Oklahoma AG, Insurance Commissioner announce $25M settlement with Farmers Insurance
Oklahoma AG s Office
OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General Mike Hunter and Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready on Monday announced a $25 million settlement with Farmers Insurance for the company’s handling of earthquake claims.
An investigation revealed that Farmers denied or failed to properly pay approximately one thousand earthquake claims submitted by Oklahomans who purchased coverage to protect their property. As a result, the company will reopen the claims process and re-evaluate the claims using an independent administrator. Claims approved by the independent administrator will be paid pursuant to an individual insured’s policy.
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Okla. asks court to reconsider overturned murder conviction in tribal dispute
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April 1 (UPI) Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has asked a state appeals court to reconsider its ruling overturning the conviction of a death row inmate on tribal jurisdiction grounds.
Hunter filed a motion Thursday asking the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to rehear Shaun Bosse s case.
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He was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder in 2010 for the deaths of his girlfriend, Katrina Griffin, and her two children, Christian Griffin and Chasity. The conviction was overturned earlier this year after the Supreme Courtruled that state courts don t have jurisdiction over crimes that happen on tribal land and involve tribal members.
Oklahoman
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter launched an effort Wednesday to preserve state jurisdiction over certain crimes involving Native Americans on reservations and to prevent some state inmates from getting their convictions overturned for crimes committed in Indian Country.
In a petition filed in the case of death row inmate Shaun Michael Bosse, Hunter said the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals overlooked key arguments when it ruled earlier this month that Bosse, a non-Indian, should have been tried in federal court for killing Katrina Griffin and her two children, who were members of the Chickasaw Nation.
The attorney general also said the appeals court should have prevented Bosse from appealing his conviction in the wake of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding crimes on Indian reservations because he hadn’t previously raised the question of jurisdiction.
Credit Office of Attorney General
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Oklahoma’s attorney general on Wednesday asked the state’s highest criminal court to reconsider its ruling overturning a man’s murder convictions and death sentence because of jurisdictional issues stemming from the U.S. Supreme Court’s determination that much of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on March 11 overturned the conviction and sentence of Shaun Michael Bosse, 38, and rejected Attorney General Mike Hunter’s claim that the state had concurrent jurisdiction in the case.
In what is known as the McGirt decision, the Supreme Court in July 2020 ruled by a 5-4 vote that Oklahoma prosecutors lack the authority to pursue criminal charges for crimes committed on tribal reservations in which the defendants or the victims are tribal citizens.