Latest Oklahoma Headlines
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Oklahoma’s Tornado King Ordered to Return More than $100K in Embezzlement Scheme
Oct 24 2017 // Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter says William Stephens, the owner of Tornado King, a storm shelter manufacturing and installation company, pleaded no contest to six counts of embezzlement and one count of a pattern of...
Alliant Employee Benefits Adds Williams as VP in Oklahoma City
Oct 24 2017 // Alliant Employee Benefits, a division of Alliant Insurance Services, has hired 30-year industry veteran Brad Williams as a vice president in Oklahoma City. Williams will work with medium-to-large-size organizations,...
Oklahoma Energy Companies Settle Suit over Earthquake Damage
Oct 24 2017 // A settlement has been reached between two Oklahoma oil and natural gas companies and a woman injured in a 2011 earthquake. Prague resident Sandra Ladra filed the lawsuit in 2014 against New Dominion LLC, Spess Oil Co. and...
Governor Evacuated from Beach Boys Concert as Oklahoma Hit with Severe Storms
Oct 23 2017 // Emergency managers and the National Weather Service are surveying damage from storms that spawned as many as four tornadoes in southwest Oklahoma. Meteorologist John Pike says officials were in Tillman, Comanche, McClain...
Ex-Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma: Insurer’s $4M Payout for Lost Ring not Enough
Oct 18 2017 // The former mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is suing an insurance company and broker because she says the $4 million she received for a lost blue diamond ring isn’t enough. The Tulsa World reports that Kathy Taylor’s...
Safety a Priority for Oklahoma Wind Turbine Maintenance Workers
Oct 16 2017 // For Kalon Moore and Jackson Rollins, it’s a sight they never tire of. Just about every day on the job, the two look out at the Oklahoma landscape in every direction for miles, several hundred feet atop a wind...
Natural Gas Well Leak Forced Evacuations in Oklahoma
Oct 16 2017 // Some residents of Velma have returned to their homes after a leak in a natural gas well forced them to evacuate. Velma Fire Chief Jay Dumas said Saturday that a buildup of pressure caused the Stephens County well head to...
Oklahoma’s High Court Strikes Down Another Provision of the State’s Workers’ Comp Law
Oct 16 2017 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court, by a vote of 5 to 3, with one recusal, has overturned another part of Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation law. The Court on Oct. 3 ruled in Brandon Gibby v. Hobby Lobby, filed by Hobby...
Oklahoma Recovery Program Participants Sue Over Alleged Forced Labor
Oct 12 2017 // Participants in an Oklahoma-based substance recovery program allege they were required to work at a poultry processing plant without compensation under the threat of incarceration. Three participants filed a federal...
Oklahoma County’s Insurer to Pay $750K in Inmate Death Settlement
Oct 11 2017 // A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit over the 2013 death of a diabetic man who was denied medical treatment at a county jail in Oklahoma, according to court records. McClain County commissioners will pay...
Oklahoma Mulls Rule Change for Ex-State Employees, Officials Turned Lobbyists
Oct 9 2017 // The Oklahoma Ethics Commission is considering a rule change that would ban all state employees and officials from lobbying for two years after their tenure ends. The proposed rule change would create what Oklahoma...
Part of Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Law Overturned by State’s High Court
Oct 5 2017 // A divided Oklahoma Supreme Court has overturned part of Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation law concerning how workers are compensated for their on-the-job injuries. The court handed down the 5-3 decision with one...
Indiana’s American Inter-Fidelity Exchange OK’d to Sell Insurance in Arkansas
Oct 4 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to an Indiana-based company to begin selling insurance products in Arkansas. Kerr has approved American Inter-Fidelity Exchange of...
Oklahoma Emergency Care Provider Will Take Insurer to Court over Legal Fees
Oct 3 2017 // An emergency medical care provider in Oklahoma has authorized its attorneys to take a liability insurance company to court if needed to force the business to pay a claim aimed at covering legal costs. Emergency Medical...
A.M. Best Assigns A- Rating to Oklahoma’s Trisura Specialty Insurance
Sep 29 2017 // A.M. Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” to Trisura Specialty Insurance Co. (Trisura Specialty), based in Oklahoma City. The ratings...
Despite Low Unemployment Rates, Many Oklahoma Residents Without a Job
Sep 26 2017 // Many Oklahoma residents are out of the workforce despite the state’s low unemployment rates. The Tulsa World reports that about 25 percent of state residents between ages 25 and 54 don’t have a job. Shelley...
How Home Values Track with High, Low Risk of Natural Hazards: ATTOM Data
Sep 22 2017 // Americans are still buying homes in areas with high risk of natural hazards and the homes in those cities continue to appreciate in value far faster than homes in low natural hazard locales. However, the effect on home...
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Sep 18 2017 // Dallas-based insurance and risk management firm Dexter & Company has added Jeff Twitty to its team as senior vice president and promoted Stephen Bivins to vice president. A seasoned insurance professional with more...
Workers’ Comp Loss Costs to Fall 16.3% in Oklahoma Next Year
Sep 15 2017 // Workers’ compensation loss costs for 2018 will decrease by 16.3 percent in Oklahoma according to a filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission...
Ex-Oklahoma Insurance Agent Told to Stop Conducting Insurance Business
Sep 5 2017 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak has issued a cease and desist order to a former insurance agent in Cushing. The Oklahoma Insurance Department reported that investigators discovered Mark Lauderdale, whose...
