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A good summary of the entirety of the State Farm scandal…how it got started and where it might be going.

#Oklahoma #StateFarm #Insurance

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Oklahoma lawsuits accuse State Farm of cutting wind and hail claim payouts
A journalist’s reporting outlines allegations that homeowners insurance payouts were reduced as state leaders consider legal intervention.
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December 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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The State Farm corporate thriller story blew up on an Oklahoma scale...and now the attorney general (and possibly the next governor) is stepping in. Queries are flooding in from other states as well...

#Oklahoma #Insurance #StateFarm

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AG Intervenes in State Farm Lawsuit - Oklahoma Watch
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...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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This one started out with a mysterious anonymous tip, and felt like walking into a John Grisham corporate thriller.

#StateFarm #Oklahoma #Insurance

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“It Made Me Feel Like a Sucker”: Long-Running Lawsuits Accuse State Farm of Billion-Dollar Hail Scheme - Oklahoma Watch
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...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
jchallman.bsky.social
$1 billion. That's why you should read this story. Insurance companies make bank on the fact that you find their business boring. Resist!

#Oklahoma #Insurance

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CompSource Flub Raises Questions About a Secretive Reorganization Plan - Oklahoma Watch
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...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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This one is a double-header (sidebar story in comments). Writing about insurance is a challenge (and who knew I'd wind up with anonymous tips about homeowners rates?), but dissecting the idea of competition was very enlightening.

#Oklahoma #Competition #Insurance

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Lawmakers, AG Challenge Insurance Commissioner's Competitive Market Claims - Oklahoma Watch
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...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Truly excellent work from María Guinnip here. 9-months pregnant, Brittany Sanchez was arrested for a crime she didn't commit, and gave birth shackled to a hospital bed. The story gets worse from there...

#Oklahoma #Justice #Pregnancy

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Case of Mistaken Identity or Panhandle 'Family Justice'? Woman's Arrest Highlights Systemic Concerns - Oklahoma Watch
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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November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
jchallman.bsky.social
I'm a little slow in posting this conversation about Say Anarcha with Richard Kreitner, whose book Break it Up ought to be mandatory reading these days. It was an honor.

#History #Gynecology #Anarcha

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The Dark Origins of Modern Women's Health
Listen now | J.C. Hallman on exploitation, monuments, and the stories we tell about the past.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Despite the boring white guy as art for this piece, what's at stake in it is half a billion dollars and half of the shares of a soon-to-be-formed insurance colossus.

#Oklahoma #Insurance

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Critics Say CompSource Plan Will Hurt Policyholders - Oklahoma Watch
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.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Drummond is Oklahoma's leading candidate for governor -- nice to see him acting behind the scenes on a piece of investigative journalism. (Mulready hates my guts.)

#Oklahoma #Insurance #homeownersinsurance

Drummond Takes Mulready to Task Over Homeowners Rates oklahomawatch.org/2025/10/13/d...
Drummond Takes Mulready to Task Over Homeowners Rates - Oklahoma Watch
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...
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October 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
jchallman.bsky.social
Despite readily available funding and training materials, Texas County police make bad arrests that endanger citizens.

H/T Maria Guinnip for taking the lead and doing excellent work on this one.

#epilepsy #epilepsyawareness #Oklahoma #TexasCountyOK

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Seized for Seizing: Lack of Training Endangers Oklahomans with Epilepsy - Oklahoma Watch
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.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Prosecutorial misconduct is a trend in OK. But do all defendants wrongly tried get treated the same?

I was very happy to have had the chance to work with Haley Parsley on this one.

#Oklahoma #NAACP

Withheld Evidence Emerges in Another Old Murder Case oklahomawatch.org/2025/09/24/w...
Withheld Evidence Emerges in Another Old Murder Case - Oklahoma Watch
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 ...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
jchallman.bsky.social
The organization that oversees high school athletics and activities in Oklahoma has gone to court 40 times in 22 years...

#Oklahoma #HighSchoolSports

Full Court Press: How OSSAA’s Latest Legal Loss Extends Basketball Controversy oklahomawatch.org/2025/09/22/f...
Full Court Press: How OSSAA’s Latest Legal Loss Extends Basketball Controversy - Oklahoma Watch
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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September 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
jchallman.bsky.social
I wrote something very strange...I present it with deep gratitude to Gertrude Stein.

#Art #Meaning #GertrudeStein

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What is Meaning and Why is There So Little of It? - Pittsburgh Review of Books
A work of art means what its artist means it to mean this is what the word artist means for the same reason this sentence means what I mean it to mean.
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September 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I made a judge very angry with me.

#Oklahoma #Guardianship #RestrainingOrder #GagOrder

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Judge Attempts to Quash Press Investigation With Gag Order - Oklahoma Watch
A gag order issued in the guardianship case of Estelle Simonton exposes deep concerns in Oklahoma’s guardianship system.
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September 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
jchallman.bsky.social
I very nearly got arrested for this one.

#Guardianship #Oklahoma #eldercare

Oklahoma Unprepared for Looming Guardianship Crisis oklahomawatch.org/2025/09/04/o...
Oklahoma Unprepared for Looming Guardianship Crisis - Oklahoma Watch
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...
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September 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
jchallman.bsky.social
Covering insurance has been a huge surprise -- full of fundamental ideas with national implications. Huge thanks to my editor for going with my chosen headline...

#Oklahoma #Insurance #CarInsurance

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The Rates of Wrath - Oklahoma Watch
A 2019 Consumer Federation of America auto insurance study reveals that California's prior-approval regulatory framework outperforms Oklahoma's file-and-use framework, costing Oklahomans billions.
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August 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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If you want to avoid the “snitch mills” of Texas County, you might have to defend yourself.

#Oklahoma #CriminalJustice

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DIY Justice: In the Panhandle, You Might Have to Defend Yourself - Oklahoma Watch
The story of a Texas County mom uncovers irregularities in panhandle justice – small town conflicts of interest and snitch mills – and becomes a parable about when an accused might need to defend them...
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August 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Very thoughtful and insightful interview with Ted Genoways for the Brooklyn Rail. I was drawn to the book because I know only too well the joys and sorrows of deeply researched work from the deep past...

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TED GENOWAYS with J.C. Hallman | The Brooklyn Rail
Ted Genoways’s Tequila Wars is a little bit Gabriel García Márquez, a little bit Mario Puzo, maybe a little bit Deadwood, and even a little bit Cormanc McCarthy, at times.
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August 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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"You'll be disappeared": A second seizure attempt of a vulnerable adult in Oklahoma.

#Eldercare #Okalhoma #Tulsa #Guardianship

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Failed Seizure of a Vulnerable Vet at Oklahoma’s Largest Hospital Hints at Crisis to Come for Aging Population - Oklahoma Watch
Investigation of a second harrowing attempt to seize control of an elderly vet establishes a troubling pattern of abuse in the St. Francis Health System and uncovers hints of turmoil and controversy a...
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July 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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A very brave individual -- a former patrol officer in Guymon -- reached out to Oklahoma Watch to draw attention to some unreported stories of police abuse.

#Oklahoma #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #Investigativereporter

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Anonymous Source Sheds Light on Panhandle Police Impunity - Oklahoma Watch
A tip from a former Guymon police officer offers hard evidence of police abuses characteristic of rural Oklahoma.
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July 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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This piece took me deep into the history of actuaries, and plunged me into the vagaries of Oklahoma law. OK law actually prevents the insurance department from protecting consumers.

#Oklahoma #Insurance #Actuary #HomeownersInsurance

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Oklahoma Has Nation's Highest Average Homeowners Insurance Premiums - Oklahoma Watch
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready continues to misrepresent Oklahoma’s insurance model, masking statutory quirks that fetishize free market economics and cost Oklahomans millions of dollar...
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July 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Very pleased to have had this conversation with Joe Pan, about a book that has been living in the back of my mind for years.

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JOE PAN with J.C. Hallman | The Brooklyn Rail
Joe Pan's novel Florida Palms—preceded by five collections of poetry—began to take shape in those days, and I was a fan of the work because it aspired to do what Francis Ford Coppola did in Apocalypse...
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July 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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When I first wrote this in 2014, it seemed like science fiction. When I published it in 2020, it appeared prescient. Now, it reads like history.

Many thanks to Hélène Cardona for giving a new home to the weirdest thing I ever produced.

#shortstory #ai

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On The Pursuit of Human-Level Interestingness Value in AI2-Generated Literary Textual Events — The Creative Process
Recently deployed Authorial Intelligence (AI2) techniques, composed of drama management components and natural language generation algorithms, combined with a more speculative Reader Intelligence (RI)...
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July 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Medical parole follow-up: The Oklahoma Supreme Court issued a unanimous order enabling a district court to rule that the department of corrections broke the law in this case.

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ODOC Fights to Prevent Medical Parole Hearing for Dying Prisoner - Oklahoma Watch
The ongoing saga of James Havens’ attempt to secure medical parole reveals intransigence at the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and tests the integrity of the Oklahoma justice system.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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This story is every family's nightmare. I had no idea how common this was. And a bit of advice to hospitals and gov't officials: not talking to journalists won't save you.

#Oklahoma #NursingHome #Elderlycare #Hospital

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Eldercare Nightmare: A Tragic Family Story Raises the Specter of Widespread Guardianship Fraud - Oklahoma Watch
The horrifying story of Leroy Theodore suggests that a plague of elder guardianship cases common in other parts of the country may have arrived in Oklahoma.
oklahomawatch.org
June 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM