Latest Oklahoma Headlines
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Oklahoma Residents Sue 12 Energy Companies Following Earthquakes
Jan 14 2016 // A group of Edmond residents has filed a lawsuit against 12 energy companies, claiming that their saltwater disposal wells were partly to blame for earthquakes in central Oklahoma in recent weeks. The lawsuit seeks a...
Oklahoma Licensed 26 Captive Insurers Last Year
Jan 13 2016 // Oklahoma’s captive insurance industry grew in 2015 with the licensing of 26 captive insurers, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced. With the addition of the 26 new captives, Oklahoma currently regulates 73...
Blue Bell: Ice Cream Safe Despite Potential Concern
Jan 13 2016 // Blue Bell Creameries is seeking to reassure customers that its ice cream in safe, even as the Texas company tries to determine whether listeria has again been found at one of its plants. Blue Bell is in in the midst of...
Refiled Suits in Oklahoma Allege Excessive Force by Ex-Reserve Deputy
Jan 11 2016 // Lawsuits have been refiled that allege a former Tulsa County volunteer sheriff’s deputy used excessive force when he fatally shot one man and used a stun gun on another. The lawsuits were refiled against Robert...
2015 Was Oklahoma’s Wettest Year Ever
Jan 11 2016 // Bouncing from drought to flooding, back to drought and then to flooding again, 2015 finished as the wettest year on record in Oklahoma. State Climatologist Gary McManus said that 2015 ended with a statewide average of...
Robert Zeman
Jan 11 2016 // Allstate Regional Counsel Robert Zeman has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of directors of the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT). His term began Jan. 1. Zeman has served on the ICT board of directors since...
Northwest Oklahoma Hit with 3 Quakes of Magnitude 4.0 or More
Jan 8 2016 // Three earthquakes capable of causing moderate damage have been recorded in northwestern Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey reports a magnitude 4.7 quake hit just before 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 6 about 20 miles northwest of...
Oklahoma Orders Reduction in Wastewater Disposal after Quakes
Jan 6 2016 // The state commission that regulates Oklahoma’s oil and natural gas industry on Jan. 4 ordered some injection well operators to reduce wastewater disposal volumes after at least a dozen earthquakes hit an area north...
Oklahoma Medical Examiner Links 5 Deaths to Weekend Storm
Dec 31 2015 // The Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office says the deaths of five people in recent days are likely linked to a powerful weekend winter storm. Spokesman Eddie Johnson said that the dead include two women found outdoors...
4.3 Magnitude Quake Knocks Out Power in Central Oklahoma
Dec 31 2015 // A strong, 4.3-magnitude earthquake woke many people in the Oklahoma City area early on Dec. 29 and knocked out power to thousands of homes, the latest in a series of temblors that’s prompted state regulators to call...
‘Couldn’t Stand the Weather’ Sums Up South Central News in 2015
Dec 30 2015 // If you scan the song/album list of the late, great Texas blues guitar powerhouse, Stevie Ray Vaughan, you’ll get an inkling of what the major stories from Insurance Journal’s South Central region in 2015 were...
State of Emergency Extended in Oklahoma
Dec 30 2015 // Gov. Mary Fallin is extending a state of emergency to all 77 Oklahoma counties after another winter storm brought ice to western and central parts of the state and heavy flooding in the east and northeast. Fallin issued an...
Oklahoma Restaurant Faces Suit over Wage, Child Labor Violations
Dec 29 2015 // The U.S. Labor Department has accused a Wichita Mountains roadside restaurant of violating wage and child labor laws. A U.S. District Court complaint filed in Oklahoma City says Meers Store & Restaurant owes more than...
Pair of Quakes Rattle Central Portions of Oklahoma
Dec 28 2015 // Two earthquakes have rattled portions of Oklahoma that are becoming accustomed to experiencing many of the temblors. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a 3.4 magnitude quake near Medford Sunday. Shortly before that, the...
Oklahoma Judge Won’t Toss Suit over Earthquake Damage
Dec 22 2015 // An Oklahoma judge has rejected a request from two energy companies to throw out a lawsuit by a woman who claims she was injured in an earthquake caused by the injection of wastewater. Lincoln County District Judge Cynthia...
Obama Administration Urges Supreme Court to Reject Marijuana Lawsuit
Dec 21 2015 // Despite its opposition to making marijuana use legal, the Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit from Nebraska and Oklahoma that seeks to declare Colorado’s pot legalization...
Oklahoma Governor Requests Disaster Declaration for November Storm
Dec 21 2015 // Gov. Mary Fallin has requested a major disaster declaration from the federal government for 18 Oklahoma counties affected by a winter storm last month. Fallin’s office announced the request on Dec. 17. If approved,...
Official: 2015 Is Oklahoma’s Wettest Year
Dec 16 2015 // An Oklahoma official says 2015 is the state’s wettest year on record, beating a rainfall record set in 1957. The Oklahoman reports that the state has seen an average of 48 inches of rain this year, topping the...
Company’s Wastewater Kills Over 30,000 Fish in Oklahoma
Dec 14 2015 // Oklahoma wildlife officials say a discharge of partially treated wastewater from an Arkansas wastewater plant killed over 30,000 fish along a Siloam Springs tributary. The fish kill happened in September when the apparent...
Pippin Reappointed to Oklahoma Self-Insurance Guaranty Fund Board
Dec 11 2015 // Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission Chairman Robert Gilliland has reappointed Louis Pippin to the commission’s Self-Insurance Guaranty Fund (SIGF) board. Pippin, of Oklahoma City, fulfilled the remainder...
