Latest Oklahoma Headlines
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Federal Grand Jury in Miss. Seeks State Farm Transcript
Oct 1 2006 // A federal grand jury in Jackson, Miss., has ordered a transcript from an Oklahoma case in which State Farm Insurance Co. was hit with a $13 million judgment involving a lawsuit by policyholders from a 1999 tornado. Records...
Most Okla. Births Paid for by Medicaid
Sep 28 2006 // A tax-supported health insurance program for low-income Oklahomans paid for more than half the births in the state in 2004, according to the head of the state’s Department of Human Services. DHS Director Howard...
Okla. Man Sentenced in Comp Case
Sep 19 2006 // An Elk City, Okla. man was ordered to pay more than $20,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud in Oklahoma County District Court, the state attorney...
Gov. Henry Removes Northwestern Okla., Metro Areas From Burn Ban
Sep 14 2006 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has lifted a month-old statewide burn ban for about half the state, saying rainfall in recent weeks had helped relieve wildfire dangers. Henry’s order lifted burn prohibitions in much of...
Chicago Fort Dearborn Life Announces Plan to Merge with Member Service Life
Sep 7 2006 // Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), a Mutual Legal Reserve Company, recently announced its intent to merge with Oklahoma-based Member Service Life Insurance...
Subsidiary of Health Care Service to Merge with Okla. Member Service Life
Sep 7 2006 // Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), a Mutual Legal Reserve Company, today announced its intent to merge with Oklahoma-based Member Service Life Insurance Company,...
Okla. Insurance Commissioner Candidates Draw Out-of-State Funds
Sep 5 2006 // The two candidates for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner drew at least one-quarter of their campaign contributions since January 2005 from out-of-state donors, campaign data shows. The Oklahoman’s analysis of campaign...
Transportation activities accounted for most on-job fatalities in 2005
Sep 4 2006 // Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma all experienced higher rates of workplace fatalities in 2005, as compared to 2004. However, the total number of workplace deaths dropped by 15 in Louisiana last year. Transportation-related...
Willis Joins Marsh in Getting OK for Contingency Pay for MGA Services
Sep 1 2006 // Global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings has signed an agreement with the New York Attorney General and the Insurance Department of New York amending the previous agreement banning receipt of all contingent...
Marsh Given OK to Accept Contingent Pay When Serving as MGA
Aug 25 2006 // In a departure from their $850 million agreement prohibiting all contingent payments, New York officials have agreed to let Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. (MMC) accept contingent commissions from an insurer for which...
AJS Will Pay Fine, Comply with Okla. Telephone Laws
Aug 24 2006 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson announced that his office has completed its investigation into political telephone calls that targeted a Republican congressional race on the eve of July’s primary...
Okla. Agents Denounce Contingent Fee Settlement Agreements
Aug 23 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma (IIAO), the state’s largest insurance and property casualty agents association, has joined other agent groups in denouncing recent assaults on compensation agreements...
Oklahoma, Texas have most uninsured children
Aug 21 2006 // Arkansas led the nation in the reducing the number of uninsured children in that state between 1997 and 2004, but Texas and Oklahoma lagged behind the rest — ranking last and next to last, respectively, in the...
More drought relief needed in Oklahoma
Aug 21 2006 // Oklahoma State Sen. Jeff Rabon recently asked the U.S. Congress to make available additional funding for emergency drought relief needed by Oklahoma farmers and ranchers after Gov. Brad Henry’s request for disaster...
New State-Run Commercial Insurance Unit OK’d by Fla. Governor, Cabinet
Aug 18 2006 // Following a presentation by Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty, Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Cabinet approved an emergency rule establishing a property and casualty joint underwriting association to make...
Number of Teen Smokers in Oklahoma Falls
Aug 16 2006 // Nearly one-third fewer Oklahoma teenagers smoked cigarettes last year compared to 1999, according to a state Health Department survey. The random survey of 4,000 high school and middle school students estimated there were...
Okla. Private Sector Job Deaths Decline During 2005
Aug 11 2006 // The Oklahoma Department of Labor reported that fatalities in private sector workplaces fell slightly in 2005. According to a report released by the DOL, Overall, 84 private sector job deaths were recorded in 2005, down two...
Okla. Lags in Children With Health Coverage
Aug 11 2006 // A new study shows Oklahoma lags behind other states in the number of children covered by health insurance, with about 17.5 percent of those up to age 17 lacking coverage. The number of uninsured children in the state has...
Get your motor runnin’ — not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // Most motorcycles taken in California, Ohio comes in fifth, Indiana in top 10 at number nine California was tops in the nation for motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but Ohio had...
Former claims director indicted in Oklahoma
Aug 7 2006 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson reported that the former claims director for CompSource Oklahoma is accused of one count of workers’ compensation fraud in a Multicounty Grand Jury indictment unsealed in July...
