Latest Oklahoma Headlines
All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Darwin Makes Available Hospital Professional Liability Insurance for Oklahoma
May 21 2004 // Darwin Professional Underwriters Inc. (Darwin) announced approval by the Oklahoma Department of Insurance of Platte River Insurance Company to write hospital professional liability coverage on an admitted basis in...
Okla. Tort Reform Committee Adopts ‘I’m Sorry’ Provision
May 21 2004 // The Oklahoma Senate reported that a special joint House-Senate Committee on Tort Reform has already adopted a provision lauded by medical professionals in a front page story in a Wall Street Journal as the most effective...
Oklahoma Governor Calls Special Session for Fisher Impeachment Investigation
May 19 2004 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry announced that the state Legislature would meet in a special session so that the committee looking into alleged infractions by Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher can complete its investigation....
PLICO Plans to Raise Rates in Oklahoma
May 18 2004 // Physicians Liability Insurance Corporation (PLICO), a nonprofit insurance company that provides coverage to more than 70 percent of Oklahoma doctors plans to increase its rates this summer, but promised not to raise its...
Oklahoma Governor Assembles Work Comp Group
May 11 2004 // The Oklahoma House of Representatives Media Division reported that Governor Brad Henry has established a work group to examine pending workers’ compensation legislation in an effort to reach consensus on a reform...
Oklahoma Restaurant Assoc. Endorses Great Central
May 10 2004 // Great Central Insurance Company, a member of San Antonio-based Argonaut Group Inc.‘s Specialty Commercial segment, announced it was named the endorsed insurance company for the Oklahoma Restaurant Association (ORA)...
Okla. Firefighter Named in Second Indictment
May 5 2004 // A Multicounty Grand Jury indictment naming a former Tulsa, Oklahoma firefighter was unsealed recently in Rogers County District Court, Attorney General Drew Edmondson said. William Bradford Adams, 49, was indicted April 14...
UNDER SUPERVISION IN OKLAHOMA:
May 3 2004 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher announced that medical malpractice insurers, Physicians Liability Insurance Co. (PLICO) and Hospital Casualty Co., have been placed under formal supervision by the Oklahoma...
Oklahoma Hailstorms Rack Up $75 Million in Damages
Apr 29 2004 // Hailstorms that hit central Oklahoma a week ago caused more than $75 million in damage, according to preliminary estimates released by the Oklahoma Insurance Department. The Associated Press reported that an estimate of...
California Commissioner Launches Team to Investigate Wildfire Insurance
Apr 28 2004 // A team of attorneys and consumer advocates will be in place by week’s end to investigate complaints by hundreds of victims of last fall’s Southern California wildfires that their insurance companies...
Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Proposals Revived
Apr 27 2004 // Several workers’ compensation reforms proposed in a pair of Oklahoma House of Represenatives bills that died in the Senate had new life breathed into them by amendments the House attached to Senate Bill...
PLICO, Hospital Casualty Under Supervision in Okla.
Apr 23 2004 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher announced that officials with Physicians Liability Insurance Co. (PLICO) and Hospital Casualty Co. have signed agreements placing the two companies under formal supervision by...
Fisher Approves Rate Hike for Med-Mal Insurer
Apr 22 2004 // Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher recently announced that a request for a rate hike by Oklahoma’s third largest writer of medical malpractice insurance has been approved. The Oklahoma Insurance Department...
OKLA. COMP BILL SHELVED:
Apr 19 2004 // Oklahoma State Senate President Pro Tempore Cal Hobson announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will not hear House Bill 2619, which addresses the state’s workers’ compensation system. Hobson said the bill...
Oklahoma Senate Passes Tort Reform Measure
Apr 15 2004 // The Oklahoma State Senate approved House Bill 2661 and sent the measure to a House-Senate Conference Committee. According to the Senate Communications Divisions, 23 members of a special House-Senate committee on tort...
Manulife-John Hancock Merger Wins Mass. OK
Apr 14 2004 // Manulife Financial Corporation has received approval from the Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) for its proposed merger with John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. The DOI is the principal U.S. regulator for John...
Okla. Repairmen Hammered with Five Counts of Fraud
Apr 14 2004 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said charges his office filed against a home repairman should serve as a warning to consumers to be on the lookout for home repair scams that often go along with Oklahoma’s...
Oklahoma Clarifies Record Retention Rules
Apr 12 2004 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department issued a bulletin clarifying a previous communication on agent records that said hard copies must be maintained. In the new bulletin, the Department noted that “hard copies”...
Plan for Oklahoma Tort Reform Hearings Presented
Apr 9 2004 // Oklahoma state Senator Mike Morgan, D-Stillwater, and state Representative Jari Askins, D-Duncan, announced a schedule for four issue-oriented hearings on tort reform. Morgan and Askins co-chair a special 23-member joint...
Okla. Legislature to Hold Joint Hearings on Lawsuit Reform Beginning April 15
Apr 6 2004 // Oklahoma’s Speaker of the House, Larry Adair, and Senate President Pro Tempore Cal Hobson announced the formation of a 23-member bipartisan joint committee on lawsuit reform. The committee, which will be led by...
