Oklahoma News

It Figures

200,000 Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt issued executive orders declaring a state of emergency and activating the Missouri National Guard in response to the winter ice storm in mid-January. Blunt also put the Disaster Medical Assistance Team on standby in anticipation …

Western Maritime Forms Maritime Central

Stockton, Calif.-based Western Maritime Insurance Services, a specialist in commercial and recreational marine wholesale insurance, announced today that it is expanding into 13 states for 2007 thru the newly formed entity. Those states will be Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, …

New Markets

Parking and Valet Operators Nuts & Bolts: USRisk Brokers has a new Parking and Valet Operators Program designed for businesses engaged in parking customers’ cars, such as self-parking garages and lots, assisted parking, valet parking and parking for special events. …

Keeping score

Although 2006 is safely behind us, some sticky issues are on the horizon as we edge our way into 2007. Case in point is the pending Supreme Court cases of Safeco v. Burr and GEICO v. Edo. The cases are …

New Markets

Parking and Valet Operators Nuts & Bolts: USRisk Brokers has a new Parking and Valet Operators Program designed for businesses engaged in parking customers’ cars, such as self-parking garages and lots, assisted parking, valet parking and parking for special events. …

New Markets

Monoline Energy Nuts & Bolts: MarketScout, the Dallas-based eInsurance Exchange, has launched an exclusive Monoline Energy Workers’ Compensation program. The facility accepts most class codes related to the energy industry, including operations “over the hole” and USL&H exposures. Dollars: Statutory …

Emergency declaration allows more claims adjusters in Okla.

Oklahoma Insurance Com-missioner Kim Holland declared a state of emergency Jan. 16, 2007, following severe winter weather that all 77 counties in the state. According to the commissioner’s office the declaration will allow emergency claims adjusters from other states to …

New Markets

Real Estate Appraisers Nuts & Bolts: San Diego-based AMIS (Alliance Marketing and Insurance Services) is offering broader package policies for real estate appraisers handling residential and commercial property. This policy offers commercial general liability coupled with errors and omissions and …

It Figures

$445 Billion Nearly half a billion dollars will be given to U.S. cities and regions to help reduce the risk of terror attacks on ports, transit systems and chemical plants, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced. The Associated Press reported …

Declarations

More than one first “I’m elated to begin my first full four-year term during Oklahoma’s centennial year. It is indeed an honor. Having restored integrity and public confidence to the office, I am committed to creating an environment where nearly …