All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 8 2020 // Three McDonald’s employees in Oklahoma City suffered gunshot wounds when a customer opened fire because she was angry that the restaurant’s dining area was closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, police...
May 8 2020 // An insurer that failed to pay a claim within 60 days cannot be considered the prevailing party even if a claimant is eventually awarded less than the carrier’s settlement offer, a divided Oklahoma Supreme Court...
May 7 2020 // The Oklahoma Senate has passed legislation previously approved by the state’s House of Representatives that would limit liability for healthcare providers and facilities responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.Senate...
May 6 2020 // At least 116 employees at an Oklahoma pork processing plant have tested positive for coronavirus, Seaboard Foods spokesman David Eahart said in a statement on May 4. Meanwhile, a surge of coronavirus cases in the Texas...
May 5 2020 // The Oklahoma House of Representatives has passed legislation aimed at protecting healthcare providers from liability during the COVID-19 pandemic.The House Senate Bill 300, creating the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency...
May 5 2020 // Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has refiled lawsuits against three opioid distributors in one of the state’s counties hit hardest by the opioid epidemic.The litigation previously filed as one case in Cleveland...
Apr 30 2020 // An Oklahoma-based oil and gas drilling contractor will pay $650,000 to settle a federal age and disability discrimination lawsuit.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said Horizontal Well Drillers LLC...
Apr 27 2020 // The Oklahoma Corporation Commission approved an emergency order on April 22 that allows oil producers to stop or reduce production without losing their leases for non-production.The three-member, all-Republican panel that...
Apr 24 2020 // Severe weather moved through the South on April 23 after killing at least seven people in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, including a worker at a factory hit by an apparent tornado, a man whose car was blown off the road...
Apr 23 2020 // At least six people were killed and dozens were injured when tornadoes swept through Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas on April 22, according to media reports.In a media release issued by the Texas governor’s office,...
Apr 16 2020 // The Northern California victims of catastrophic wildfires caused by Pacific Gas & Electric’s decaying electrical grid will have at least $19 million siphoned way from a $13.5 billion fund for their losses to...
Apr 9 2020 // As the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed over the past several months, participants in the insurance industry have recognized the likelihood of a resulting increase in claims volume. Much of the early focus has been on the...
Apr 8 2020 // The former owner of a chain of Oklahoma convenience stores will pay $160,000 to nine alleged victims of disability discrimination to resolve a federal lawsuit.According to the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Apr 7 2020 // The Oklahoma House has granted sweeping new powers to the governor to respond to the deadly coronavirus outbreak.The House met in special session and approved the resolution under the never-before-used Catastrophic Health...
Apr 6 2020 // Mark Friedlander and Kris Maccini have been appointed to senior communications positions at the Insurance Information Institute (III) to broaden the organization’s traditional and social media operations.As...
Apr 6 2020 // Hub International Limited, Triester, Rossman & AssociatesHub International Limited, a global insurance brokerage, has acquired Triester, Rossman & Associates Inc. Located in King of Prussia, Penn., TRA Insurance...
Apr 3 2020 // Oklahoma City-based Insurance Risk Partners (IRP) has entered into a partnership with BRP Group Inc. to become part of their BKS-Partners operating group. IRP was formed in 2016 by industry veterans Paul and David Brown,...
Apr 1 2020 // Oklahoma City-based American Farmers & Ranchers Mutual Insurance Co. (AFRMIC) has appointed Jon D. Srna as the company’s next chief executive officer. He assumes the leadership position on April 20. Srna brings...
Apr 1 2020 // In early March, well before stay at home orders were enacted in states and communities across the country, Tony Caldwell recognized that COVID-19, the disease created by the new coronavirus, was going to have a huge impact...
Mar 30 2020 // A group of Republican lawmakers from the Oklahoma House of Representatives are asking the Oklahoma Municipal League (OML), Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group (OMAG), CompSource Oklahoma and self-funded municipalities to...