All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Oct 3 2017 // An emergency medical care provider in Oklahoma has authorized its attorneys to take a liability insurance company to court if needed to force the business to pay a claim aimed at covering legal costs.Emergency Medical...
Sep 29 2017 // A.M. Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” to Trisura Specialty Insurance Co. (Trisura Specialty), based in Oklahoma City. The ratings...
Sep 26 2017 // Many Oklahoma residents are out of the workforce despite the state’s low unemployment rates.The Tulsa World reports that about 25 percent of state residents between ages 25 and 54 don’t have a job. Shelley...
Sep 22 2017 // Americans are still buying homes in areas with high risk of natural hazards and the homes in those cities continue to appreciate in value far faster than homes in low natural hazard locales.However, the effect on home...
Sep 18 2017 // Dallas-based insurance and risk management firm Dexter & Company has added Jeff Twitty to its team as senior vice president and promoted Stephen Bivins to vice president.A seasoned insurance professional with more than...
Sep 15 2017 // Workers’ compensation loss costs for 2018 will decrease by 16.3 percent in Oklahoma according to a filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission...
Sep 5 2017 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak has issued a cease and desist order to a former insurance agent in Cushing.The Oklahoma Insurance Department reported that investigators discovered Mark Lauderdale, whose...
Sep 4 2017 // Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system seems to have benefited from reforms that were initiated in 2013, at least in terms of premium costs for businesses.By the end of 2016, employers in Oklahoma had seen a...
Aug 25 2017 // The Oklahoma Geological Survey has proposed to install more than 70 permanent seismic stations across the state that would allow scientists to better study earthquakes.The $3.5 million proposal would be placed in a grid...
Aug 23 2017 // Researchers are turning to the sky to help stop earthquakes from rumbling deep beneath the Oklahoma soil.The U.S. Geological Survey in coordination with the Oklahoma Geological Survey and other groups last week began using...
Aug 22 2017 // Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system seems to have benefited from reforms that were initiated in 2013, at least in terms of premium costs for businesses.By the end of 2016, employers in Oklahoma had seen a...
Aug 21 2017 // A Payne County judge has distributed $100,000 in insurance money to victims of a 2015 homecoming parade crash at Oklahoma State University that killed four people and injured dozens more. Associate District Judge Stephen...
Aug 21 2017 // In testimony on Capitol Hill in early August, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak told federal lawmakers that fraud across all lines of insurance costs the industry an estimated $80 million to $100 million...