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By J.C. Hallman, Oklahoma Watch
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Sometimes they say it’s a billion dollars. Sometimes $1.4 billion. Sometimes $2 billion.

In August of last year, CompSource Mutual — formerly Oklahoma’s insurer of last resort for workers comp insurance — launched an effort to convert into a larger stock company that sells many forms of insurance across the country. Since then, a protracted legal battle has erupted of baffling complexity, legal obfuscations and embarrassing corporate flubs. The battle, at heart, is over CompSource’s surplus assets.

A billion dollars. Or more, depending on which court filing you consult.

On Wednesday, a temporary restraining order hearing in a Noble County courtroom threw a wrench into the conversion process, ensuring additional litigation and confounding CompSource’s conversion timeline.

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