The insurance giant has been in a legal battle in Oklahoma over allegedly systematic attempts to bilk policyholders. Newly released court documents show the depth of the problem.

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The problem at the heart of Oklahoma insurance law

Documents filed in a lawsuit against State Farm show the insurer hoped to use artificial intelligence for "outcome-based claims handling."

As State Farm roof claim cases brought by Oklahoma families approach trials in late 2026, documents and depositions have been litigated.

The insurance giant has been in a legal battle in Oklahoma over allegedly systematic attempts to bilk policyholders. Newly released court documents show the depth of the problem.

Oklahoma prison inmates are working in call centers placing political calls and insurance telemarketing on behalf of outside companies, earning $2 an hour while a Virginia super PAC paid nearly $600,0...

Lawyers who have accumulated more than 1,200 bad faith insurance cases against State Farm and Allstate are now speaking publicly for the first time about secret documents that reveal decades-long sche...

Insurance Commissioner candidate Marty Quinn signed an oath saying he was a resident of Oklahoma. But is the commissioner required to be a resident at all?

The Oklahoma Supreme Court unanimously denied Attorney General Gentner Drummond's effort to intervene in the State Farm hail claim case but simultaneously told him exactly how to proceed instead. With...

Four Republican candidates for Oklahoma insurance commissioner squared off Tuesday over whether insurance executives found guilty of bad faith should face potential jail time, with candidates splittin...

Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready denied a request for a public hearing on homeowners insurance competitiveness in April, then called for an identical hearing six weeks later. Critics say ...

In 2023 in a region once known as No Man's Land, a DA agent collided with an immigrant family, killing an 8-year-old girl and her grandfather. OHP's investigation raises questions.

A binder of internal State Farm documents compiled by a whistleblower with Oklahoma roots has surfaced at an Oklahoma City law office, offering a 30-year window into the company's corporate philosophy...

he Oklahoma Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday on whether Attorney General Gentner Drummond can intervene in the State Farm hail claim case — a hearing made more remarkable by the revelation th...

A Pottawatomie County Sheriff's lieutenant died of a gunshot wound ruled a suicide in April 2023. His daughter disputes that finding, citing journal entries documenting corruption concerns, inconsiste...

A retired federal administrative law judge in Edmond found himself caught in State Farm's alleged hail claim scheme after the insurer denied his roof claim, refused to share the adjuster's report and ...

CompSource Mutual’s effort to convert to a stock company was dealt a serious blow when eleventh-hour drama resulted in the sudden granting of a restraining order sought by policyholders who question t...

Oklahoma's small-town newspapers are stretched thin by shrinking staffs and economic pressures, even as vigilante journalists and social media groups rush to fill the void. Interviews with 26 editors ...

A Supreme Court referee heard the latest arguments in the State Farm hail scheme case that has inspired hundreds of lawsuits across the state.

Duncan police have arrested at least 11 people on drug and other charges following bicycle stops based on a city ordinance superseded by state law in 2021. Oklahoma's Idaho stop law allows cyclists to...

Oklahoma's guardianship system is failing the vulnerable people it is meant to protect, marked by sealed records, compressed hearings, undisclosed conflicts of interest and judges without adequate tra...

Hearings on two almost identical motions to dismiss in cases against State Farm captive agents raise questions about how culpable agents are in Oklahoma’s ongoing hail claim saga and provide additiona...

State Farm denied the roof claim of a 73-year-old Tulsa woman who was a loyal customer for 53 years, eight days after the attorney general filed RICO charges over similar denials. A manager overruled ...

State Farm denied a roof claim for Karen Powers, who spent nearly 40 years selling insurance for the company while battling cancer. An adjuster threatened she would be fired if her family hired a publ...

In May, Rep. Mark Tedford, R-Tulsa, presented a State Farm request bill on the floor of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The bill sailed through the Senate but failed in the House. As the new le...

Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready may have broken the law when he publicly suggested an investigation of State Farm was underway. Regardless, the tragic story of Bradley and Farah Cox reve...

Craig Gutierrez thought he was alone in fighting back against a denied hail claim from State Farm. But then the news hit: there are hundreds of such cases in Oklahoma. Gutierrez and many others are no...

Since 2023, investigative journalist Molly Bullock has been documenting the history of the Arkansas River, asking difficult questions about whether the city of Tulsa was ready for floods that were muc...

Emotions flared and patience was tested as Oklahoma County District Court Judge Amy Palumbo granted Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s effort to intervene in a State Farm hail case that has raised ir...

Critics say new laws proposed by the insurance department ignore pervasive and sustained outrage over skyrocketing homeowners rates and would make it more difficult for policyholders to fight back.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s petition charging State Farm with racketeering under Oklahoma’s version of the RICO laws is not the first time that Oklahoma’s largest writer of homeowners insuranc...

A journalist’s reporting outlines allegations that homeowners insurance payouts were reduced as state leaders consider legal intervention.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed a motion to intervene today in a case against State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, alleging that the company operated a coordinated program to limit roof-relat...

Upwards of 200 policyholders waged years-long — and ongoing — battles against State Farm. Thousands of pages of filings revealed allegations of a scheme worth billions of dollars, perpetrated by Oklah...

CompSource Mutual falsely claimed Oklahoma's insurance commissioner approved its controversial demutualization plan, prompting immediate removal of the misleading notice. Critics say the billion-dolla...

As officials bicker over Oklahoma’s homeowners insurance market and lawmakers contemplate new legislation, Oklahoma Watch investigates measures of market concentration and digs into legal history to u...

Brittany Sanchez gave birth to her first child while shackled to a hospital bed. Despite another person's confession, Sanchez served multiple sentences and spent years torn from her children.

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A surprise August hearing was for many the first sign of a huge change in workers’ comp insurance in Oklahoma that critics say is an effort to rob policyholders of millions of dollars.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond sharply criticized Oklahoma Insurance Department Commissioner Glen Mulready in an Aug. 12 letter over stewardship of the state’s only regulatory safeguard against out...

Despite laudable recent progress in Oklahoma law, the story of Nikole Janowski reveals the inadequacy of response to individuals suffering from epilepsy, particularly in regard to law enforcement.

Joshua Christon was convicted in 2008 of a crime he may not have committed; similarities to the beleaguered prosecution of Richard Glossip have activist groups and Christon’s family calling for equal ...

Payne County District Judge Michael Kulling’s rejection of a key OSSAA argument in the case of four teenage basketball players attempting to transfer from one school to another raises questions about ...

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A gag order issued in the guardianship case of Estelle Simonton exposes deep concerns in Oklahoma’s guardianship system.

Dramatic confrontations in the stories of Rena Denton and Estelle Simonton expose ignorance of eldercare law among Oklahoma eldercare professionals and betray the inadequacy of guardianship laws and r...