Latest Oklahoma Headlines
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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...
Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Commission Report Shows a 30% Drop in Premium Costs Since 2013
Sep 4 2017 // Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system seems to have benefited from reforms that were initiated in 2013, at least in terms of premium costs for businesses. By the end of 2016, employers in Oklahoma had seen a...
Oklahoma Agency Wants to Install 72 Seismic Stations
Aug 25 2017 // The Oklahoma Geological Survey has proposed to install more than 70 permanent seismic stations across the state that would allow scientists to better study earthquakes. The $3.5 million proposal would be placed in a grid...
Researchers Using Airplanes to Map Earthquake Faults in Oklahoma
Aug 23 2017 // Researchers are turning to the sky to help stop earthquakes from rumbling deep beneath the Oklahoma soil. The U.S. Geological Survey in coordination with the Oklahoma Geological Survey and other groups last week began...
Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Report Shows Big Drop in Premium Costs Since 2013
Aug 22 2017 // Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system seems to have benefited from reforms that were initiated in 2013, at least in terms of premium costs for businesses. By the end of 2016, employers in Oklahoma had seen a...
Judge Divides $100K Insurance Payout to Victims of 2015 Oklahoma Parade Crash
Aug 21 2017 // A Payne County judge has distributed $100,000 in insurance money to victims of a 2015 homecoming parade crash at Oklahoma State University that killed four people and injured dozens more. Associate District Judge Stephen...
Fraud Following Catastrophes an Unwelcome Trend, Oklahoma’s Doak Says
Aug 21 2017 // In testimony on Capitol Hill in early August, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak told federal lawmakers that fraud across all lines of insurance costs the industry an estimated $80 million to $100 million...
Anti-Price Gouging Act Effective in 4 Oklahoma Counties
Aug 21 2017 // Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter enacted the Emergency Price Stabilization Act in Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa and Wagoner counties after Gov. Mary Fallin declared a state of emergency following a tornado outbreak on the...
Insurance Fraud Following Catastrophes an Unwelcome Trend, Oklahoma’s Doak Tells U.S. Senators
Aug 21 2017 // In testimony on Capitol Hill in early August, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak told federal lawmakers that fraud across all lines of insurance costs the industry an estimated $80 million to $100 million...
Liotta Named Chairman of Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission
Aug 18 2017 // Gov. Mary Fallin has named Mark Liotta as chairman of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission. Liotta, a former state representative from Tulsa, succeeds Robert Gilliland, whose term on the commission expires...
Despite Reduction in Oil, Gas Wastewater Injections, Oklahoma Quakes Continue
Aug 16 2017 // The disposal of wastewater from oil and gas production by injecting it deep into the ground has been linked to a dramatic increase in earthquake activity in Oklahoma since 2009. Injection rates have declined recently...
New Software Monitors Oklahoma Bridges Following Earthquakes
Aug 14 2017 // Oklahoma transportation officials have installed a monitoring service to help prioritize bridge inspections after earthquakes. The ShakeCast software is the final stage in a two-year contract with the private firm...
Emergency Price Stabilization Act in Effect in Four Oklahoma Counties
Aug 10 2017 // An Emergency Price Stabilization Act is in place in Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa and Wagoner counties after a state of emergency was declared following the recent tornado outbreak in those counties, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike...
10 Oklahoma Businesses Condemned Following Tornado Damage
Aug 9 2017 // Ten businesses in a Tulsa shopping district were so badly damaged by a weekend tornado that they have been condemned, including the TGI Fridays and Whataburger restaurants where several people were injured, city officials...
4 Twisters Recorded in Oklahoma, Including EF2 That Caused Heavy Damage
Aug 8 2017 // The National Weather Service confirmed that four tornadoes struck northeast Oklahoma, including an EF2 twister that caused heavy damage and injured at least 30 people near midtown Tulsa. On Monday, meteorologist Bart Haake...
Verisk: Texas 2nd, Oklahoma 7th in Number of Households at Risk for Wildfire
Aug 7 2017 // The 2017 Verisk Wildfire Risk Analysis shows that Texas ranks second behind California for the number of households at high or extreme risk from wildfire. Using information from the 2010 U.S. Census, the study determined...
