All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 8 2013 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak has crisscrossed the state in state-owned aircraft on his mission to educate the public and reach out to constituents.As a result, Doak is the top statewide elected official using...
Jan 7 2013 // Injecting a rare shot of bipartisanship in the nation’s contentious health care overhaul, the Obama administration Thursday cleared four Republican-led states to build their own consumer-friendly insurance...
Jan 7 2013 // The mother of a Booker T. Washington High School girls basketball player is seeking more than $75,000 in damages from Tulsa Public Schools, Twitter and others after a picture of her daughter in her underwear was circulated...
Jan 4 2013 // The Oklahoma State Chamber says shifting the state’s court-based workers’ compensation system to an administrative model will be one of its top priorities for the upcoming legislative session. The powerful...
Jan 4 2013 // The House of Representatives voted today 354-67 to increase the borrowing authority of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by $9.7 billion.The Senate, which already approved a similar increase but as part of a...
Jan 3 2013 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department is mourning the loss of former Deputy Insurance Commissioner Horace Rhodes. Rhodes, 86, died Jan. 1 after a long illness, the department announced.“I am deeply saddened to hear about...
Jan 3 2013 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which administers the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), has notified Congress that without the approval of additional borrowing authority, funds available to pay...
Jan 3 2013 // Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired CFR Inc. (CFR), a Tulsa, Okla.–based insurance brokerage firm. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.The operations will form a new regional Hub called Hub International...
Jan 3 2013 // InVEST, the insurance industry career education program, announced that Denise Johnson has joined its national board. Johnson is vice president and insurance producer of ECI Agency in Piedmont, Okla. Johnson is former...
Dec 31 2012 // A lawyer who wants to sue Connecticut for $100 million on behalf of a 6-year-old survivor of the Newtown school shooting says the potential claim is about improving school security, not money.Attorney Irving Pinsky says...
Dec 26 2012 // Christmas Day along the Gulf Coast was filled with severe thunderstorms that brought drenching rains, high winds and damaging tornadoes while the nation’s midsection dealt with freezing rain, sleet and snow that made...
Dec 19 2012 // Teachers and school administrators who receive proper training would be authorized to carry firearms on school campuses and at school events under a bill being drafted by an Oklahoma lawmaker.Republican Rep. Mark...
Dec 17 2012 // A Republican state senator from Seminole says he’ll reintroduce a proposal to allow illegal immigrants to work in Oklahoma. Sen. Harry Coates of Seminole says he’s filed a bill to allow illegal immigrants who...
Dec 14 2012 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department faced intense criticism after a report revealed it spent more than $180,000 on high-tech shotguns, bulletproof vests and seven police-package vehicles for its anti-fraud unit. Now, the...
Dec 14 2012 // Gov. Mary Fallin has appointed a Tulsa judge as the new presiding judge of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court.Fallin announced that Judge L. Brad Taylor will replace Judge Michael Harkey as the presiding judge...
Dec 10 2012 // Gov. Mary Fallin’s decision to reject federal money to expand Oklahoma’s Medicaid program has led a member of the Oklahoma State Board of Health to resign.“It’s like federal funds are suddenly...
Dec 10 2012 // Charles C. Caldwell, CEO of Oklahoma-based Caldwell and Partners Inc. (CAP), announced the acquisition of Midlands Holding Corp. (MHC) from PMA Capital Corp. (PMA).Midlands Management Corp. (Midlands), a subsidiary of MHC,...
Dec 7 2012 // The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved legislation to punish Russian human rights violators as part of a broader bill to expand U.S. trade with Washington’s former Cold War enemy.Passage of the bill, by a 92-4 vote,...
Dec 6 2012 // Kristina E. Donaldson, a commercial insurance account manager with Messer-Bowers Co. in Enid, Okla., who was named Risk Management Professional of the Year at the Region VI Conference of the International Association of...
Dec 4 2012 // A monthly economic index report suggests an economic slump will continue over the next three to six months for nine Midwest and Plains states.The Mid-America Business Conditions index rose slightly in November to a weak...