Latest Oklahoma Headlines
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Insurers: May Storms in Oklahoma Caused $1B in Damage
Jun 4 2010 // Industry representatives say insurance companies likely will pay out more than $1 billion for property damage sustained during a stormy month of May in Oklahoma. An estimate by ISO’s Property Claims Services unit,...
Oklahoma Agent Announces Run for Insurance Commissioner Post
Jun 3 2010 // Mark Croucher, an insurance agency owner in Jenks, Okla., has announced his candidacy for the office of state insurance commissioner. Croucher, who specializes in health, life and senior oriented insurance products, began...
Mid-America Business Conditions Index at Highest Level in Four Years
Jun 1 2010 // The May Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region advanced for a sixth straight month, pointing to a growing economy in the months ahead, according to the May Business Conditions survey of supply managers in the...
Ohio Revokes Licenses of Oklahoma, New York Domiciled Insurers
May 28 2010 // The Ohio Department of Insurance has revoked the licenses of two troubled insurance companies: Imperial Casualty and Indemnity Co. of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co. (AMIC) of New York, N.Y. In...
Oklahoma Workers’ Comp System Reform Legislation Advances
May 28 2010 // Legislation designed to improve Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system for injured workers and reduce costs for the state’s employers has passed the House of Representatives. The four bills comprise a...
Legislation to Impound Uninsured Vehicles Advances in Oklahoma
May 28 2010 // Legislation that would allow law enforcement in Oklahoma to impound uninsured vehicles is one step away from becoming law. House Bill 2331, by state Rep. Steve Martin and state Sen. Gary Stanislawski, passed the Oklahoma...
Maryland Suspends Insolvent Oklahoma Insurer
May 27 2010 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Beth Sammis has suspended the license of Oklahoma-based Imperial Casualty and Indemnity Co., after a district court in its home state ordered the company liquidated. Oklahoma regulators...
New Oklahoma Left Turn Law Designed to Reduce Fatalities
May 21 2010 // Drivers who make a left turn in the face of oncoming traffic may also face a traffic ticket, under a measure signed into law by Gov. Brad Henry. The new law, which goes into effect on Nov. 1, eliminates language that...
Oklahoma House Passes State Agency Workers’ Comp Bill
May 20 2010 // The Oklahoma House has approved legislation to allow state agencies to buy workers’ compensation insurance from private insurers instead of the state provider. The House voted 54-43 for the measure and sent to the...
America First Insurance Expands Agent Support in Louisiana, Oklahoma
May 20 2010 // America First Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, has added key agent support positions in Louisiana and Oklahoma. Donnie Brackins has been appointed Commercial Lines Underwriting manager for...
Insurance Group Reports Staged Car Wreck Rings in Oklahoma City
May 18 2010 // A national insurance group says two apparent staged car wreck rings found by authorities in the Oklahoma City metro is part of a nationwide trend. The National Insurance Crime Bureau says the number of schemes involving...
Tornado Shelter Legislation Killed in Oklahoma Senate
May 12 2010 // The Oklahoma Senate has killed a bill that would have required owners of mobile and RV parks to provide tenants with a plan to seek shelter. The bill’s author, State Rep. Pat Ownbey, praised a mobile home park south...
5 Thought Dead in Oklahoma, Dozens Injured as Tornadoes Hit Plains
May 12 2010 // Violent storms that tore through the southern Plains on May 10 killed five people and injured dozens more, leaving behind flattened homes, toppled semitrailers and downed power lines. Several tornadoes were reported in...
Oklahoma’s Price Gouging Statute in Effect Following Storms
May 12 2010 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said the state’s price gouging law is in effect in 56 Oklahoma counties following Gov. Brad Henry’ declared a state of emergency for those areas devastated by severe...
People
May 3 2010 // Regional property/casualty insurance company, The Republic Group, based in Dallas, announced that Jim Drawert, vice president – Industry Relations, will retire June 30. Prior to joining Republic in 2003, Drawert was...
Grinnell Mutual Issues First Oklahoma Auto Policies
Apr 28 2010 // Iowa-based Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company has issued its first auto policies in the state of Oklahoma, the company announced. Through its longtime relationship with Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company in Okarche,...
Oklahoma House Passes Workers’ Compensation Reform Measure
Apr 22 2010 // Legislation aimed at improving the state’s workers’ compensation system for injured workers and reducing costs for Oklahoma employers has passed the House of Representatives. Senate Bill 1973, by Rep. Dan...
Oklahoma Lawmaker Wants to Send Work Comp Claims to Civil Courts
Apr 21 2010 // Oklahoma State Rep. Ken Luttrell is proposing a complete overhaul of Oklahoma’s worker’s compensation system that would result in sending all workers’ compensation claims to district civil...
Declarations
Apr 19 2010 // Big Rig Giveaway “I like Volvos. … I really like the style of the new ones.” —Ron Terrill, an Oklahoma truck driver, said he entered Great American Insurance Group’s “Big Rig Giveaway,”...
Oklahoma’s Insurica Adds Rosenhamer to Surety Practice
Apr 19 2010 // Oklahoma City-based Insurica Insurance Management Network has hired Dillon B. Rosenhamer of Edmond, Okla., to augment the company’s surety practice. Rosenhamer has experience in the banking industry, most recently as...
