Cimarron Pipeline Construction, Inc. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Insurance Co.

ALMA WILSON, Justice.

Pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, 20 O.S.1981, §§ 1601 et seq., the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma certified the following question to this Court:

“Is economic compulsion or economic duress recognized as an independent tort under Oklahoma law?”

This question of law arises out of allegations by plaintiff (Cimarron) that it and similarly situated employers, as a prerequisite to the purchase of workers’ compensation insurance, were coerced by defendant (USF & G) and all other insurers who write workers’…