Oklahoma

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Oklahoma State Mortality Rates	Oklahoma State Mortality Rates 1999-2006 Oklahoma African American Female Oklahoma African American Male Oklahoma Hispanic (2186-2) Female Oklahoma Hispanic (2186-2) Male Oklahoma Native American Female Oklahoma Native America Male Oklahoma White Female Oklahoma White Male
CITY OF TULSA FIRE DEPT. v. MILLER	Keith A. Miller was a twelve-year member of the Tulsa Fire Department where he worked as a first responder. Sometime during his employment, he contracted hepatitis C. The Workers' Compensation Court found that, as is often the case in these types of claims, the claimant could not testify as to which, of several exposures, was the source of the disease. It then found the claim compensable. A three-judge panel unanimously affirmed. We sustain the order.
Victims tell of tears, pain from hepatitis	Too weak to stand, Pamela Wallace asked if she could sit to address the court. Once a faceless, nameless plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit, Wallace chose Friday to identify herself, by name and profession, by offering personal details and private longings, and by detailing, once and for all, what she has lost.

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