Latest Oklahoma Headlines
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Record Western Wildfires a Contrast in Otherwise Quiet Year for U.S. Natural Disasters
Jan 28 2016 // It was a relatively quiet year for natural disasters – except for those living in the Western U.S. Property data provider CoreLogic today released its annual Natural Hazard Risk Summary and Analysis. The report shows...
Oklahoma to Host 5th Annual Tornado Summit
Jan 25 2016 // The 2016 National Tornado Summit, the 5th annual event, will be held Feb. 29-March 2 in Oklahoma City, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced. The National Tornado Summit is an educational forum that provides...
Earthquakes and Resulting Lawsuits Persist in Oklahoma
Jan 25 2016 // A group of Edmond residents filed a lawsuit on Jan. 11 against 12 energy companies, claiming that their saltwater disposal wells were partly to blame for earthquakes in central Oklahoma. The lawsuit seeks a permanent...
Oklahoma City Man Charged with Insurance Fraud
Jan 22 2016 // Insurance fraud charges have been filed against an Oklahoma City man, the state attorney general’s office announced. Adam Lee McHolland is accused of filing a false insurance claim stating his motorcycle had been...
Sandridge Energy Agrees to Reduce Wastewater Volume in Oklahoma Wells
Jan 21 2016 // Sandridge Energy has agreed to a plan from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s Oil and Gas Conservation Division (OGCD) that will both reduce the volume of wastewater being injected in the Medford and...
Oklahoma Officials Avoid Tough Measures Despite More, Stronger Quakes
Jan 20 2016 // In Oklahoma, now the country’s earthquake capital, people are talking nervously about the big one as man-made quakes get stronger, more frequent and closer to major population centers. Next door in Kansas,...
First GM Ignition Switch Trial Sidetracked by Check Fraud Allegation
Jan 20 2016 // An Oklahoma family’s eviction from their “dream house” following allegations of check fraud is threatening to derail the first trial over General Motors Co.’s deadly ignition-switch flaw. Robert...
N.Y. Aims to Improve Storm Forecasts With Automated Weather Stations
Jan 19 2016 // Counting every raindrop or measuring every gust of wind is impossible, but New York is getting closer with a uniquely extensive statewide system of automated weather stations that should paint a dramatically clearer...
Hundreds of Oklahomans Turn Out for Earthquake Hearing
Jan 19 2016 // Oklahoma residents concerned with a dramatic increase in the number of earthquakes called for more regulations on the oil and gas industry on Jan. 15 and urged state leaders to take action to stop the quakes. About 200...
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...
