All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 21 2021 // A bipartisan solution to address the proliferation of cybercrime has unanimously passed the Oklahoma Senate.House Bill 1759, authored by Rep. Trish Ranson, D-Stillwater and Sen. Zack Taylor, R-Seminole, updates language in...
Apr 19 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...
Apr 15 2021 // The Oklahoma House of Representatives has passed a bill that extends high school apprenticeship programs to include sophomores who are at least 16 years old. It includes a provision that allows school districts to obtain...
Apr 14 2021 // The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission is now accepting comments on the 2020 Medical Fee Schedule.In 2020, the WCC, guided by its external consultant, FAIR Health, conducted an evaluation and update to the...
Apr 13 2021 // A bill that calls for providing liability insurance coverage to all full- and part-time school employees up to $1 million per occurrence has passed out of committee and moved to the House for consideration.Senate Bill 634,...
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...