All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 6 2012 // No More Funds-Holding“I have received numerous constituent complaints regarding a mortgage company holding onto funds for weeks while homeowners face emergency repairs that must be made quickly.” —Oklahoma...
Feb 1 2012 // Taxation, workers’ compensation insurance and health care coverage top the State Chamber of Oklahoma’s agenda for the 2012 legislative session that kicks off on Feb. 6. The State Chamber’s business agenda...
Jan 31 2012 // Communications have been modernized, utility outage response has improved and emergency response officials in north-central Oklahoma are better prepared for natural disasters 10 years after one of the worst ice storms in...
Jan 30 2012 // Two Oklahoma lawmakers have filed legislation to increase the number of state employees who could opt out of state insurance coverage. The measure expands a 2011 law that allowed state employees and lawmakers to refuse...
Jan 27 2012 // The parents of two teenagers who were severely injured in a grain elevator accident in Oklahoma have filed negligence lawsuits against the business where the boys worked.Cherie Gannon, Lee Zander and Rhonda Zander filed...
Jan 26 2012 // A bill filed in Oklahoma aims to help homeowners with insurance claim payments issued through mortgage companies.Legislation filed by Oklahoma state Rep. Charles Ortega would give mortgage companies no more than 10 days to...
Jan 26 2012 // Oklahoma’s top insurance regulator says the department spent nearly $675,000 less in 2011 than it did in 2010.For the 12 months ending Dec. 31, 2011, the insurance department spent $11,160,855.28 compared to...
Jan 23 2012 // A new national campaign warning against distracted driving features the story of an Oklahoma City teenager who was killed in a car crash while talking on her cell phone.The U.S. Department of Transportation video featuring...
Jan 23 2012 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv The soft market is turning, perhaps not dramatically but it is turning, says Jerry Sullivan, chairman, The Sullivan Group, in Los Angeles. If carriers decide they must raise prices, will...
Jan 23 2012 // On Jan. 30, 2012, the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS) will begin adding medical certification status and medical examiner’s certificate information to commercial driver’s license system (CDLIS)...
Jan 23 2012 // Oklahoma’s top insurance regulator believes the medical insurance market is headed for “disruption” as a result of the medical loss ratio (MLR) component of federal health insurance reform.After...
Jan 19 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating to “bbb+” from “a-” of GHS Property and Casualty Insurance Co. (GHS), located in...
Jan 18 2012 // More than $25.2 million in federal disaster aid has been approved to help residents, businesses and local governments in Virginia recover from last summer’s earthquake.The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the...
Jan 13 2012 // Authorities say four men suffered burn injuries on Jan. 12 in an explosion at a business in south Edmond, Okla.Edmond Fire Department Maj. Kelly Lewis told reporters at the scene that one man suffered third-degree burns...
Jan 13 2012 // On Jan. 30, 2012, the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS) will begin adding medical certification status and medical examiner’s certificate information to commercial driver’s license system (CDLIS)...
Jan 13 2012 // An Oklahoma woman who keeps a partially paralyzed kangaroo as a therapy pet said on Jan. 11 that she is moving to another city over a spat with local officials, even though they insist they haven’t told her to go or...
Jan 12 2012 // The Oklahoma insurance regulators announced that a Tulsa area man has been charged unlawfully selling health insurance to Oklahoma customers.The Oklahoma Insurance Department said Terry L. McCrackin, 64, was charged in...
Jan 10 2012 // A South Carolina judge has granted preliminary class-action status to lawsuits alleging defective stucco work on homes in Sun City Hilton Head.The Island Packet of Hilton Head reported that Judge J. Michael Baxley issued...
Jan 9 2012 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down on Dec. 20, 2011, part of a new law that prevents chiropractors and some other medical professionals from serving as independent medical examiners in the state’s Workers’...
Jan 9 2012 // In his first year as insurance commissioner of Oklahoma, John Doak was a busy man.Doak and the agency he leads had their hands full implementing reforms in the workers’ compensation system, dealing with a host of...