All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Apr 8 2010 // A single dad from Oklahoma is the latest winner of the “Big Rig Giveaway,” sponsored by Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group. Ron Terrill was on the road driving for a national motor carrier...
Apr 6 2010 // The state of Oklahoma has collected at least $65 million in the past five years by selling personal information from motor vehicle records, according to newspaper reports.Wellon Poe, the chief legal counsel for the...
Apr 6 2010 // Increasing motorcycle registrations and a rise in motorcycle-related fatalities in Oklahoma have prompted passage in the state Legislature of a pair of measures aimed at improving motorcycle safety.HB 2264,...
Apr 5 2010 // Oklahoma insurance regulators have moved to seize a workers’ compensation insurer they say is insolvent and whose owners are being accused of deceptive financial transactions involving another recently-liquidated...
Apr 5 2010 // While a number workers’ compensation reform bills have made progress in the Oklahoma legislature this year, proposed measures that would have privatized the state agency that serves as the workers’ compensation...
Apr 2 2010 // Business conditions in the Midwest are generally on an upward swing, according to a survey of supply managers and business leaders in the region.The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group, directed by Creighton University...
Apr 1 2010 // Saying the state’s Workers’ Compensation Court has for years stonewalled legislative records requests, state Rep. Mike Reynolds has called for the dismissal of the court’s administrator, Marcia Davis, and...
Mar 18 2010 // Oklahoma Senate Republicans are continuing their push to completely overhaul Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation laws, arguing the system is too expensive for businesses.The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved...
Mar 12 2010 // The author of legislation authorizing the sale of Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation insurance agency said he does not have enough votes to pass it in the state House and that the bill appears dead for the...
Mar 11 2010 // The Oklahoma Senate has passed a bill aimed at worker’s compensation system reform, SB 1973, sponsored by Senate President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee.Provisions of SB 1973 include: Decreases the number of Worker’s...
Mar 10 2010 // Oklahoma motorists who drive without insurance could have their vehicles impounded under a bill approved in the Oklahoma House.The House voted 87-8 for House Bill 2331 by Rep. Steve Martin, a Bartlesville Republican....
Mar 8 2010 // The White House has approved Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry’s request for a major disaster declaration for the Jan. 28 ice storm. Under the declaration issued March 5, 25 counties will receive public assistance for...
Mar 7 2010 // The Oklahoma House Economic Development and Financial Services Committee has advanced a bill that would privatize CompSource Oklahoma, a state agency that serves as the insurance resource of last resort for workers’...
Mar 4 2010 // Legislation aimed at reforming the Oklahoma workers’ compensation system has passed the state’s House of Representatives.House Bills 1611, 2652, 2658 and 2659 now move to the Senate for consideration. The...
Mar 3 2010 // The Oklahoma House has passed legislation allowing lawmakers to opt out of the state employees group health and life insurance plans.House members voted 92-4 for the bill and sent it on to the Senate for consideration. The...
Mar 2 2010 // For the drivers whose vehicles were damaged by concrete falling from an Interstate 44 bridge in Oklahoma recently, Tulsa resident Robin Cameron knows what might lie ahead.On Christmas Day 2008, Cameron and her daughter...