Latest Oklahoma Headlines
All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas, Louisiana surplus lines premium decreases in 2005
Mar 20 2006 // Insurance Journal South Central–Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas–vary widely in the amount of premium written in any given year. Texas has the biggest surplus lines market, followed by Louisiana,...
Mostly A-OK with IIAOK
Mar 20 2006 // Surplus lines laws, uninsured drivers and the broadening of banking powers top the Indepen-dent Insurance Agents of Okla-homa’s list of key issues for its 2006 legislative agenda according to Dan Ramsey, the...
Wind-Driven Fires Ease in Texas Panhandle, Conditions Worsen
Mar 17 2006 // The strong winds that pushed wildfires across nearly a million acres of the bone-dry Texas Panhandle were easing early on Thursday, March 16, but in Oklahoma, the fire danger was picking up. A series of wind-whipped grass...
Farm Bureau gets OK to Hike Homeowners Rates in La.
Mar 17 2006 // Roughly 70,000 homeowners in areas hard hit by Hurricane Rita will face insurance hikes of 49 percent that were approved by Louisiana state regulators. The increase affects Louisiana Farm Bureau policyholders. The increase...
Okla. House Passes Comprehensive Lawsuit Reform Package
Mar 16 2006 // Oklahoma House lawmakers advanced a lawsuit reform package, sending a series of bills to the state Senate for consideration. The package is led by the comprehensive Common Sense in the Courtroom Act. House Bill 3120, the...
Okla. Insurance Verification Bill Headed for House Vote
Mar 13 2006 // Lawmakers in Oklahoma’s House of Representatives will soon vote on House Bill 3115, by state Rep. Ron Peterson, which would create an online automobile insurance verification pilot program in Oklahoma. “Online...
Measure to Encourage Safer Driving by Teens Clears Okla. Senate
Mar 13 2006 // Teenagers in Oklahoma with learner’s permits could soon face restrictions on cell phone use while driving. That’s the focus of legislation recently approved by the State Senate. Sen. Clark Jolley, who authored...
Okla. House Committee Approves Republicans’ Lawsuit Reform Bill
Mar 9 2006 // The Oklahoma House of Representatives Judiciary Committee approved House Bill 3120, the Common Sense in the Courtroom Act, which was proposed by the House Republican leadership. The bill now goes to the full House for a...
Oklahoma Senate Votes Against Democrats’ Lawsuit Reform Bill
Mar 8 2006 // The Oklahoma Senate defeated by a vote of 21-25 Senate Bill 1874, which was authored and introduced by the Senate’s Democrat leadership as a lawsuit reform bill. All 21 Republican senators present, joined by four...
Okla. House Committee Approves Bill Protecting Charities
Mar 8 2006 // Legislation that would protect charities from frivolous lawsuits and eliminate the need for those groups to purchase costly liability insurance passed the Oklahoma House Judiciary committee. House Bill 2477, by State Rep....
Health Insurance Plan for Small Business Passed in Okla.
Mar 6 2006 // A bill to expand a program that provides subsidies to cover much of the health insurance costs of employees of small businesses won approval Mar. 2 in the Oklahoma Senate. In other action, senators passed a bill to cut...
Oklahoma City’s North American Group Acquires Davis Duke
Mar 6 2006 // North American Group reported it has purchased Oklahoma City, Okla.-based Davis Duke & Co. Insurance Agency. The employees of Davis Duke have relocated to the North American Group’s Oklahoma City...
Okla. Commissioner: More than $8M in AmCare Funds to be Distributed
Mar 3 2006 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced she has successfully petitioned the Oklahoma County District Court for an early distribution of funds to Oklahomans defrauded or owed money by now defunct AmCare Health...
Okla. Bill Seeks Protection for 9-1-1 Dispatchers Against Lawsuits
Mar 2 2006 // Legislation protecting emergency medical dispatchers from lawsuits has passed the Oklahoma House Appropriations and Budget Committee. The House of Representatives reported that House Bill 2879, by State Representatives...
Holland Seeks Four Years as Okla.’s Insurance Chief
Feb 27 2006 // Kim Holland, appointed by Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry as state insurance commissioner a year ago, formally announced Feb. 23 that she will run for a full four-year term. Her announcement came two days after her predecessor,...
Former Okla. Firefighter Sentenced for Embezzling Insurance Fund
Feb 27 2006 // A former Bartlesville, Okla., firefighter received a five-year prison term for embezzling $166,653 from the firefighters union insurance fund to use to pay for gambling, the Associated Press reported. Washington County...
Guns Missing From Oklahoma Museum Not Insured
Feb 27 2006 // Officials aren’t sure whether Oklahoma taxpayers will have to pay for uninsured weapons that are missing from a famous state gun museum. The J.M. Davis Arms & Historical Museum is covered by insurance but the...
Okla. Commissioner Explains Changes at Insurance Department
Feb 23 2006 // Stringent new ethics rules and the elimination of patronage should limit questions about staff integrity at the scandal-plagued Oklahoma Insurance Department, Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland said in an...
Okla. Senate GOP Claims Democrats Aided Lawyers in Tort Reform Battle
Feb 23 2006 // Oklahoma Senate Republicans are playing hardball, claiming in a news release that trial lawyers won an early victory in the legislative lawsuit reform battle with the help of Democrat “allies” in the state...
‘Dangerous Dog’ Bill Moves Out of Okla. House Committee
Feb 23 2006 // Owners of dangerous dogs in Oklahoma could soon face much harsher penalties if their animals attack another person if a measure passed in the House Health and Human Services Committee makes it through the full legislative...
