All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 18 2004 // Four grand jury indictments unsealed by the Oklahoma County District Court on Feb. 17 accuse Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher mishandling continuing education funds and operating his charity illegally,...
Feb 16 2004 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carrol Fisher has been indicted, his lawyer told the Associated Press. What the indictment alleges is still unclear, though a grand jury has been investigating a Fisher-organized...
Feb 10 2004 // Independent insurance agents go to conferences and conventions to learn, to network, to meet company reps and, sometimes, just to get away. Opportunities to do all of those things abound this year for agents in Arkansas,...
Feb 9 2004 // The United States Census Bureau’s Census 2000 estimated Oklahoma’s population at 3,450,654. Approximately 81 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 20 percent had earned a...
Jan 30 2004 // Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.), who is spearheading the fight for common-sense asbestos litigation reform in the Senate, will speak to national leaders of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA)...
Jan 26 2004 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher announced that his agency recovered more than $6 million in underpaid insurance claims for Oklahoma consumers during 2003. The Consumer Assistance/Claims Division of the...
Jan 6 2004 // Dan Dunmoyer, president of the Personal Insurance Federation of California (PIFC), announced that Ron Coble, vice president and California state executive director, Farmers Insurance Group, was elected chairman of the...
Nov 26 2003 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher cut the rate increase requested by Physicians Liability Insurance Co. (PLICO) for its medical malpractice policies, but the company still received the okay to potentially...
Nov 17 2003 // Arizona officials credited an investigator from the Oklahoma Insurance Department with cracking a case involving the sales of fake bonds across the nation, according to Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher. The bonds were...
Nov 3 2003 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher will conduct a hearing Nov. 18 on a proposed increase in medical malpractice insurance rates filed by Physicians Liability Insurance Co. Under a recently enacted state law,...
Oct 29 2003 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher announced he will conduct a hearing Nov. 18, 2003 on a rate increase in medical malpractice insurance rates proposed by Physicians Liability Insurance Co. Under a recently...
Oct 28 2003 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department reported that as of Oct. 23, 2003, it is no longer accepting phone calls inquiring about the number of continuing education hours a licensee has on file with the department. Agents may...
Oct 27 2003 // After pleading no contest to a charge of driving while intoxicated, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher agreed to give up his official state car, according to Associated Press reports. He was driving his state...
Oct 20 2003 // Insurance agents are now able to renew their licenses via the Oklahoma Insurance Department Web site at www.oid.state.ok.us. Until the online service was made available, insurance agents were required to renew their...
Oct 17 2003 // Volunteers from GE Commercial Insurance will make the world a little safer for children on Wednesday, October 22. That’s when a Project Safeguard safety retrofit will be held at The Parkway Community House (500 E....
Oct 10 2003 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher reported that insurance agents are now able to renew their licenses online via the Oklahoma Insurance Department Web site. Until the service was made available, insurance...
Sep 29 2003 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher announced he has promoted Rod Stirman to the position of Director of the Real Estate Appraiser Board effective Oct. 1.As part of his duties as Insurance Commissioner, Fisher...
Sep 25 2003 // The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) does not have the authority to enact its wildly popular national Do Not Call list, the Oklahoma City U.S. District Court ruled yesterday, according to Reuters. The list was due to take...
Sep 24 2003 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher has reinstated the license of a Tulsa insurance agent accused of improper marketing after agreeing to changes in his promotional materials. Fisher earlier suspended the...
Sep 18 2003 // In a 6-4 vote Sept. 17, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) top-level Financial Condition (E)Committee gave a tentative endorsement to allowing securities broker-dealers to function additionally as...