All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 5 2010 // A district court judge has authorized Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland to place Pegasus Insurance Co. into rehabilita-tion.Pegasus specializes in workers’ compensation for professional employer...
Jul 5 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected David Wood, vice president and partner at Bogan, Dunlap & Wood Insurance in Odessa, to serve as the association’s president for 2010-2011.Other newly...
Jun 25 2010 // A district court judge has authorized Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland to place Pegasus Insurance Company into rehabilitation.Pegasus specializes in workers’ compensation for professional employer...
Jun 23 2010 // The good news is that state revenue in Oklahoma is improving. The bad news is that the state’s unemployment rate is increasing.The state Board of Equalization has certified revenue that will be available to pay for...
Jun 22 2010 // Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma say a gubernatorial veto will keep numerous agencies, including some of the state’s largest, from saving millions in health care costs. Legislation that supporters say would have...
Jun 21 2010 // Lloyd Eisenrich, president of Weatherby-Eisenrich Inc. in Andrews, Texas, has been elected president of Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), headquartered in Austin.The other members of the 2010 CAA management committee...
Jun 21 2010 // One of the most destructive weather months in Oklahoma history could end up having the state’s highest insurance loss payout in recent memory, industry experts have said.It will be months before all the claims are in...
Jun 17 2010 // San Francisco could soon start requiring retailers to post notices showing how much radiation is emitted by the cell phones they sell.The Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 to give preliminary approval to the ordinance, which...
Jun 15 2010 // Legislation intended to improve the Oklahoma workers’ compensation system for injured workers was signed into law June11 by Gov. Brad Henry.The governor’s signature on the measure also reduces by one the number...
Jun 15 2010 // State officials in Oklahoma declared a state of emergency on June 14 for 59 counties following severe storms and flooding that began a day earlier.At the request of Gov. Henry, who is out of the state, Lt. Gov. Jari Askins...
Jun 14 2010 // Recent storms throughout Oklahoma caused a tremendous amount of property damage and the Oklahoma Insurance Department says some insurers have been, or currently are, issuing nonrenewal notices to many of their insured....
Jun 10 2010 // Gov. Brad Henry has signed legislation requiring Senate confirmation of his nominees to the Workers’ Compensation Court that was similar to a measure he vetoed last year. Henry signed the legislation June 8 along...
Jun 8 2010 // Tammy Armer, commercial and farm underwriter with Westphalen Insurance Services, has been elected president of the Central Oklahoma Chapter of CPCU Society.Also elected were: Vice President David Wilhite, project manager...
Jun 7 2010 // The Ohio Department of Insurance has revoked the licenses of two troubled insurance companies: Imperial Casualty and Indemnity Co. of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co. (AMIC) of New York, N.Y.In March...
Jun 7 2010 // The Oklahoma Legislature passed four measures that alter the state workers’ compensation system, including one that requires Senate confirmation of Workers’ Compensation Court judges – a proposal that...
Jun 7 2010 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) President and CEO Kristin W. Wall has been elected to the board of directors of NCCI Holdings Inc., a provider of workers’ compensation and employee injury data and...
Jun 4 2010 // Industry representatives say insurance companies likely will pay out more than $1 billion for property damage sustained during a stormy month of May in Oklahoma.An estimate by ISO’s Property Claims Services unit,...
Jun 3 2010 // Mark Croucher, an insurance agency owner in Jenks, Okla., has announced his candidacy for the office of state insurance commissioner.Croucher, who specializes in health, life and senior oriented insurance products, began...
Jun 1 2010 // The May Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region advanced for a sixth straight month, pointing to a growing economy in the months ahead, according to the May Business Conditions survey of supply managers in the...
May 28 2010 // The Ohio Department of Insurance has revoked the licenses of two troubled insurance companies: Imperial Casualty and Indemnity Co. of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co. (AMIC) of New York, N.Y.In March...