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May 7 2018 // Kristi Koncaba, president and chief operating officer at Texan Bank, has been appointed to the board of directors for workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co. Koncaba has 15 years of experience in...
Oklahoma Has New Vendor for Insurance Licensing Exams
May 7 2018 // Oklahoma has a new vendor for licensing exams for insurance professionals and bail bondsman. The Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) reported that Prometric will develop and deliver exam content for all of OID’s...
Ancient Artifacts Seized From Hobby Lobby Returned to Iraq
May 4 2018 // Thousands of ancient clay tablets, seals and other Iraqi archaeological objects that were smuggled into the U.S. and shipped to the head of the Oklahoma-based arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby were returned to the Iraqi...
8 Fatalities Caused by 7 Oklahoma Highway Patrol Car Chases
May 4 2018 // The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has led seven vehicle chases over the last year resulting in eight deaths. Two who died were uninvolved motorists, and the latest to die was one of the agency’s lieutenants, the Tulsa...
Oklahoma Has New Vendor for Insurance Licensing Exams
May 2 2018 // Oklahoma has a new vendor for licensing exams for insurance professionals and bail bondsman. The Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) reported that Prometric will develop and deliver exam content for all of OID’s...
Insurers Offering Discounts on Tornado-Resilient Homes in Oklahoma
May 2 2018 // Dozens of insurance companies are now offering discounts to Oklahomans who have built or retrofitted their homes to certain tornado-resilient standards, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced. A new law went into...
Swiss Re Receives OK for Expanded South Africa License
May 2 2018 // Swiss Re’s reinsurance business unit has a newly-approved license for property/casualty business in South Africa. The move completes Swiss Re’s pan to re-domicile its Southern African P/C business onto the...
No Tornadoes in Oklahoma in 2018 – Yet
May 1 2018 // This year’s weather on the Southern Plains has an odd twist: Oklahoma has yet to record its first tornado, the deepest into the year it’s gone without one since 1962. Although a drought has dried up moisture...
Tulsa County Democratic Party Chair to Run for Insurance Commissioner
Apr 24 2018 // The chair of the Tulsa County Democratic Party has entered the race to become Oklahoma’s next insurance commissioner. Kimberly Fobbs currently is the only Democrat who has filed to run for the insurance...
Sheriff: Arson a Possibility in Deadly Oklahoma Wildfire
Apr 23 2018 // Authorities are investigating the possibility of arson in connection with one of two large wildfires burning in Oklahoma, a blaze that’s resulted in the death of one person. Dewey County Sheriff Clay Sander said that...
Sompo International Receives Luxembourg OK for Post-Brexit P/C Subsidiary
Apr 23 2018 // Bermuda-based property/casualty insurer and reinsurer Sompo International Holdings Ltd. said it has received the regulatory approvals from the Ministry of Finance of Luxembourg to establish a new subsidiary, SI Insurance...
Firefighters Hope Better Weather Will Aid Oklahoma Wildfire Fight
Apr 20 2018 // Firefighters are hoping higher humidity and milder winds will help them fight wildfires in Oklahoma, though conditions are critical in Arizona and New Mexico. U.S. Forest Service spokesman Todd Schroeder said on April 19...
2 Killed in Oklahoma Wildfires, Threat Continues
Apr 17 2018 // Wildfires have killed two people and burned more than 400,000 acres in western Oklahoma, and dry, windy weather already hindering firefighting efforts there will only get worse as the week progresses, fire and forestry...
Dozens of Wildfires Burn Hundreds of Square Miles in Oklahoma, Texas
Apr 16 2018 // Strong winds are fueling more than two dozen wildfires burning across Oklahoma and Texas. Authorities say one blaze in western Oklahoma is estimated to be nearly 40 miles across at its widest point. Oklahoma Forestry...
Oklahoma Orders More Cuts in Water Injection Amounts After Earthquakes
Apr 12 2018 // The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has directed a wastewater disposal well to reduce its volume of injection after more than a dozen earthquakes rattled part of northwest Oklahoma since Friday. The U.S. Geological Survey...
Smith Named Executive Director of Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Commission
Apr 11 2018 // Hopper Smith has been hired as executive director of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC). Smith, a retired Brigadier General, will begin serving in the post on May 1. Smith succeeds interim Executive...
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas Facing Dual Threats: Tornadoes, Wildfires
Apr 9 2018 // Emergency officials in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas are bracing for two types of disasters as spring gets into full swing: The start of what’s historically the most active time of year for tornadoes plus wildfire...
Seeman Holtz P&C Acquires Federal Employee Insurance Business in Oklahoma
Apr 6 2018 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has acquired the federal employee insurance business of Federal Employee Services LLC in Edmond, Oklahoma. Federal Employee Services provides coverages to both civil service and...
Antifraud Group Adds Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner to Executive Committee
Apr 5 2018 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak has been named to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud‘s executive committee. He was elected unanimously by the Coalition’s executive committee. Doak, who is...
3 Month-Old Oklahoma ‘Left Lane’ Law Results in Dozens of Citations
Mar 28 2018 // An Oklahoma law forbidding motorists on four-lane highways to impede traffic by traveling in the left lane has resulted in dozens of citations since going into effect last year. Records obtained by The Oklahoman show that...
