All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 9 2017 // After a series of small to moderate earthquakes in central Oklahoma, two companies are being told to reduce the amount of wastewater they inject into the ground.About a dozen quakes have struck just south of Hennessey,...
Nov 6 2017 // In an unpublished opinion decided Oct. 24, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that a state law aimed at curtailing the filing of medical malpractice lawsuits is unconstitutional.The Court came to that conclusion in reviewing...
Nov 6 2017 // Emergency managers say an Oklahoma casino had part of its roof torn off by an EF1 tornado during a concert that the state’s governor was attending in late October.The twister touched down in Cleveland County, one of...
Nov 1 2017 // Several rural hospitals have filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma, alleging the insurance company plans to slash provider reimbursement rates.The lawsuit alleges that the four...
Nov 1 2017 // Austin, Texas-based agency partner group, Combined Agents of America (CAA), is expanding in Oklahoma with the addition of Eitzen Agency Inc. Eitzen Agency Inc. (EAI) is a family-owned insurance agency based in Fairview,...
Oct 27 2017 // In an unpublished opinion decided Oct. 24, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that a state law aimed at curtailing the filing of medical malpractice lawsuits is unconstitutional.The Court came to that conclusion in reviewing...
Oct 25 2017 // Emergency managers say an Oklahoma casino had part of its roof torn off by an EF1 tornado during a concert that the state’s governor was attending.The twister touched down in Cleveland County, one of several counties...
Oct 24 2017 // Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter says William Stephens, the owner of Tornado King, a storm shelter manufacturing and installation company, pleaded no contest to six counts of embezzlement and one count of a pattern of...
Oct 24 2017 // Alliant Employee Benefits, a division of Alliant Insurance Services, has hired 30-year industry veteran Brad Williams as a vice president in Oklahoma City.Williams will work with medium-to-large-size organizations,...
Oct 24 2017 // A settlement has been reached between two Oklahoma oil and natural gas companies and a woman injured in a 2011 earthquake.Prague resident Sandra Ladra filed the lawsuit in 2014 against New Dominion LLC, Spess Oil Co. and...
Oct 23 2017 // Emergency managers and the National Weather Service are surveying damage from storms that spawned as many as four tornadoes in southwest Oklahoma.Meteorologist John Pike says officials were in Tillman, Comanche, McClain...
Oct 18 2017 // The former mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is suing an insurance company and broker because she says the $4 million she received for a lost blue diamond ring isn’t enough.The Tulsa World reports that Kathy Taylor’s...
Oct 16 2017 // For Kalon Moore and Jackson Rollins, it’s a sight they never tire of.Just about every day on the job, the two look out at the Oklahoma landscape in every direction for miles, several hundred feet atop a wind turbine....
Oct 16 2017 // Some residents of Velma have returned to their homes after a leak in a natural gas well forced them to evacuate.Velma Fire Chief Jay Dumas said Saturday that a buildup of pressure caused the Stephens County well head to...
Oct 16 2017 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court, by a vote of 5 to 3, with one recusal, has overturned another part of Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation law.The Court on Oct. 3 ruled in Brandon Gibby v. Hobby Lobby, filed by Hobby...
Oct 12 2017 // Participants in an Oklahoma-based substance recovery program allege they were required to work at a poultry processing plant without compensation under the threat of incarceration. Three participants filed a federal...
Oct 11 2017 // A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit over the 2013 death of a diabetic man who was denied medical treatment at a county jail in Oklahoma, according to court records.McClain County commissioners will pay...
Oct 9 2017 // The Oklahoma Ethics Commission is considering a rule change that would ban all state employees and officials from lobbying for two years after their tenure ends.The proposed rule change would create what Oklahoma officials...
Oct 5 2017 // A divided Oklahoma Supreme Court has overturned part of Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation law concerning how workers are compensated for their on-the-job injuries.The court handed down the 5-3 decision with one...
Oct 4 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to an Indiana-based company to begin selling insurance products in Arkansas.Kerr has approved American Inter-Fidelity Exchange of...