All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 5 2020 // Gordon Amini, general counsel of the Oklahoma Insurance Department, will retire at the end of the year.During his 43-year career as corporate legal and regulatory counsel, Amini was a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association...
Nov 2 2020 // AmWINS, CRC, HeffernanWholesaler insurance brokers AmWINS and CRC, along with independent agency Heffernan Insurance Brokers, are the charter members of a new alliance to accelerate technology improvements in the...
Oct 30 2020 // More than 350,000 homes and businesses in Oklahoma were without electricity on Oct. 28 as cleanup continued from an ice storm that ravaged much of the state.By midmorning on Oct. 28, more than 356,000 homes and businesses...
Oct 28 2020 // Tyson Foods said on Tuesday it plans in January to have company employees take on duties from more than a dozen federal inspectors at a large Kansas beef plant, after getting a U.S. government waiver.Tyson said the change...
Oct 26 2020 // A magnitude 3.2 earthquake shook an area on the Kansas-Oklahoma line on Oct. 22, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The tremor struck at 8:17 p.m. and was centered in a remote area 22 miles (35 kilometers) northwest of...
Oct 22 2020 // Self-driving car maker Cruise said on Wednesday it and majority shareholder General Motors Co. would seek U.S. regulatory approval in coming months to deploy a limited number of Cruise Origin vehicles without steering...
Oct 16 2020 // The District Court of Oklahoma County has approved Providence Washington Insurance Company (PWIC) to complete its Insurance Business Transfer (IBT) Plan, making it the first such transfer in the United States, according to...
Oct 14 2020 // A 9.6 percent decrease in Oklahoma workers’ compensation insurance loss costs for 2021 has been approved by the state’s insurance commissioner.According to Commissioner Glen Mulready and the Oklahoma Insurance...
Oct 13 2020 // Relation Insurance Services (Relation), a privately owned insurance brokerage that offers property/casualty, risk management, employee benefits, and TPA-consulting services through its family of brands across the United...
Oct 12 2020 // The U.S. Chamber of Commerce can support Johnson & Johnson’s bid to overturn a $465 million judgement against the opioid manufacturer, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled.The court allowed the Chamber along with...
Sep 4 2020 // First United Insurance in Durant, Oklahoma, has added Erick Johnson as vice president and insurance commercial lines producer.Johnson joins First United with over 17 years of experience in the insurance industry. He...
Aug 24 2020 // Face mask mandates adopted in some Oklahoma communities to reduce the spread of COVID-19 seem to be working, according to a newspaper report.Data from the Oklahoma State Department of Health shows cities with mask mandates...
Aug 24 2020 // President Donald Trump has approved Federal Emergency Management Agency funding for eastern Iowa’s Linn County, which was the county that was hardest hit by last week’s rare hurricane-strength windstorm.Gov....
Aug 24 2020 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is set to announce it will issue an emergency exemption to the state of Texas permitting it to allow American Airlines Group Inc. to use a new surface coating that kills...
Aug 20 2020 // Facebook Inc. won preliminary approval late on Wednesday from a federal court for settlement of a lawsuit that claimed it illegally collected and stored biometric data of millions of users without their consent.The social...
Aug 14 2020 // The conditions of Oklahoma’s highway bridges used to be ranked as some of the worst by federal highway officials. A new ranking by the Federal Highway Administration shows they have achieved the status of the some of...
Aug 12 2020 // A BNSF Railways train derailment in western Oklahoma on Aug. 10 was “likely” caused by wind gusts of up to 70 mph (113 kph), National Weather Service meteorologist Phillip Ware said.The strong winds and the...
Aug 12 2020 // A state lawmaker in Oklahoma is launching an interim study on how COVID-19 has affected employment and wages in that state.State Rep. Forrest Bennett, D-OKC, said in a media release that he hopes to focus the study on what...
Aug 5 2020 // Oklahoma’s reported coronavirus cases rose by 377, and the state added another death due to the illness caused by the virus, the Oklahoma State Department of Health said.Oklahoma has confirmed 38,602 cases of...
Jul 30 2020 // Refunds, dividends, credits, or other appropriate premium adjustments automobile insurance companies have offered to their customers due to the COVID-19 pandemic have saved Oklahoma drivers $164 million, the state...