All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 18 2018 // Arkansas lawmakers recommended regulators move forward on Jan. 16 with efforts to ban an herbicide that farmers in several states say has drifted onto their crops and caused damage, advancing the prohibition despite a...
Jan 11 2018 // Arkansas has the sixteenth lowest auto insurance rates and the lower rates than any of the states it borders, the state insurance department reports.The Arkansas Insurance Department cited a study by the National...
Jan 8 2018 // A jury has rejected claims from the relatives of a man who died in a lawn mowing accident in North Little Rock in 2012. Cedric Quinn Hill was found crushed to death under a Kubota L275 tractor in May 2012. His family filed...
Jan 8 2018 // Two additional property/casualty insurance carriers have been approved to conduct business in Arkansas.The Arkansas Insurance Department (AID) announced in December that Lemonade Insurance Co., has received a Certificate...
Jan 5 2018 // Arkansas in 2017 had a 4 percent rise in the number of licensed insurance agencies compared with the previous year, the Arkansas Insurance Department (AID) reported.In an announcement released by the AID, Arkansas...
Jan 4 2018 // Arkansas agricultural regulators stuck with a proposal on Wednesday to prohibit sprayings of a controversial weed killer after mid-April, despite a lawsuit over the plan by manufacturer Monsanto Co.The state’s plant...
Jan 4 2018 // “According to CoreLogic, a leading source for flood and disaster risk data, approximately 70 percent of the flood damage from Hurricane Harvey was uninsured….” states Clearsurance in their recently...
Jan 3 2018 // There was a 21 percent increase in insurance agent licensure in Arkansas in 2017 compared with the previous year, state insurance regulators announced.According to Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr, the...
Dec 28 2017 // Columbus, Ohio-based insurtech company, Root Insurance, has received authorization to sell property/casualty (excluding workers’ compensation) products in Arkansas.Root is a private passenger auto insurance company...
Dec 22 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to a Florida insurer to begin selling residential property insurance products in Arkansas.Gainesville, Fla.-based Tower Hill Signature...
Dec 20 2017 // Insurtech company, Lemonade, has received a Certificate of Authority to do business in Arkansas.Lemonade Insurance Co. has been approved to sell property, casualty and marine products in Arkansas with an initial limit to...
Dec 19 2017 // A jury has rejected claims from the relatives of a man who died in a lawn-mowing accident in North Little Rock five years ago. Cedric Quinn Hill was found crushed to death under a Kubota L275 tractor in May 2012. His...
Dec 15 2017 // Arkansas lawmakers have recommended a regulatory panel look at revising its proposed ban of an herbicide farmers in several states say has drifted onto their crops and caused damage, nearly a month after a maker of the...
Dec 12 2017 // The Arkansas State Medical Board has approved draft regulations aimed at reducing opioid abuse.The board unanimously voted in favor of the regulations on Dec. 7. The requirements are based on guidelines issued last year by...
Dec 11 2017 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Arkansas farmers received $466 million in federal “safety net” payments this year for their crop losses in 2016, third highest in the nation. The Arkansas...
Dec 8 2017 // Monsanto has asked a judge to prevent Arkansas from enforcing a proposal going before lawmakers next week that would ban the use of a weed killer that farmers in several states have said drifts onto their crops and causes...
Dec 4 2017 // Conditions are ripe for winter wildfires from the mid-South through the Great Plains thanks to a combination of weather factors, including the climate phenomenon known as La Nina, that have left a lot of dry growth.In...
Dec 1 2017 // Forestry officials diverted a surveillance plane from its assigned path because a drone hovered above a northern Arkansas wildfire, prompting them to caution people that airborne efforts to take unique photographs endanger...
Nov 29 2017 // State forestry officials say the risk for wildfires remains high throughout Arkansas as dry conditions persist. The Arkansas Forestry Commission says firefighters have suppressed more than 100 wildfires since Thanksgiving....
Nov 20 2017 // A new Arkansas-based surplus lines insurer has been approved to do business in the state, according to the Arkansas Insurance Department.Vault E&S Insurance Company has been granted authority to sell property, casualty...