The Oklahoma Legislature passed four measures that alter the state workers’ compensation system, including one that requires Senate confirmation of Workers’ Compensation Court judges – a proposal that Gov. Brad Henry vetoed last year. The House and Senate sent the …
Violent storms that tore through the southern Plains on May 10 killed five people and injured dozens more, leaving behind flattened homes, toppled semitrailers and downed power lines. Several tornadoes were reported in Oklahoma and Kansas as the storms moved …
The author of legislation authorizing the sale of Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation insurance agency said he does not have enough votes to pass it in the state House and that the bill appears dead for the year. But Rep. Dan Sullivan, …
A proposal to sell Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation insurance agency could force businesses to pay higher rates and make the insurance unaffordable for new and high-risk employers, according to Attorney General Drew Edmondson. Edmondson, a Democratic candidate for governor, said he …
Oklahoma gives away billions of dollars in tax revenue through hundreds of exemptions, credits and deductions that some lawmakers say the state may no longer be able to afford as it slips deeper into a revenue shortfall. Tax breaks have …
The state of Oklahoma could raise between $150 million and $200 million if it sold the agency that writes worker’s compensation insurance to the highest private bidder, officials of a Chandler-based insurance company told members of a legislative task force …
In a recent meeting of a task force considering privatizing Oklahoma’s state-backed workers’ compensation insurer, CompSource Oklahoma, Nevada insurance executives said workers’ comp rates have dropped in that state since the agency providing such insurance was privatized 10 years ago. …
A resolution that would ask voters to require Senate confirmation of Oklahoma Worker’s Compensation Court judges has passed the Oklahoma House less than a month after Gov. Brad Henry vetoed similar legislation. The House voted 60-37 for the bill and …
A state workers’ health insurance plan in Oklahoma recently came under renewed criticism when state lawmakers and plan administrators said it may take months to get rid of a backlog of more than 200,000 unpaid health care claims filed by …
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland said she is “grossly disappointed and frankly mad” about a continuing backlog of more than 200,000 unpaid health insurance claims in a state workers’ insurance plan. “That is just absolutely unacceptable,” Holland said of the …
