All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 14 2018 // A report from Oklahoma State University says wildfires that scorched western and northwestern parts of the state and killed two in April caused an estimated $26 million in damage to livestock, pastures, fences and...
May 10 2018 // Arrest warrants have been issued for two New York financiers after prosecutors filed charges in Oklahoma state court relating to the purchase and handling of a now-defunct Oklahoma insurance company that the pair once...
May 10 2018 // Oklahoma oil and natural gas regulators have instructed the operators of 23 wastewater disposal wells to reduce their disposal volumes due to recent earthquakes in Garfield County.The Oklahoma Corporation Commission issued...
May 10 2018 // Republican Gov. John Kasich is opening all of Ohio’s public roads to smart vehicle testing. Kasich signed an executive order authorizing autonomous vehicle research to take place across the state. The order also lays...
May 9 2018 // Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm based in Deerfield, Illinois, has acquired Benefit Plan Strategies (BPS), headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Alera...
May 7 2018 // A bill aimed at prevented insurance companies from cancelling, non-renewing or increasing consumers’ insurance premiums for filing a towing or roadside assistance claim failed to advance in Oklahoma’s...
May 7 2018 // Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says home and business owners in Dewey County who sustained uninsured damage from wildfires can now receive disaster assistance from the U.S. Small Business Administration. Fallin says the...
May 7 2018 // Kristi Koncaba, president and chief operating officer at Texan Bank, has been appointed to the board of directors for workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co.Koncaba has 15 years of experience in...
May 7 2018 // Oklahoma has a new vendor for licensing exams for insurance professionals and bail bondsman.The Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) reported that Prometric will develop and deliver exam content for all of OID’s...
May 4 2018 // Thousands of ancient clay tablets, seals and other Iraqi archaeological objects that were smuggled into the U.S. and shipped to the head of the Oklahoma-based arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby were returned to the Iraqi...
May 4 2018 // The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has led seven vehicle chases over the last year resulting in eight deaths.Two who died were uninvolved motorists, and the latest to die was one of the agency’s lieutenants, the Tulsa World...
May 2 2018 // Oklahoma has a new vendor for licensing exams for insurance professionals and bail bondsman.The Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) reported that Prometric will develop and deliver exam content for all of OID’s...
May 2 2018 // Dozens of insurance companies are now offering discounts to Oklahomans who have built or retrofitted their homes to certain tornado-resilient standards, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced.A new law went into...
May 2 2018 // Swiss Re’s reinsurance business unit has a newly-approved license for property/casualty business in South Africa. The move completes Swiss Re’s pan to re-domicile its Southern African P/C business onto the...
May 1 2018 // This year’s weather on the Southern Plains has an odd twist: Oklahoma has yet to record its first tornado, the deepest into the year it’s gone without one since 1962.Although a drought has dried up moisture...
Apr 24 2018 // The chair of the Tulsa County Democratic Party has entered the race to become Oklahoma’s next insurance commissioner.Kimberly Fobbs currently is the only Democrat who has filed to run for the insurance...
Apr 23 2018 // Authorities are investigating the possibility of arson in connection with one of two large wildfires burning in Oklahoma, a blaze that’s resulted in the death of one person.Dewey County Sheriff Clay Sander said that...
Apr 23 2018 // Bermuda-based property/casualty insurer and reinsurer Sompo International Holdings Ltd. said it has received the regulatory approvals from the Ministry of Finance of Luxembourg to establish a new subsidiary, SI Insurance...
Apr 20 2018 // Firefighters are hoping higher humidity and milder winds will help them fight wildfires in Oklahoma, though conditions are critical in Arizona and New Mexico.U.S. Forest Service spokesman Todd Schroeder said on April 19...
Apr 17 2018 // Wildfires have killed two people and burned more than 400,000 acres in western Oklahoma, and dry, windy weather already hindering firefighting efforts there will only get worse as the week progresses, fire and forestry...