All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 21 2004 // Darwin Professional Underwriters Inc. (Darwin) announced approval by the Oklahoma Department of Insurance of Platte River Insurance Company to write hospital professional liability coverage on an admitted basis in...
May 21 2004 // The Oklahoma Senate reported that a special joint House-Senate Committee on Tort Reform has already adopted a provision lauded by medical professionals in a front page story in a Wall Street Journal as the most effective...
May 19 2004 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry announced that the state Legislature would meet in a special session so that the committee looking into alleged infractions by Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher can complete its investigation....
May 18 2004 // Physicians Liability Insurance Corporation (PLICO), a nonprofit insurance company that provides coverage to more than 70 percent of Oklahoma doctors plans to increase its rates this summer, but promised not to raise its...
May 11 2004 // The Oklahoma House of Representatives Media Division reported that Governor Brad Henry has established a work group to examine pending workers’ compensation legislation in an effort to reach consensus on a reform...
May 10 2004 // Great Central Insurance Company, a member of San Antonio-based Argonaut Group Inc.‘s Specialty Commercial segment, announced it was named the endorsed insurance company for the Oklahoma Restaurant Association (ORA)...
May 5 2004 // A Multicounty Grand Jury indictment naming a former Tulsa, Oklahoma firefighter was unsealed recently in Rogers County District Court, Attorney General Drew Edmondson said. William Bradford Adams, 49, was indicted April 14...
May 3 2004 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher announced that medical malpractice insurers, Physicians Liability Insurance Co. (PLICO) and Hospital Casualty Co., have been placed under formal supervision by the Oklahoma...
Apr 29 2004 // Hailstorms that hit central Oklahoma a week ago caused more than $75 million in damage, according to preliminary estimates released by the Oklahoma Insurance Department.The Associated Press reported that an estimate of $75...
Apr 28 2004 // A team of attorneys and consumer advocates will be in place by week’s end to investigate complaints by hundreds of victims of last fall’s Southern California wildfires that their insurance companies...
Apr 27 2004 // Several workers’ compensation reforms proposed in a pair of Oklahoma House of Represenatives bills that died in the Senate had new life breathed into them by amendments the House attached to Senate Bill...
Apr 23 2004 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher announced that officials with Physicians Liability Insurance Co. (PLICO) and Hospital Casualty Co. have signed agreements placing the two companies under formal supervision by...
Apr 22 2004 // Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher recently announced that a request for a rate hike by Oklahoma’s third largest writer of medical malpractice insurance has been approved.The Oklahoma Insurance Department reported...
Apr 19 2004 // Oklahoma State Senate President Pro Tempore Cal Hobson announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will not hear House Bill 2619, which addresses the state’s workers’ compensation system. Hobson said the bill...
Apr 15 2004 // The Oklahoma State Senate approved House Bill 2661 and sent the measure to a House-Senate Conference Committee.According to the Senate Communications Divisions, 23 members of a special House-Senate committee on tort reform...
Apr 14 2004 // Manulife Financial Corporation has received approval from the Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) for its proposed merger with John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. The DOI is the principal U.S. regulator for John...
Apr 14 2004 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said charges his office filed against a home repairman should serve as a warning to consumers to be on the lookout for home repair scams that often go along with Oklahoma’s...
Apr 12 2004 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department issued a bulletin clarifying a previous communication on agent records that said hard copies must be maintained.In the new bulletin, the Department noted that “hard copies” are...
Apr 9 2004 // Oklahoma state Senator Mike Morgan, D-Stillwater, and state Representative Jari Askins, D-Duncan, announced a schedule for four issue-oriented hearings on tort reform.Morgan and Askins co-chair a special 23-member joint...
Apr 6 2004 // Oklahoma’s Speaker of the House, Larry Adair, and Senate President Pro Tempore Cal Hobson announced the formation of a 23-member bipartisan joint committee on lawsuit reform.The committee, which will be led by...