All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 7 2021 // Genworth Financial Inc. has terminated a $2.7 billion buyout agreement with investment firm China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co., the U.S. insurer said on Tuesday.Originally proposed in October 2016, the merger was stalled...
Apr 5 2021 // Oklahoma has reached a $25 million settlement with Farmers Insurance over the company’s handling of earthquake claims, state officials say.Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter and Insurance Commissioner Glen...
Mar 16 2021 // A bill to address a growing trend of cybercrime unanimously passed the Oklahoma House of Representatives on March 10 with a vote of 92 to 0.House Bill 1759, authored by Rep. Trish Ranson, D-Stillwater, updates language in...
Mar 12 2021 // Federal officials have cited an Oklahoma construction contractor for exposing its employees to trenching and excavation hazards, violations for which it has been cited previously.OSHA cited Cherokee Pride Construction Inc....
Mar 8 2021 // Concerned about data privacy and data manipulation, the Oklahoma House of Representatives has passed an opt-in data privacy bill with a bipartisan vote of 85 to 11.The Oklahoma Computer Data Privacy Act, House Bill 1602,...
Mar 3 2021 // An Oklahoma City roofing and building products company has been ordered to reinstate two employees and pay more than $23,000 in back wages to each employee and $70,000 in punitive damages in a workplace safety...
Feb 23 2021 // One of America’s leading pig slaughterhouses is running faster than ever as meatpackers hustle to keep pork in grocery stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plant worker Hector Ixquier says it’s time to slow...
Feb 22 2021 // The injection of wastewater into underground wells by oil and natural gas producers has been stopped or reduced in the area where a magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck in northern Oklahoma early on Feb. 19.The Oklahoma...
Feb 18 2021 // Under legislation passed by the Oklahoma House of Representatives, new or renovated hotels and motels would be required to tornado safety information in every room and common areas.Rep. Denise Crosswhite Hader, R-Piedmont,...
Feb 16 2021 // Applied Underwriters’ affiliate, North American Casualty Co., has completed its acquisition of Oklahoma City-based Oklahoma Property and Casualty Insurance Co. (OP&C).Applied Underwriters plans to make various...
Feb 10 2021 // Bipartisan legislation to address concerns over data privacy and data manipulation unanimously passed out of the Oklahoma House Technology Committee with a vote of 6 to 0.The Oklahoma Computer Data Privacy Act, House Bill...
Feb 10 2021 // A Texas-based rail products and services company has been cited by federal workplace safety officials for violations that resulted in the deaths of two workers at a site in Hugo, Oklahoma.An investigation by the U.S....
Feb 7 2021 // A series of small earthquakes believed by seismologists to be caused by the underground injection of wastewater from oil and gas production continued to rattle northern Oklahoma on Feb. 6.Four quakes occurred Saturday...
Feb 4 2021 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) has appointed Donald Ashwood as captive coordinator, a position in which he will coordinate increased activity with captive insurers in Oklahoma.Ashwood joined the OID in 2014 and...
Feb 3 2021 // Higginbotham, an independent insurance firm based in Fort Worth, Texas, and Vaughan Insurance Group, a commercial insurance firm in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have merged operations.This gives Higginbotham a second location in...
Feb 1 2021 // The National Transportation Safety Board has announced that it is investigating a house fire that killed four people, including two firefighters, in the northwestern part of the state.The agency launched the investigation...
Jan 26 2021 // State Attorney General Mike Hunter is seeking more than $1.8 million from a company he says owes that state after failing to deliver four orders of personal protective equipment (PPE) ordered by the Oklahoma Department of...
Jan 20 2021 // Oklahoma schools are advising people to throw away milk products received from districts after a dairy company recalled its chocolate milk because some of it may have been contaminated.Hiland Dairy is recalling 4,800 cases...
Jan 11 2021 // An Oklahoma judge has extended a temporary restraining order allowing bars and restaurants across Oklahoma to stay open past an 11 p.m. curfew issued in November by Gov. Kevin Stitt in an effort to slow the spread of the...
Jan 8 2021 // Two Oklahoma lobbyists have agreed to pay $115,000 in penalties as part of a settlement announced by the Oklahoma Ethics Commission.The settlements by the commission were reached with lobbyists James Milner and James...