All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 4 2006 // Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma all experienced higher rates of workplace fatalities in 2005, as compared to 2004. However, the total number of workplace deaths dropped by 15 in Louisiana last year. Transportation-related...
Sep 1 2006 // Global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings has signed an agreement with the New York Attorney General and the Insurance Department of New York amending the previous agreement banning receipt of all contingent...
Aug 25 2006 // In a departure from their $850 million agreement prohibiting all contingent payments, New York officials have agreed to let Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. (MMC) accept contingent commissions from an insurer for which...
Aug 24 2006 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson announced that his office has completed its investigation into political telephone calls that targeted a Republican congressional race on the eve of July’s primary...
Aug 23 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma (IIAO), the state’s largest insurance and property casualty agents association, has joined other agent groups in denouncing recent assaults on compensation agreements...
Aug 21 2006 // Arkansas led the nation in the reducing the number of uninsured children in that state between 1997 and 2004, but Texas and Oklahoma lagged behind the rest — ranking last and next to last, respectively, in the...
Aug 21 2006 // Oklahoma State Sen. Jeff Rabon recently asked the U.S. Congress to make available additional funding for emergency drought relief needed by Oklahoma farmers and ranchers after Gov. Brad Henry’s request for disaster...
Aug 18 2006 // Following a presentation by Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty, Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Cabinet approved an emergency rule establishing a property and casualty joint underwriting association to make...
Aug 16 2006 // Nearly one-third fewer Oklahoma teenagers smoked cigarettes last year compared to 1999, according to a state Health Department survey.The random survey of 4,000 high school and middle school students estimated there were...
Aug 11 2006 // The Oklahoma Department of Labor reported that fatalities in private sector workplaces fell slightly in 2005. According to a report released by the DOL, Overall, 84 private sector job deaths were recorded in 2005, down two...
Aug 11 2006 // A new study shows Oklahoma lags behind other states in the number of children covered by health insurance, with about 17.5 percent of those up to age 17 lacking coverage.The number of uninsured children in the state has...
Aug 7 2006 // Most motorcycles taken in California, Ohio comes in fifth, Indiana in top 10 at number nineCalifornia was tops in the nation for motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but Ohio had the...
Aug 7 2006 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson reported that the former claims director for CompSource Oklahoma is accused of one count of workers’ compensation fraud in a Multicounty Grand Jury indictment unsealed in July...
Aug 7 2006 // Most motorcycles taken in California, Texas comes in third; Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana in the middle of the pack for theftsCalifornia topped the nation in motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National...
Aug 7 2006 // Former claims director indicted in OklahomaOklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson reported that the former claims director for CompSource Oklahoma is accused of one count of workers’ compensation fraud in a...
Aug 7 2006 // California topped the nation in motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but Texas had the dubious honor of coming in third place, with Florida falling in between the two as the state...
Aug 4 2006 // Citing a new wave of wildfires, Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry ordered a statewide burn ban Aug. 2 and warned that Oklahoma’s hot, windy and dry conditions show no sign of ending.“There appears to be no relief in...
Aug 2 2006 // A Claremore, Okla., man is facing nine felony counts of caretaker exploitation after an investigation by Attorney General Drew Edmondson’s Patient Abuse and Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.Mark Neil Ferris, 49, was...
Jul 27 2006 // Accounting questions surrounding a funeral benefits trust fund operated by a Fletcher, Okla., funeral home have prompted the state insurance department to seize control of the fund.The owner of the funeral home, John W....
Jul 25 2006 // Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro moved to intervene in the case against the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma’s claim for lands in Ohio.In May 2005, the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma filed this suit claiming that...