All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 4 2012 // Defending his agency’s expenditures on weapons and police vehicles for use by its anti-fraud unit, Oklahoma’s top insurance regulator said the purchases help ensure the safety of investigators and are not paid...
Dec 3 2012 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department spent more than $180,000 on high-tech shotguns, bulletproof vests and seven police-package vehicles that agency officials say were needed as part of its expanded focus on criminal...
Dec 3 2012 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak said a security breach at an Ohio-based insurer has compromised the personal information of 534 Oklahomans.Doak said the computer network used by Nationwide Insurance Co. of...
Dec 3 2012 // Cost v. Safety“I am not necessarily against the ordinance, but business owners need to know exactly what to do. We don’t want fines, and we don’t want to have to spend a whole lot of money on cameras,...
Nov 26 2012 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak says a security breach at an Ohio-based insurer has compromised the personal information of 534 Oklahomans. Doak says the computer network used by Nationwide Insurance Co. of...
Nov 21 2012 // A federal judge has rejected Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby Stores Inc.’s request to block part of the federal health care overhaul that requires the arts and craft supply company to provide insurance coverage for the...
Nov 20 2012 // A safety checkpoint in Tulsa County on Nov. 17 netted 31 citations for driving without auto insurance. Law enforcement officers towed 11 of those uninsured vehicles. The checkpoint was the result of a partnership between...
Nov 19 2012 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) and the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office have teamed up to address Oklahoma’s uninsured driver problem. Law enforcement officers from both agencies will work together to...
Nov 19 2012 // Former Oklahoma insurance agent Marshall Virden has been sentenced to two years in prison for defrauding senior citizens in Wagoner County, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced. The punishment comes after a lengthy...
Nov 14 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to positive from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of B++ (Good) and issuer credit rating of “bbb+” of National American Insurance Co. (NAICO) in Chandler,...
Nov 14 2012 // Despite reform attempts, Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation insurance rates continue to be among the most expensive in the country, according to a recent study.The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business...
Nov 9 2012 // Former Oklahoma insurance agent Marshall Virden has been sentenced to two years in prison for defrauding senior citizens in Wagoner County, the Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) announced. The punishment comes after a...
Nov 1 2012 // With Oklahoma preparing for a much-debated new law that allows people to carry their previously concealed firearms out in the open, state officials say they’ve seen a big increase in the number of residents seeking a...
Oct 26 2012 // The mother of a Claremore man found dead last year at an eastern Oklahoma drug rehab center with ties to the Church of Scientology filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Wednesday against the facility, alleging staff was...
Oct 24 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings to “bbb” from “a-” of Columbia Lloyds Insurance Co. (Columbia Lloyds) and its...
Oct 22 2012 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department and the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) have teamed up to warn residents in the state’s wildfire disaster zones about contractor fraud. The department and the NICB are using...
Oct 22 2012 // An appeals panel has upheld a controversial ruling that Oklahoma state Rep. Mike Christian is due workers’ compensation benefits for injuries he suffered in a 2009 traffic accident. The panel, however, cut the...
Oct 22 2012 // Matthew Nichols has been elected president of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices Ltd. (NAPSLO) for the 2013 term.Nichols has served on the NAPSLO board since 2005 and has chaired several...
Oct 22 2012 // Property insurance claims in Oklahoma totaled $1.6 billion in 2011, according to one attorney familiar with the property insurance market in that state. Much of that was the result of catastrophic weather conditions that...
Oct 19 2012 // A second man who was injured in an explosion at a southern Oklahoma oil refinery has died.A spokesman at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City says Russell Mann of Davis died Oct. 16. Mann was injured...