Latest Oklahoma Headlines
All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
American Physicians Service Group Expanding into Okla.
Aug 22 2007 // Austin, Texas-based American Physicians Service Group Inc. (APS) announced that its American Physicians Insurance Company (API) subsidiary has received a Certificate of Authority from the Oklahoma Insurance Department to...
Erin Brings Flooding to Okla. as Flood Control Funds Dry Up
Aug 20 2007 // Heavy rain and high winds from the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin moved through Oklahoma early on Aug. 19 , flooding homes and roads and leading to power outages. More than five inches of rain fell in some areas of...
Okla. Lawmaker Proposes Ban on Cell Phone Use by School Bus Drivers
Aug 16 2007 // Legislation proposed by an Oklahoma state representative would prohibit school bus drivers from talking on their cell phone while driving the bus. The measure by Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, R-Moore, would also forbid teenagers...
Okla. AG: 1,000-plus Defective Tires May Have Been Sold in State
Aug 8 2007 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson recently issued a warning to consumers about potentially hazardous tires that are likely on thousands of consumer-driven trucks, sport utility vehicles and vans. More than 1,000 of...
Illegal immigrants an unknown factor in Okla. insurance verification program
Aug 6 2007 // An auto insurance verification program being developed in Oklahoma does not address a growing number of uninsured drivers — illegal immigrants. The new real-time system will allow law enforcement officers to...
Okla. Leads Nation in Disaster Declarations
Jul 30 2007 // A combination of ice storms, flooding rains and tornadoes have left Oklahoma atop a dubious list. So far this year, the state has most federal disaster declarations in the country. Oklahoma has received two declarations...
Okla. Regulator’s Concerns Impacts Federal Medicare Legislation
Jul 30 2007 // Two months ago, Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland was in Washington expressing dismay to a Senate panel that government policies prevented her from protecting elderly Oklahoma consumers from unscrupulous Medicare...
Okla. Employment Service Owners Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 25 2007 // A federal jury in Oklahoma convicted the owners of a Norman employment service of defrauding businesses by billing them for workers’ compensation insurance coverage that didn’t exist. The panel found Justin...
New Okla. Insurance Verification Program Has a Sizable Hole
Jul 24 2007 // An auto insurance-verification program set to take effect in Oklahoma next summer does not address a growing number of uninsured drivers – those who are illegal immigrants. The new real-time system will allow law...
News Currents
Jul 23 2007 // Okla. court says law can’t bar evidence in workers’ comp case State senator vows effort to address issue The Oklahoma Supreme Court invalidated a portion of a state law that prohibits medical evidence to be...
Fraud Roundup
Jul 23 2007 // Cattle claims result in fraud allegations Oklahoma Insurance Department anti-fraud investigators allege that Holly Timmons Campbell committed insurance fraud by filing fraudulent cattle loss claims in Pontotoc County,...
Okla. Woman Accused of Committing Fraud with Cattle Loss Claims
Jul 16 2007 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland recently announced that department anti-fraud investigators presented an Affidavit of Probable Cause in Pontotoc County alleging Holly Timmons Campbell committed insurance fraud...
Okla. Court Says Law Can’t Bar Evidence in Workers’ Comp Case
Jul 16 2007 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has invalidated a portion of a state law that prohibits medical evidence to be presented in a workers’ compensation case from a doctor hired by an injured worker. The court said it is...
FEMA Officials Plan to Survey Flood Damage in Okla.
Jul 12 2007 // Federal officials plan to survey damage and talk to residents this week in flood-ravaged neighborhoods in Bartlesville and Dewey, Okla., where more than 3,000 people were displaced when the Caney River flooded its banks...
Preliminary Damage Assessments Continue After Oklahoma Floods
Jul 10 2007 // As river levels continued to drop and dry weather prevailed in most parts of Oklahoma on July 8, preliminary damage assessments from recent flooding began coming in. In Miami, one of the hardest-hit areas, City Manager...
Judge sides with Okla. AG on challenges to suit
Jul 2 2007 // A federal judge in mid-June sided with the state of Okla-homa on several legal challenges brought by the poultry industry in an attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. After two days...
Okla. Commissioner Testifies before Congressional Panel on Medicare
Jun 28 2007 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland told members of a Congressional panel on Tuesday, June 26th that insurance companies are preying on elderly Oklahomans by selling unnecessary Medicare plans. Holland traveled to...
Central Oklahoma CPCU Chapter Elects New Leaders
Jun 19 2007 // The Central Oklahoma Chapter of CPCU announced the election of new officers for the 2007 – 2008 Chapter year. Leading the group will be: President Denise Engle, claim analyst, Midlands Management; Vice President...
Judge Sides with Okla. AG on Legal Challenges to Poultry Suit
Jun 19 2007 // A federal judge has sided with the state of Oklahoma on several legal challenges brought by the poultry industry in an attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. After two days of...
Truck Mechanical Problems Decline in Mo. Roadside Inspection Report
Jun 19 2007 // Roadside inspections found slightly fewer mechanical problems with tractor-trailers in Missouri last year, but the state still logs a higher percentage of flaws than Kansas or Oklahoma. Federal statistics show that just...
