J.C. Hallman

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 $600,000 to the vendor for calls supporting conservative candidates — including calls made during Oklahoma's primary election season.

After months of refusing to speak on the record about Oklahoma’s ongoing roof claim saga, attorneys representing policyholders in bad faith claims against insurance giants State Farm and Allstate are speaking out about the contents of secret documents at the heart of alleged schemes to rob Oklahomans of millions of dollars.

On April 1, declaring his candidacy for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner, Marty Quinn signed an oath attesting that he had been a resident of Oklahoma for five years. Surprisingly, that statement is highly controversial.

The Supreme Court’s denial of AG Drummond’s effort to intervene in a prominent State Farm bad faith case contains a silver lining: precise instructions from the Court on how the AG should file a new lawsuit against the insurance giant.

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 the reversal came too late and with too many caveats, including Mulready declaring the market competitive before the hearing even takes place.

An eight-year-old girl lay undiscovered for six hours after a Guymon crash that killed her and her grandfather when a drug task force officer's vehicle, traveling 85 mph in a 70 mph zone, struck their car. Records show a haphazard investigation, no photos taken, no interviews conducted and an incomplete collision report.

State Farm whistleblower and Oklahoma native Ina DeLong left a binder of damning documents with Oklahoma City attorney Charles Weddle — then she disappeared.

Was Lt. Bob Stewart an impulsive suicide or the victim of something more nefarious? His daughter, Morgan Stewart, conducted her own investigation to find out and was left with troubling questions about the toxic fallout that descends on law enforcement officers who call out corruption among their own ranks.

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 threatened to cancel his coverage if he didn't pay for a new roof himself.

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 resources.