All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 7 2004 // Physicians Liability Insurance Corporation (PLICO), a nonprofit insurer that provides liability coverage to Oklahoma doctors plans to increase its rates this summer, but said it won’t raise premiums again until 2007....
Jun 1 2004 // The American Insurance Association lauded the Oklahoma Legislature’s approval of what the AIA called “a landmark rating bill,” which institutes a file and use system for all lines of insurance except...
May 28 2004 // Oklahoma’s House of Representatives approved HB 2661, the tort reform bill, on a 68-32 vote Thursday afternoon. The State Senate was to take up the legislation for final passage Friday morning.In response to the...
May 24 2004 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said the state has settled its lawsuit in the Webbers Falls Arkansas River bridge collapse.The settlement calls for the defendants to pay the state $4.5 million. The attorney...
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...