All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 4 2018 // “According to CoreLogic, a leading source for flood and disaster risk data, approximately 70 percent of the flood damage from Hurricane Harvey was uninsured….” states Clearsurance in their recently...
Jan 4 2018 // Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Mid-Continent Group, a member of Great American Insurance Group, has completed a renewal rights agreement with Tank Owner Members Insurance Company (TOMIC) to acquire TOMIC’s book of...
Jan 3 2018 // Howell-Stone Insurance Inc., based in Oklahoma City, has joined Tulsa, Oklahoma-headquartered Rich & Cartmill Inc., effective Jan. 1, 2018.The affiliation will combine the strengths of both organizations to allow Rich...
Jan 2 2018 // The Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC) has updated its organizational chart and changed the names of an internal division and a working group. The commission reported that the changes reflect an effort to more...
Dec 29 2017 // An Oklahoma school and its board of directors are being sued on behalf of 15 girls who say they were molested by a teacher’s aide.The federal lawsuit filed last week in Oklahoma City seeks unspecified damages from...
Dec 28 2017 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that hundreds of restaurants in the state overcharged customers for mixed drinks.Lawsuits filed in 2011 by Tom Erbar and John Truel alleged restaurants...
Dec 28 2017 // Regulators and scientists say the number of 3.0 magnitude or stronger earthquakes in Oklahoma is declining.The Oklahoma Geological Survey reports the number of quakes of at least that magnitude during 2017 was 294 through...
Dec 21 2017 // Deliveries by drones took a step closer to being allowed in the U.S. after a federal advisory panel agreed on a framework for allowing law enforcement to routinely track the small devices.The committee’s report to...
Dec 20 2017 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that a new drunken-driving law that created a new program for first-time DUI offenders and abolished the appeals process for those trying to keep their licenses after a DUI arrest is...
Dec 20 2017 // Insurtech company, Lemonade, has received a Certificate of Authority to do business in Arkansas.Lemonade Insurance Co. has been approved to sell property, casualty and marine products in Arkansas with an initial limit to...
Dec 13 2017 // The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC) announced that Executive Director Kim Bailey has resigned and Administrative Law Judge Patricia Sommer has been appointed to lead the agency in the interim. Bailey...
Dec 6 2017 // Two earthquakes, including one given a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 have been recorded in northern Oklahoma.The U.S. Geological Survey reports the quake struck just before 10:30 p.m. near Stillwater, about 65 miles (105...
Dec 4 2017 // Conditions are ripe for winter wildfires from the mid-South through the Great Plains thanks to a combination of weather factors, including the climate phenomenon known as La Nina, that have left a lot of dry growth.In...
Dec 1 2017 // Forestry officials diverted a surveillance plane from its assigned path because a drone hovered above a northern Arkansas wildfire, prompting them to caution people that airborne efforts to take unique photographs endanger...
Nov 30 2017 // Following weeks of emotional and detailed debate over where to allow new stores, San Francisco supervisors approved regulations for the sale of recreational marijuana when it becomes legal in California in January.The San...
Nov 28 2017 // Almost 200 new volunteer firefighters have joined rural fire departments in Oklahoma two years after successful legislation eliminated the age limit for new volunteers, according to state lawmakers.House Bill 2005,...
Nov 22 2017 // A federal jury has awarded a transgender woman more than $1 million after finding Southeastern Oklahoma State University discriminated against her and wrongfully denied her tenure.The Oklahoman newspaper reports jurors...
Nov 20 2017 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department has joined an international supervisory cooperation and information exchange agreement.According to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), since the first...
Nov 16 2017 // Oklahoma’s former lead seismologist says he felt pressured by an official at the University of Oklahoma to not link the state’s surge in earthquakes to oil and gas production.The Tulsa World reports that Austin...
Nov 9 2017 // The Oklahoma Transportation Commission has approved a work plan that calls for repairing or replacing nearly 400 county bridges and improving hundreds of miles of county roads over the next five years.About $926 million in...