Latest Oklahoma Headlines
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Oklahoma, U.S. Differ in Earthquake Calculations
Mar 9 2015 // The Oklahoma Geological Survey reported fewer than half the number of 4.0 magnitude and higher earthquakes in Oklahoma last year as the U.S. Geological Survey, according to agency records. While OGS reported six...
Tennessee Lawmakers Introduce Work Comp ‘Option’ Legislation
Mar 6 2015 // Tennessee may soon have its own answer to an alternative workers’ compensation insurance option through new legislation by Republican lawmakers known as the Tennessee Employee Injury Benefit Alternative. Tennessee...
Oklahoma Commissioner Warns Insurers on Denial of Earthquake Claims
Mar 4 2015 // With the dramatic increase in the number of earthquakes in Oklahoma — which some say are at least partly attributed to waste water injection wells related to the practice of hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas drilling...
Oklahoma, U.S. Differ in Earthquake Calculations
Mar 2 2015 // The Oklahoma Geological Survey reported fewer than half the number of 4.0 magnitude and higher earthquakes in Oklahoma last year as the U.S. Geological Survey, according to agency records. While OGS reported six...
Bill Banning Texting and Driving Passes Oklahoma House
Feb 25 2015 // The Oklahoma House has overwhelmingly approved restrictions on texting while driving, despite concerns among the measure’s strongest supporters that they don’t go far enough. House members voted 96-2 for the...
More than $1M Awarded in Oklahoma Nursing Home Lawsuit
Feb 24 2015 // The former owner of an Oklahoma City nursing home must pay a woman’s family more than $1 million in damages after staff were caught abusing the woman on camera. A jury recently awarded the three daughters of...
More than 2.5K Oklahoma Agents Take Earthquake Coverage Class
Feb 23 2015 // Oklahoma insurance agents are receiving training about earthquake insurance as a swarm of temblors continues to shake the state. More than 2,500 Oklahoma insurance professionals have completed a one-hour continuing...
Wastewater Injection Shaking Oklahoma; Tracking, Management Needed
Feb 23 2015 // Not so many years ago, earthquake science was no more relevant to Oklahoma than marine biology. But these days the state is shaking way more often than California, and giving many people there an unwanted crash course in...
Oklahoma Energy Companies Sued Over Earthquake Damage
Feb 23 2015 // An Oklahoma resident has sued two energy companies seeking class-action status for people in nine counties who were affected by recent earthquakes. Jennifer Lin Cooper of Prague filed the suit against Tulsa-based New...
Ex-Oppenheimer Exec Admits to Role in Sinking Oklahoma Insurer
Feb 22 2015 // A former Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. executive pleaded guilty to participating in a fraud that the U.S. says led to the collapse of an Oklahoma insurance company. Allen Reichman, 55, told a Manhattan judge that he and...
Injured Workers File Legal Challenge over Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Law
Feb 16 2015 // Two workers who were injured on the job have filed a legal challenge over changes to Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation laws that were approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature in 2013. The constitutional...
Lyft Joins Uber in Getting Final OK for Pennsylvania Service
Feb 13 2015 // Pennsylvania’s regulators say they’re satisfied with the plan by the ridesharing service Lyft to comply with conditions for a two-year license for experimental service to operate everywhere in the state except...
Texting-While-Driving Bill Moves Forward in Oklahoma
Feb 13 2015 // A measure aimed at curbing the dangerous trend of texting while driving easily passed out of an Oklahoma House committee, the bill’s author reports. House Bill 1965, by state Rep. Terry O’Donnell, strengthens...
Energy Companies Sued in Oklahoma over Earthquake Damage
Feb 12 2015 // A Prague, Okla., resident has filed a lawsuit against two energy companies seeking class-action status for people in nine counties who were affected by recent earthquakes. Jennifer Lin Cooper filed the suit against...
A.M. Best: Outlook Stable for Oklahoma Farm Bureau Mutual
Feb 11 2015 // A.M. Best has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the financial strength rating of B- (Fair) and the issuer credit ratings of “bb-” of the members of Oklahoma Farm Bureau Group: Oklahoma...
Former Arrow Trucking CEO Pleads Guilty in Oklahoma to Fraud Charges
Feb 9 2015 // The former CEO of a now-defunct trucking company that left its employees stranded all over the country when it suddenly shut down in December 2009 has pleaded guilty in federal court in Oklahoma to charges of tax evasion...
Insurer: Oklahoma Jazz Museum’s Workers’ Comp Debt Is Paid
Feb 9 2015 // A major insurer who had the financially shaky Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame on the hook for around $11,200 a couple weeks ago after the museum failed to pay its workers’ compensation premium on time now says the...
Oklahoma Senate Proposal Tackles Uninsured Drivers with DUIs
Feb 9 2015 // Oklahoma Sen. Ron Sharp, R-Shawnee, filed legislation to address the state’s high number of uninsured motorists, especially those with DUI convictions. Senate Bill 260 would require an individual convicted of driving...
Geologists Look for Earthquake, Fracking Connection in Kansas
Feb 6 2015 // For at the last 15 months, Kansas geologist Rex Buchanan estimates, he’s spent 90 percent of his time studying something once relatively rare in the state — earthquakes. He has learned a lot, said the director of...
Minor Damage to Courthouse after Northern Oklahoma Earthquake Swarm
Feb 6 2015 // A swarm of earthquakes has shaken parts of Alfalfa County in northern Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey says four earthquakes have been recorded around Cherokee and Helena since late on Feb. 4, including a magnitude 4.3...
