All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 21 2005 // Faced with embezzlement and perjury charges stemming from the time when he held office, former Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher is seeking to have his trial moved out of Oklahoma County, according to the...
Nov 20 2005 // ArkansasMobile Home Lawsuit Dismissed The Arkansas Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit filed by Nationwide Mutu-al Fire Insurance Co. over payment of a claim after a mobile home caught fire in Beebe, Ark. The Associated...
Nov 10 2005 // Former Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher, who’s facing charges of embezzlement and perjury, wants a judge to move his trial out of Oklahoma County, according to the Associated Press and the...
Nov 7 2005 // Oklahoma Ins-urance Commiss-ioner Kim Holland has ordered Dan Lyon to stop conducting unauthorized business involving insurance in Oklahoma. The commissioner’s order states that Lyon provided a surety bond that may...
Nov 6 2005 // Arkansas2006 Comp Rates Released The Arkansas Workers’ Compens-ation Commission released its revised Advisory 2000-1, which describes the maximum and minimum rates to be paid to employees who suffer job-related...
Oct 27 2005 // An Oklahoma multicounty grand jury that is believed to be continuing an investigation of activities involving Carroll Fisher, the impeached state insurance commissioner, has resumed its work, according to an Associated...
Oct 27 2005 // An Oklahoma program that begins Nov. 1 will use tobacco taxes and federal funds to subsidize small businesses wanting to provide insurance to their employees.Officials estimate the program will help 50,000 to 70,000...
Oct 26 2005 // The Young Agents of Oklahoma announced their next Lunch Bunch meeting will take place Nov. 15 at the Spaghetti Warehouse in Tulsa. The lunch, which takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., will feature an update on the...
Oct 25 2005 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced she has ordered Dan Lyon to stop conducting unauthorized business involving insurance in Oklahoma. The order states Lyon provided a surety bond that may be illegal to...
Oct 20 2005 // Medical malpractice insurers writing in New Hampshire will be required to get advance approval of any rate changes during the next year following an order by Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny.The switch to prior...
Oct 18 2005 // Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced that the Oklahoma Insurance Department will issue expedited temporary licenses to volunteers who are assisting senior citizens to enroll in the new Medicare Part D Prescription...
Oct 17 2005 // In addition to natural disasters, health care coverage, federal oversight, uniformity and fraud were among issues of concern to the insurance commissioners of three states who comprised the Commis-sioners’ Panel at...
Oct 17 2005 // ArkansasEmployment up in Ark. A recent report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. showed that employment in Ar-kansas is at a high point-1.1734million-but warned that hurricane refugees could strain state...
Oct 3 2005 // Oklahoma Insu-rance Commissioner Kim Holland issued a Cease and Desist Order to a Seminole businessman suspected of writing his own surety bonds to cover costs associated with plugging abandoned oil and gas wells.The...
Oct 3 2005 // ARKANSASThe Workers’ Compensation Research Institute reported that Ar-kansas’ workers’ compensation system has experienced a period of stability after extensive reforms were passed in 1993, but maintained...
Sep 28 2005 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson and Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland this week warned of yet another potential impact from the hurricanes that recently hit the gulf coast. Flood-damaged cars could soon be making...
Sep 26 2005 // A former Bartlesville, Okla., firefighter who is a member of the Bartlesville Professional Firefighters Association is accused of embezzling $166,653 from the firefighters insurance fund, the Associated Press...
Sep 20 2005 // The Oklahoma Labor Department announced its nationally recognized Safety Pays OSHA Consultation Program is the focus of a statewide radio outreach promotion that began Sept. 19.The 30-second spots are intended to boost...
Sep 1 2005 // Michael Brown, under secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response and head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced recently that FEMA has awarded 11 mitigation grants in...
Aug 30 2005 // The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies announced a 10.5 percent reduction in workers’ compensation rates for its Oklahoma business customers reportedly due to an improving insurance marketplace.This 10.5 percent...