Latest Oklahoma Headlines
All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Protecting People First Foundation to Study Impact Resistant Glass in Florida
Sep 1 2004 // The Protecting People First Foundation announced it is returning to Southwest Florida to continue an on-site study to document the contribution of impact resistant glass, safety film, hurricane shutters and other...
Okla. House Panel Recommends Fisher Impeachment
Aug 31 2004 // An Oklahoma House of Representatives committee studying grounds for impeachment of Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher has recommended he be impeached for neglect of duty, corruption in office and incompetency. The...
HOSPITAL CASUALTY IN RECEIVERSHIP:
Aug 23 2004 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher placed Hospital Casualty Co. into receivership after its Board of Directors requested the action. Hospital Casualty provides medical liability insurance to hospitals and...
Restitution Ordered in Okla. Case
Aug 9 2004 // A Tishomingo, Okla., man will pay more than $8,000 in restitution after pleading no contest in Oklahoma County District Court to one count of workers’ compensation fraud, State Attorney General Drew Edmondson...
Okla. Impeachment Panel to Wrap Up Aug. 26
Aug 6 2004 // A special legislative committee that is considering recommending the impeachment of Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher, who allegedly placed a campaign donation from a Mississippi man in his personal checking...
NCCI Requests Work Comp Rate Hikes in Okla.
Aug 5 2004 // Worker’s compensation insurers operating in Oklahoma want a significant increase in the premiums they charge for coverage, the Associated Press and The Oklahoman reported. An industry group representing the companies...
Okla. Republicans Vow to Keep Pushing Comp Reform
Aug 4 2004 // The minority leaders of the Oklahoma Senate and House of Representatives issued an announcement stating that legislative action during the state’s last legislative session could have staved off the higher...
Oklahoma’s Fisher Indicted Again
Jul 30 2004 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson announced that Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher was named in a Multicounty Grand Jury indictment unsealed in Oklahoma County District Court. Fisher was indicted July 28 on one...
Okla. Grand Jury Once Again Hears Testimony on Fisher
Jul 29 2004 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher’s troubles keep mounting. Fisher was recently taken out of the race for the U.S. Senate by Democratic rival, U.S. Rep. Brad Carson, 37, who won the Democratic primary...
Hospital Casualty Co. to Stop Operating by October
Jul 26 2004 // Hospital Casualty Co., an insurer that provides medical liability insurance to hospitals and nursing homes in Oklahoma, will stop operations by fall the Associated Press and the Oklahoman reported. Hospital Casualty Co....
Restitution Ordered in Okla. Workers’ Comp Case
Jul 23 2004 // A Tishomingo, Oklahoma, man will pay more than $8,000 in restitution after pleading no contest in Oklahoma County District Court to one count of workers’ compensation fraud, Attorney General Drew Edmondson...
WIS. SUPREMES OK MED-MAL CAPS:
Jul 19 2004 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the constitutionality of noneconomic damage caps in wrongful death medical malpractice cases. The Wisconsin Supreme Court concluded that “the limit on noneconomic...
Fisher Reprimanded by Oklahoma Ethics Panel
Jul 19 2004 // The State of Oklahoma Ethics Commission recently issued a two-count public reprimand for troubled state Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher. An impeachment committee of the Oklahoma House of Representa-tives is currently...
Clerk Says Fisher’s Charity Never Registered with State
Jul 19 2004 // A clerk with the Oklahoma Secretary of State’s office testified at a preliminary hearing for Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher and his assistant, Opal Ellis, that a charity operated by the pair was never properly...
Miss. Insurance Official Traces Frankel Insurance Scam From Conn. to Vatican Bank
Jul 19 2004 // The torching of financier Martin Frankel’s $3 million mansion in Greenwich, Conn., was meant to destroy evidence of an insurance scam that cost Mississippi and other states millions, police said. But not everything...
Okla. Ethics Panel Reprimands Fisher
Jul 12 2004 // A two-count public reprimand was handed down recently by the Oklahoma Ethics Commission against state Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher, The Associated Press reported. Fisher is the target of a House impeachment...
Oklahoma’s Fisher to Defend Himself in Senate Race
Jul 6 2004 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher, undaunted by an impeachment inquiry and pending criminal charges, is looking for vindication in his race for the U.S. Senate, the Associated Press reported. “And...
Legislative Summertime
Jul 5 2004 // Oklahoma and Louisiana lawmakers wrapped up their regular legislative sessions in June, with legislators in each state dealing with insurance issues in distinctive ways. As Tiffany O’Shea, Public Affairs director,...
Oklahoma’s 2004 Legislative Session Marked by Successes and Frustration
Jul 5 2004 // The 2004 session of the Oklahoma legislature was unusual. It was marked by disappointment of missing an opportunity to address much needed reforms in tort and workers’ compensation issues and triumph regarding...
OKLA. GOV. SIGNS TORT REFORM BILL:
Jun 21 2004 // After urging its passage, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry signed into law on May 28, 2004, House Bill 2661, a measure that proponents dubbed “a comprehensive tort reform bill.” In addition to Gov. Henry, the bill...
