All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 4 2008 // A federal jury has ordered an Oklahoma City-based insurance company to pay $10.8 million for improperly reducing the benefit owed to the mother of a policyholder who died.American Fidelity Assurance Co. said it was...
Feb 4 2008 // Oklahoma will receive $2.5 million of the $72 million in Martin Frankel’s assets seized by the Internal Revenue Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland.Frankel...
Feb 1 2008 // Oklahoma’s unemployment rate rose 0.1 percent in December to 4.3 percent, spurred by higher jobless claims in more than half of the state’s 77 counties, according to state officials.About 1.65 million people...
Jan 31 2008 // Movies – think Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in “The Big Sleep” – often make cigarette smoking look glamorous. Of course, in reality, the practice is anything but. In addition to being a leading...
Jan 28 2008 // A bill introduced by Oklahoma state Senator Bill Brown would require a conviction of boating while under the influence (BUI) to be made part of an individual’s driving record. The aim of Senate Bill 1140 is to reduce...
Jan 27 2008 // Seeking to reduce drunk driving convictions and alcohol-related traffic fatalities Oklahoma State Rep. Scott Inman, D-Del City, has filed a measure aimed that would require previous DUI or DWI convictions to be noted on...
Jan 27 2008 // Three Oklahoma state representatives, all Republicans, say they are returning campaign contributions given to them by the son of a man linked to convicted former state Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher.Reps. Jeff...
Jan 25 2008 // Oklahoma House Democratic Leader Danny Morgan has filed legislation that would make it illegal for teenagers to use cell phones or text while driving.In announcing his bill, Morgan, D-Prague, said he believes the measure,...
Jan 24 2008 // Oklahoma legislators seem to have smoking on their minds. Recently filed bills aimed at smoking issues would require the sales of “fire safe” cigarettes, require insurance companies to provide coverage for...
Jan 18 2008 // Three Oklahoma state representatives, all Republicans, say they are returning campaign contributions given to them by the son of a man linked to convicted former state Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher.Reps. Jeff...
Jan 16 2008 // Oklahoma State Rep. Scott Inman, D-Del City, recently filed a measure aimed at reducing drunk driving convictions and alcohol-related traffic fatalities by requiring that previous DUI or DWI convictions be noted on...
Jan 15 2008 // Oklahoma State Rep. Joe Dorman filed a measure for the upcoming legislative session that would make Oklahoma the 31st state to require cigarettes sold within the state to be so-called “fire-safe cigarettes,”...
Jan 14 2008 // A judge in Tulsa is calling off former Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher’s tax-evasion trial that was to start Feb. 11.Associate District Judge Dana Kuehn says Fisher must have another preliminary...
Jan 13 2008 // Very Bad News“America’s job-creators pay attention to the Judicial Hellholes report. This is very bad news for Oklahoma, and it is the latest in a long list of damaging publicity Gov. Henry created for our...
Jan 3 2008 // Through a subsidiary, Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired Tecumseh, Okla.-based Turner & Associates Insurance Agency Inc., the companies announced.Turner & Associates, with annualized revenue of approximately...
Dec 31 2007 // Weather, directly or indirectly, was a driving force in the insurance markets for the South Central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas in 2007. With the exception of Arkansas, throughout the year the South...
Dec 28 2007 // Two of Oklahoma’s largest industries, agriculture and tourism, have combined to give local tourist destinations a new level of exposure.The Oklahoma Agritourism initiative, a partnership between the Oklahoma Tourism...
Dec 27 2007 // An Oklahoma jury awarded country music star Toby Keith, his mother and his siblings $2.8 million in damages from the 2001 collision that killed Keith’s father.A jury returned the verdict against Elias Rodriguez and...
Dec 23 2007 // PeopleThe Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Co. named Thomas H. Grimstad, M.D., as its new president and chief executive officer. Grimstad will succeed John E. Lemoine, M.D., effective Jan.1, 2008. Since its founding in...
Dec 23 2007 // Ice storms slickened roads and sidewalks, grounded hundreds of flights, and cut power to tens of thousands beginning Dec. 9 as the storms swept across the Southern Plains to the Great Lakes.The wintry weather continued and...