Latest Oklahoma Headlines
All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Commissioner Launches Team to Investigate Wildfire Insurance
Apr 28 2004 // A team of attorneys and consumer advocates will be in place by week’s end to investigate complaints by hundreds of victims of last fall’s Southern California wildfires that their insurance companies...
Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Proposals Revived
Apr 27 2004 // Several workers’ compensation reforms proposed in a pair of Oklahoma House of Represenatives bills that died in the Senate had new life breathed into them by amendments the House attached to Senate Bill...
PLICO, Hospital Casualty Under Supervision in Okla.
Apr 23 2004 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher announced that officials with Physicians Liability Insurance Co. (PLICO) and Hospital Casualty Co. have signed agreements placing the two companies under formal supervision by...
Fisher Approves Rate Hike for Med-Mal Insurer
Apr 22 2004 // Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher recently announced that a request for a rate hike by Oklahoma’s third largest writer of medical malpractice insurance has been approved. The Oklahoma Insurance Department...
OKLA. COMP BILL SHELVED:
Apr 19 2004 // Oklahoma State Senate President Pro Tempore Cal Hobson announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will not hear House Bill 2619, which addresses the state’s workers’ compensation system. Hobson said the bill...
Oklahoma Senate Passes Tort Reform Measure
Apr 15 2004 // The Oklahoma State Senate approved House Bill 2661 and sent the measure to a House-Senate Conference Committee. According to the Senate Communications Divisions, 23 members of a special House-Senate committee on tort...
Manulife-John Hancock Merger Wins Mass. OK
Apr 14 2004 // Manulife Financial Corporation has received approval from the Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) for its proposed merger with John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. The DOI is the principal U.S. regulator for John...
Okla. Repairmen Hammered with Five Counts of Fraud
Apr 14 2004 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said charges his office filed against a home repairman should serve as a warning to consumers to be on the lookout for home repair scams that often go along with Oklahoma’s...
Oklahoma Clarifies Record Retention Rules
Apr 12 2004 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department issued a bulletin clarifying a previous communication on agent records that said hard copies must be maintained. In the new bulletin, the Department noted that “hard copies”...
Plan for Oklahoma Tort Reform Hearings Presented
Apr 9 2004 // Oklahoma state Senator Mike Morgan, D-Stillwater, and state Representative Jari Askins, D-Duncan, announced a schedule for four issue-oriented hearings on tort reform. Morgan and Askins co-chair a special 23-member joint...
Okla. Legislature to Hold Joint Hearings on Lawsuit Reform Beginning April 15
Apr 6 2004 // Oklahoma’s Speaker of the House, Larry Adair, and Senate President Pro Tempore Cal Hobson announced the formation of a 23-member bipartisan joint committee on lawsuit reform. The committee, which will be led by...
Oklahoma’s Adair Selects Fisher Investigation Committee
Apr 5 2004 // Larry E. Adair, Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, announced the names of the special investigative committee charged with considering articles of impeachment against state Insurance Commissioner Carroll...
Okla. House Approves Impeachment Panel
Apr 1 2004 // The Oklahoma Legislation House of Representatives decided by a vote of 84 – 12 to empanel a special investigating committee to consider articles of impeachment against State Insurance Commissioner Carroll...
Okla. Department of Labor Says Fewer Injuries in Required Time Off Work in 2002
Mar 30 2004 // The number of workplace injuries involving lost workdays fell 10 percent in 2002 compared with the previous year according to a report released this month by the Oklahoma Department of Labor. Of the 16,747 job-related...
Workers’ Comp Bill Shelved in Oklahoma Senate
Mar 30 2004 // Oklahoma State Senate President Pro Tempore Cal Hobson announced the Senate Judiciary Committee will not hear House Bill 2619, which addresses the state’s workers’ compensation system. Without a hearing in the...
Oklahoma Senators Spar Over Workers’ Comp Bill
Mar 25 2004 // Oklahoma Senate Republican leaders made a case in a news conference at the State Capitol that the Senate’s Democrat leadership is refusing to allow a committee chairman access to a landmark workers’...
IIAOK Issues Special Legislative Alert on HB 2261
Mar 25 2004 // Dan Ramsey, executive director of the Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma (IIAOK), in a recent State Capitol Report issued an alert to IIAOK members, urging them to become active in efforts to secure meaningful tort...
Commissioner Fisher May Face Impeachment Proceedings in Oklahoma
Mar 24 2004 // Two Republican legislators in Oklahoma are pushing the Oklahoma House of Representatives to launch a probe “to determine whether Articles of Impeachment should be preferred” against Insurance Commissioner...
Mass. Adds Its OK to St. Paul-Travelers Merger
Mar 23 2004 // The proposed Travelers-St. Paul merger has received another endorsement as the Massachusetts Division of Insurance has given its approval to the acquisition by St. Paul of Premier Insurance Co., the Massachusetts stock...
FISHER BANS UNLICENSED COMPANY:
Mar 22 2004 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher issued an order preventing an unlicensed Georgia firm from selling workers’ compensation insurance in Oklahoma. Atlanta-based Exceptional Personnel Inc., which also does...
