The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) said Oklahoma has become the 20th jurisdiction to use its State Based Systems (SBS).

An Oklahoma County District Court judge has ruled that an insolvent property-casualty company is now in the hands of state regulators.

Following two days of severe storms that caused widespread damage in the state and is attributed to at least two deaths, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland issued an emergency order to speed up claims.

With attorneys general from several states threatening to challenge the federal government’s newly-enacted health reform efforts, the association representing state insurance regulators says it will proceed as if the new guidelines are law.

The public option –long debated and absent from President Barack Obama’s health reform plan – appears to no longer be an option.

Insurance regulators in both Oklahoma and Washington state have issued sanctions against companies they say are illegally selling health coverage in their states.

West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline was elected as the next president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Jane Cline

Cline, elected along with three others to the group’s executive …  Read →

A former Oklahoma insurance agent faces a pair of felony charges for allegedly defrauding a couple out of more than $40,000 through a fictional company.

Richard Wallen of Yukon, Okla., was …  Read →

Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland is warning state insurance producers to be wary of any phone calls seeking personal information from people posing as state regulators.

Kim Holland

In a warning …  Read →

Thought you had seen it all? Think again.

Oklahoma’s insurance commissioner, Kim Holland, wants to penalize those who don’t have health insurance with such tactics as forcing them to forfeit their …  Read →