Latest Oklahoma Headlines
All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Okla. Gov. Vetoes Tort Reform Bill
Apr 30 2007 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has vetoed a sweeping civil justice measure that would have changed the way negligence and medical malpractice lawsuits are filed and litigated in state courts. Despite his veto of the so-called...
Okla. AG Urges Gov. Henry to Veto Lawsuit Bill
Apr 27 2007 // Oklahoma’s attorney general has urged Gov. Brad Henry to veto a bill changing the rules on the civil lawsuit system, saying the legislation would cripple his ability to take legal action to protect the state and its...
Few Sign up for Okla.’s Small Business Insurance Program
Apr 25 2007 // Only 2,000 workers have signed up for a state program that helps small companies provide health insurance to their employees. Nearly $70 million sits in a special fund for the program, but employers say the plan is so...
Consumer Group Urges Veto of Okla. Tort Reform Bill
Apr 25 2007 // A consumer group urged Gov. Brad Henry to veto a massive civil justice measure, arguing that the 109-page bill is replete with anti-consumer provisions and that insurance companies it is designed to protect are making...
Okla. Multiple Injury Trust Fund Assessment Rate Set at 2.14%
Apr 25 2007 // The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court announced that the Multiple Injury Trust Fund (MITF) assessment rate to be charged for the period of July 1, 2007, through June 30, 2008, is 2.14 percent of: – gross...
Okla. Royalty Owners: Tort Reform Bill Would Keep Most Out of Settlements
Apr 24 2007 // Oklahoma’s landscape is in constant motion with the activity of oil wells, their seesaw-like movements pumping oil and natural gas to the surface and fueling the state’s economy. Oil wells are also a source of...
Business Moves
Apr 23 2007 // Brown & Brown, United Employers Insurance Brown & Brown Insurance Services of Texas Inc., a subsidiary of Fla.-based Brown & Brown Inc., acquired the assets of Houston-based United Employers Insurance Agency...
Wash. lawmakers OK Insurance Fair Conduct Act
Apr 23 2007 // Washington senators have approved a proposed Insurance Fair Conduct Act, passing it 31-18 mostly along party lines. The bill, which would prohibit the practice of delaying or denying an insurance claim without proper...
Double Duty
Apr 23 2007 // Twenty-nine year old Peter Webb served his country in the U.S. Marines for eight years. Since then, Sergeant Webb has spent four years serving small businesses as an account manager and producer for an Oklahoma City...
Okla. House Approves Civil Justice Reform Bill
Apr 20 2007 // The Oklahoma House this week passed a civil justice reform bill that supporters say will protect doctors from frivolous lawsuits that drive up the cost of malpractice insurance and medical care. The measure, supported by...
Okla. House OKs Bill to Protect Farmers, Ranchers from Frivolous Suits
Apr 17 2007 // The Oklahoma House of Representatives recently approved a bill that would protect Oklahoma’s farmers and ranchers from frivolous lawsuits claiming animal manure is toxic waste. Under Senate Bill 709, by state Sen....
Uncivil Wash. Lawmakers OK Insurance Fair Conduct Act
Apr 16 2007 // The debate was quick and anticlimatic in the Senate last week, as lawmakers approved a proposed Insurance Fair Conduct Act that touched off a major tiff on the House floor a week earlier. In less than a minute, senators...
Okla.-based Insurer Names New Executive Staff
Apr 13 2007 // Oklahoma City, Okla.-based BMSI Holdings, the holding company for BancInsure Inc., announced a number of promotions and appointments following their annual shareholders meeting in Dallas, Texas. Rodney N. Sargent was...
Declarations
Apr 9 2007 // Occupancy revoked “We can’t ignore the fact that the health and safety of the people who live there is in danger. … Conditions there are very dire.” — Frank Michel, a spokesman for Houston,...
Okla. judge orders new trial in Ford rollover lawsuit
Apr 9 2007 // A federal judge in Tulsa, Okla., ordered a new trial in a lawsuit against Ford Motor Co., finding improper conduct by a plaintiff’s attorney and vacating a $15 million jury award to a couple whose son was killed in a...
Okla. Insurance Department Awards License Testing Contract to PSI
Apr 6 2007 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced that Psychological Services Inc. (PSI) would be administering insurance license testing for the state of Oklahoma effective May 1, 2007. “This new contract means...
Measure to Curb ATV Injuries Advances in Okla.
Apr 5 2007 // A bill to require children under the age of 18 to wear crash helmets while operating or riding on an all-terrain vehicle on public land was approved by a Senate committee on April 3. The House-passed measure now goes to...
Okla. AG Warns of Potential Storm Scams
Apr 3 2007 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson is alerting consumers of the potential for home repair scams following recent severe weather in his state. “We have seen in the past that fraudsters sometimes roll in with the...
Tornadoes Kill 2 people in Oklahoma, 1 in Colo.
Mar 30 2007 // An early spring storm swept across the central U.S. early on March 29, spinning off tornadoes that killed an Oklahoma couple in a home that was blown to pieces and a Colorado woman whose small town was nearly destroyed. A...
Bristol West Rolls Out Auto Insurance Product in Okla.
Mar 27 2007 // Bristol West Holdings Inc. announced it has begun writing private passenger automobile insurance in Oklahoma. Bristol West said it entered Oklahoma by deploying Select 2.0, its highly segmented insurance product that...
