All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 3 2016 // Exxon Mobil has paid a $2.63 million fine more than three years after its Pegasus pipeline ruptured and spilled thousands of gallons of crude into a Mayflower neighborhood.Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety...
May 2 2016 // The workers’ compensation insurance markets in South Central states are relatively stable and are experiencing a drop in rates across the board. However, reforms made in Oklahoma in 2013 continue to be challenged in...
Apr 27 2016 // Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has approved the wording of a measure to limit lawsuit damages awarded against health care providers, clearing the way for supporters to try and put the proposal on the November...
Apr 27 2016 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has approved Ohio-based All America Insurance Co. (AAIC) and Central Mutual Insurance Co. (CMIC) to do business in the state.The companies now have the authority to offer...
Apr 25 2016 // Atlantic Coast Life Insurance Company (ACL) has been approved to do business in Arkansas, the state insurance department announced. ACL, a South Carolina domestic insurer since 1925, currently offers a variety of life,...
Apr 21 2016 // In the past month, three landscape company employees have died in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas when riding mowers or tractors overturned into water or a stream bed — equaling the total in the previous six years, a...
Apr 18 2016 // The state’s top insurance regulator has approved a decrease in workers’ compensation rates in Arkansas.Effective July 1, the overall loss cost in the voluntary market will decline by 4.3 percent and the overall...
Apr 14 2016 // A Little Rock, Ark., man received a 30-month sentence for auto insurance fraud following a negotiated guilty plea, the Arkansas Insurance Department reported.Tyus West, 28, entered a plea of guilty to one count of...
Apr 13 2016 // Thunderstorms with high winds and frequent lightning rolled across Arkansas’ southern counties on April 11, bowling over trees and starting a number of fires.Lightning or static electricity triggered a fire in a...
Apr 4 2016 // The National Weather Service says a tornado touched down earlier this week in Dermott, Ark. about 115 miles southeast of Little Rock near the Mississippi border. Meteorologist Anna Wolverton at the weather service’s...
Apr 4 2016 // Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr issued a cease and desist order against Tampa, Fla.-based Health Plan Intermediaries Holdings LLC, dba Health Insurance Innovations (HII), alleging the company is using fraudulent and...
Apr 4 2016 // Three homes were damaged and another was destroyed in northwest Arkansas when severe weather swept through the area late on March 23. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says damage was reported in Evansville,...
Apr 3 2016 // The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has upheld its $2.6 million fine against Exxon Mobile Pipeline Co. over an oil spill in central Arkansas.The agency has notified Exxon Mobil of its decision....
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Mar 30 2016 // An Arkansas man has been sentenced for 15 years in prison for two counts of insurance fraud, the state insurance department announced.Cody Martin, 29, pleaded guilty in Pulaski County Circuit Court in January to two counts...
Mar 28 2016 // Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has issued a cease and desist order against Health Plan Intermediaries Holdings LLC., dba Health Insurance Innovations (HII), a Tampa, Florida-based company, alleging the company has used...
Mar 25 2016 // Three homes were damaged and another was destroyed in northwest Arkansas when severe weather swept through the area. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says the damage was reported late on March 23 in Evansville,...
Mar 24 2016 // A jury has cleared Little Rock, Ark., of claims that city officials discriminated in their salary considerations for a black diversity manager.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the all-white jury determined that...
Mar 22 2016 // A lack of succession planning, the costs of fighting cyberattacks and competition with online mortgage companies that have no brick and mortar branches are some of the reasons the number of banks in Arkansas has fallen by...
Mar 21 2016 // A regional employer survey suggests that northwest Arkansas companies want to create more than 3,100 jobs and invest more than $336 million in expansion during the next three years.Arkansas Business reports that a quarter...