Latest Oklahoma Headlines
All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Transportation activities accounted for most on-job fatalities in 2005
Sep 4 2006 // Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma all experienced higher rates of workplace fatalities in 2005, as compared to 2004. However, the total number of workplace deaths dropped by 15 in Louisiana last year. Transportation-related...
Willis Joins Marsh in Getting OK for Contingency Pay for MGA Services
Sep 1 2006 // Global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings has signed an agreement with the New York Attorney General and the Insurance Department of New York amending the previous agreement banning receipt of all contingent...
Marsh Given OK to Accept Contingent Pay When Serving as MGA
Aug 25 2006 // In a departure from their $850 million agreement prohibiting all contingent payments, New York officials have agreed to let Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. (MMC) accept contingent commissions from an insurer for which...
AJS Will Pay Fine, Comply with Okla. Telephone Laws
Aug 24 2006 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson announced that his office has completed its investigation into political telephone calls that targeted a Republican congressional race on the eve of July’s primary...
Okla. Agents Denounce Contingent Fee Settlement Agreements
Aug 23 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma (IIAO), the state’s largest insurance and property casualty agents association, has joined other agent groups in denouncing recent assaults on compensation agreements...
Oklahoma, Texas have most uninsured children
Aug 21 2006 // Arkansas led the nation in the reducing the number of uninsured children in that state between 1997 and 2004, but Texas and Oklahoma lagged behind the rest — ranking last and next to last, respectively, in the...
More drought relief needed in Oklahoma
Aug 21 2006 // Oklahoma State Sen. Jeff Rabon recently asked the U.S. Congress to make available additional funding for emergency drought relief needed by Oklahoma farmers and ranchers after Gov. Brad Henry’s request for disaster...
New State-Run Commercial Insurance Unit OK’d by Fla. Governor, Cabinet
Aug 18 2006 // Following a presentation by Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty, Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Cabinet approved an emergency rule establishing a property and casualty joint underwriting association to make...
Number of Teen Smokers in Oklahoma Falls
Aug 16 2006 // Nearly one-third fewer Oklahoma teenagers smoked cigarettes last year compared to 1999, according to a state Health Department survey. The random survey of 4,000 high school and middle school students estimated there were...
Okla. Private Sector Job Deaths Decline During 2005
Aug 11 2006 // The Oklahoma Department of Labor reported that fatalities in private sector workplaces fell slightly in 2005. According to a report released by the DOL, Overall, 84 private sector job deaths were recorded in 2005, down two...
Okla. Lags in Children With Health Coverage
Aug 11 2006 // A new study shows Oklahoma lags behind other states in the number of children covered by health insurance, with about 17.5 percent of those up to age 17 lacking coverage. The number of uninsured children in the state has...
Get your motor runnin’ — not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // Most motorcycles taken in California, Ohio comes in fifth, Indiana in top 10 at number nine California was tops in the nation for motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but Ohio had...
Former claims director indicted in Oklahoma
Aug 7 2006 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson reported that the former claims director for CompSource Oklahoma is accused of one count of workers’ compensation fraud in a Multicounty Grand Jury indictment unsealed in July...
Get your motor runnin’ — not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // Most motorcycles taken in California, Texas comes in third; Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana in the middle of the pack for thefts California topped the nation in motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National...
News Currents
Aug 7 2006 // Former claims director indicted in Oklahoma Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson reported that the former claims director for CompSource Oklahoma is accused of one count of workers’ compensation fraud in a...
Get your motor runnin’ – not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // California topped the nation in motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but Texas had the dubious honor of coming in third place, with Florida falling in between the two as the state...
Okla. Governor Issues Statewide Burn Ban
Aug 4 2006 // Citing a new wave of wildfires, Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry ordered a statewide burn ban Aug. 2 and warned that Oklahoma’s hot, windy and dry conditions show no sign of ending. “There appears to be no relief in...
Okla. Man Charged With Defrauding 8
Aug 2 2006 // A Claremore, Okla., man is facing nine felony counts of caretaker exploitation after an investigation by Attorney General Drew Edmondson’s Patient Abuse and Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Mark Neil Ferris, 49, was...
Insurance Investigators Examining Okla. Funeral Home
Jul 27 2006 // Accounting questions surrounding a funeral benefits trust fund operated by a Fletcher, Okla., funeral home have prompted the state insurance department to seize control of the fund. The owner of the funeral home, John W....
Ohio Attorney General Says ‘Casinos’ Real Issue in Shawnee Tribe Case
Jul 25 2006 // Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro moved to intervene in the case against the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma’s claim for lands in Ohio. In May 2005, the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma filed this suit claiming that...
