All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 28 2010 // Legislation designed to improve Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system for injured workers and reduce costs for the state’s employers has passed the House of Representatives.The four bills comprise a...
May 28 2010 // Legislation that would allow law enforcement in Oklahoma to impound uninsured vehicles is one step away from becoming law.House Bill 2331, by state Rep. Steve Martin and state Sen. Gary Stanislawski, passed the Oklahoma...
May 27 2010 // Maryland Insurance Commissioner Beth Sammis has suspended the license of Oklahoma-based Imperial Casualty and Indemnity Co., after a district court in its home state ordered the company liquidated. Oklahoma regulators...
May 21 2010 // Drivers who make a left turn in the face of oncoming traffic may also face a traffic ticket, under a measure signed into law by Gov. Brad Henry.The new law, which goes into effect on Nov. 1, eliminates language that...
May 20 2010 // The Oklahoma House has approved legislation to allow state agencies to buy workers’ compensation insurance from private insurers instead of the state provider. The House voted 54-43 for the measure and sent to the...
May 20 2010 // America First Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, has added key agent support positions in Louisiana and Oklahoma.Donnie Brackins has been appointed Commercial Lines Underwriting manager for...
May 18 2010 // A national insurance group says two apparent staged car wreck rings found by authorities in the Oklahoma City metro is part of a nationwide trend.The National Insurance Crime Bureau says the number of schemes involving...
May 12 2010 // The Oklahoma Senate has killed a bill that would have required owners of mobile and RV parks to provide tenants with a plan to seek shelter.The bill’s author, State Rep. Pat Ownbey, praised a mobile home park south...
May 12 2010 // Violent storms that tore through the southern Plains on May 10 killed five people and injured dozens more, leaving behind flattened homes, toppled semitrailers and downed power lines.Several tornadoes were reported in...
May 12 2010 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said the state’s price gouging law is in effect in 56 Oklahoma counties following Gov. Brad Henry’ declared a state of emergency for those areas devastated by severe...
May 3 2010 // Regional property/casualty insurance company, The Republic Group, based in Dallas, announced that Jim Drawert, vice president – Industry Relations, will retire June 30.Prior to joining Republic in 2003, Drawert was...
Apr 28 2010 // Iowa-based Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company has issued its first auto policies in the state of Oklahoma, the company announced.Through its longtime relationship with Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company in Okarche,...
Apr 22 2010 // Legislation aimed at improving the state’s workers’ compensation system for injured workers and reducing costs for Oklahoma employers has passed the House of Representatives.Senate Bill 1973, by Rep. Dan...
Apr 21 2010 // Oklahoma State Rep. Ken Luttrell is proposing a complete overhaul of Oklahoma’s worker’s compensation system that would result in sending all workers’ compensation claims to district civil courts.Luttrell...
Apr 19 2010 // Big Rig Giveaway“I like Volvos. … I really like the style of the new ones.” —Ron Terrill, an Oklahoma truck driver, said he entered Great American Insurance Group’s “Big Rig Giveaway,” for...
Apr 19 2010 // Oklahoma City-based Insurica Insurance Management Network has hired Dillon B. Rosenhamer of Edmond, Okla., to augment the company’s surety practice. Rosenhamer has experience in the banking industry, most recently as...
Apr 15 2010 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has vetoed a bill calling for additional penalties for those who commit workers’ compensation fraud. House Bill 2894 would have required employees convicted of workers’ comp fraud to...
Apr 14 2010 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has signed into law a piece of legislation that will allow law enforcement to cite drivers who drive dangerously while using their cell phone, but prohibit them from initiating a traffic stop...
Apr 12 2010 // The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded another earthquake in central Oklahoma, and an additional one in central Arkansas as well.A 3.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded at 7:42 a.m. April 8 about two miles southwest of...
Apr 8 2010 // Legislation reforming the Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation court and system has passed a state House of Representatives committee. Reform of the state’s workers’ compensation has been a priority for...