Latest Oklahoma Headlines
All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oklahoma’s Price Gouging Statute in Effect Following Storms
May 12 2010 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said the state’s price gouging law is in effect in 56 Oklahoma counties following Gov. Brad Henry’ declared a state of emergency for those areas devastated by severe...
People
May 3 2010 // Regional property/casualty insurance company, The Republic Group, based in Dallas, announced that Jim Drawert, vice president – Industry Relations, will retire June 30. Prior to joining Republic in 2003, Drawert was...
Grinnell Mutual Issues First Oklahoma Auto Policies
Apr 28 2010 // Iowa-based Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company has issued its first auto policies in the state of Oklahoma, the company announced. Through its longtime relationship with Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company in Okarche,...
Oklahoma House Passes Workers’ Compensation Reform Measure
Apr 22 2010 // Legislation aimed at improving the state’s workers’ compensation system for injured workers and reducing costs for Oklahoma employers has passed the House of Representatives. Senate Bill 1973, by Rep. Dan...
Oklahoma Lawmaker Wants to Send Work Comp Claims to Civil Courts
Apr 21 2010 // Oklahoma State Rep. Ken Luttrell is proposing a complete overhaul of Oklahoma’s worker’s compensation system that would result in sending all workers’ compensation claims to district civil...
Declarations
Apr 19 2010 // Big Rig Giveaway “I like Volvos. … I really like the style of the new ones.” —Ron Terrill, an Oklahoma truck driver, said he entered Great American Insurance Group’s “Big Rig Giveaway,”...
Oklahoma’s Insurica Adds Rosenhamer to Surety Practice
Apr 19 2010 // Oklahoma City-based Insurica Insurance Management Network has hired Dillon B. Rosenhamer of Edmond, Okla., to augment the company’s surety practice. Rosenhamer has experience in the banking industry, most recently as...
Oklahoma Governor Vetoes Bill on Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 15 2010 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has vetoed a bill calling for additional penalties for those who commit workers’ compensation fraud. House Bill 2894 would have required employees convicted of workers’ comp fraud to...
Oklahoma Gov. Signs Legislation on Distracted Driving
Apr 14 2010 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has signed into law a piece of legislation that will allow law enforcement to cite drivers who drive dangerously while using their cell phone, but prohibit them from initiating a traffic stop...
Arkansas, Oklahoma Record Minor Earthquakes
Apr 12 2010 // The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded another earthquake in central Oklahoma, and an additional one in central Arkansas as well. A 3.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded at 7:42 a.m. April 8 about two miles southwest of...
Workers’ Comp Reform Bill Passes Oklahoma House Committee
Apr 8 2010 // Legislation reforming the Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation court and system has passed a state House of Representatives committee. Reform of the state’s workers’ compensation has been a priority for...
Oklahoma Trucker Wins Great American’s 2010 ‘Big Rig Giveaway’
Apr 8 2010 // A single dad from Oklahoma is the latest winner of the “Big Rig Giveaway,” sponsored by Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group. Ron Terrill was on the road driving for a national motor carrier...
Oklahoma Raises $65M Selling Data; Customers Include Insurance Cos.
Apr 6 2010 // The state of Oklahoma has collected at least $65 million in the past five years by selling personal information from motor vehicle records, according to newspaper reports. Wellon Poe, the chief legal counsel for the...
Motorcycle Safety Bills Pass in Oklahoma
Apr 6 2010 // Increasing motorcycle registrations and a rise in motorcycle-related fatalities in Oklahoma have prompted passage in the state Legislature of a pair of measures aimed at improving motorcycle safety. HB 2264,...
Oklahoma Seeks Receivership of Imperial Casualty and Indemnity
Apr 5 2010 // Oklahoma insurance regulators have moved to seize a workers’ compensation insurer they say is insolvent and whose owners are being accused of deceptive financial transactions involving another recently-liquidated...
Measure to Privatize Oklahoma’s Compsource Dead for the Year
Apr 5 2010 // While a number workers’ compensation reform bills have made progress in the Oklahoma legislature this year, proposed measures that would have privatized the state agency that serves as the workers’ compensation...
Survey: Midwest Economy Shows Modest Growth Trends
Apr 2 2010 // Business conditions in the Midwest are generally on an upward swing, according to a survey of supply managers and business leaders in the region. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group, directed by Creighton University...
State Rep.: Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Court Officials Should Go
Apr 1 2010 // Saying the state’s Workers’ Compensation Court has for years stonewalled legislative records requests, state Rep. Mike Reynolds has called for the dismissal of the court’s administrator, Marcia Davis, and...
Oklahoma GOP Forges Ahead With Workers’ Comp Overhaul
Mar 18 2010 // Oklahoma Senate Republicans are continuing their push to completely overhaul Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation laws, arguing the system is too expensive for businesses. The Senate Judiciary Committee has...
Measure to Privatize Oklahoma’s Compsource Dead for the Year
Mar 12 2010 // The author of legislation authorizing the sale of Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation insurance agency said he does not have enough votes to pass it in the state House and that the bill appears dead for the...
