible and that would allow multiple contributors including citizens wanting to document local damage has been approved by the Oklahoma House...
Oklahoma Senate OKs Executive Appointee Plan
Mar 7 2013 // The Oklahoma Senate has advanced a proposal that would allow voters to make the offices of state superintendent, insurance commissioner and labor commissioner gubernatorial appointments. In a statement released by the...
Oklahoma Speaker Eyes Ways to Make Workers’ Comp Bill ‘Stronger’
Mar 4 2013 // House Speaker T.W. Shannon says a Senate bill to overhaul Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system could undergo changes in the House. The Senate voted 34-12 for the Republican-backed bill on Feb. 27, mostly...
Oklahoma House Panel OKs Plan to Privatize CompSource
Mar 4 2013 // A plan to privatize Oklahoma’s not-for-profit workers’ compensation insurer has been approved by a House committee. A bill that would convert CompSource Oklahoma from a state entity to a private company owned...
Oklahoma Safety Officials Rally Behind Texting Ban
Mar 1 2013 // The mother of a teenager killed in a traffic accident while using a cell phone delivered a tearful plea to legislators on Feb. 27 to approve a bill that would ban texting while driving in Oklahoma. Gina Harris, whose...
GOP-Backed Workers’ Comp Plan Clears Oklahoma Senate
Mar 1 2013 // A Republican-backed plan to overhaul Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system has been approved by the state Senate, despite concerns that the cost savings in the bill come at the expense of those injured on the...
NTSB: Train Missed Signals Before Oklahoma Crash
Feb 28 2013 // One of two freight trains that collided in the Oklahoma Panhandle last summer, killing three workers and causing an inferno that nearly welded the locomotives together, sped past three signals warning it to slow down or...
Oklahoma Bill on Appointees Includes Insurance Commissioner Post
Feb 27 2013 // Oklahoma voters will decide whether to increase the governor’s appointment powers under a bill that sailed through a Senate committee, despite concern about consolidating too much power in the executive branch. The...
2nd Winter Storm in Days Blasts Central U.S.
Feb 27 2013 // The second major snowstorm in a week battered the nation’s midsection on Feb. 26, dropping a half-foot or more of snow across Missouri and Kansas and cutting power to thousands. Gusting winds blew drifts more than 2...
Hall Named Arkansas/Oklahoma Regional VP for Liberty Mutual
Feb 27 2013 // Ronald Hall has been appointed regional vice president for Liberty Mutual Insurance’s Arkansas/Oklahoma territory in the Southwest region of the company’s business insurance operations. Hall will be based in...
Month, Year Less Deadly for Oklahoma Drivers
Feb 25 2013 // The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety says fewer people were killed in auto accidents in January than the same month last year and the overall number of traffic deaths for the year is also down from a year ago. A...
People – Midwest
Feb 25 2013 // Richard J. Gergasko has been named president and chief executive officer of Texas Mutual Insurance Co. He will succeed Ron Wright, who has announced his retirement. Wright has served as president and CEO since 2009; he...
Workers’ Comp Tops Oklahoma Small-Business Agenda
Feb 25 2013 // Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb and Oklahoma business leaders rolled out their legislative agenda for small businesses and manufacturers on Feb. 12, citing workforce development and sweeping changes to the state’s workers’...
Oklahoma Agents Group Seeks Questions for Workers’ Comp Panel
Feb 21 2013 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma is requesting members to submit questions for a panel discussion on proposed changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system. IIAO will host a panel to discuss...
Oklahoma Panel Clears Prescription Drug Regulation Bill
Feb 21 2013 // Calling it a matter of public safety, a state lawmaker convinced an Oklahoma House committee to extend state oversight to companies that act as a middleman between pharmacies and people filling prescriptions through their...
Oklahoma Senate Panel Approves Workers’ Comp Change
Feb 20 2013 // A bill to convert Oklahoma’s Workers’ Compensation Court into an administrative system cleared its first hurdle and is now headed to the full Senate for consideration. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 8-2...
Bill Would Stop Oklahoma Insurance Department Use of Police Cars
Feb 20 2013 // A Senate panel has passed a bill that would prohibit the Oklahoma Insurance Department’s anti-fraud investigators from using police vehicles. The Senate General Government Committee voted unanimously for the bill by...
Workers’ Comp Tops Oklahoma Small-Business Agenda
Feb 15 2013 // Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb and Oklahoma business leaders rolled out their legislative agenda for small businesses and manufacturers on Feb. 12, citing workforce development and sweeping changes to the state’s workers’...
Oklahoma Governor: Audit of Insurance Department not Needed
Feb 14 2013 // Oklahoma’s governor won’t request a performance audit of the agency that regulates insurance because the department had one late last year. In a letter to Sen. Harry Coates, Gov. Mary Fallin said the audit...
Oklahoma Bill Would Shield Agritourism Businesses from Liability
Feb 14 2013 // The Oklahoma Senate Judiciary Committee has approved legislation that would provide liability protection for Oklahoma’s agritourism professionals. Under Senate Bill 931, by Sen. Ron Justice and Rep. Scott Biggs,...
