All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 24 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Arkansas awarded Lenita Blasingame, chief deputy commissioner at the Arkansas Insurance Department, with the Allan Kennedy Memorial Award.The award, presented at the agent group’s...
Jun 24 2015 // Federal inspectors found several violations during their most recent review of Spectra Energy’s Texas Eastern Transmission system, which includes the pipeline that burst in the Arkansas River in May.Spectra Energy...
Jun 23 2015 // Arkansas State Police is citing a 21-year-old federal privacy law as their reason for withholding information from vehicle crash reports.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the agency’s new policy, which began...
Jun 23 2015 // Arkansas insurance industry leaders have established the Arkansas Insurance Hall of Fame (AIHF) and are now taking nominations for its first honorees.The AIHF will be housed within the College of Business at the University...
Jun 15 2015 // Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance has launched Rideshare Insurance Coverage for ride-hailing drivers in Arkansas.Farmers worked with representatives of the Arkansas Insurance Department, legislators and leaders of...
Jun 15 2015 // The tiny town of Concord, Ark., is facing a federal civil-rights lawsuit from drivers who say they were pulled over as part of a money making ploy by police.suit claims that “over a period of several years, literally...
Jun 12 2015 // A former Arkansas district judge convicted of drug charges has been sentenced in an unrelated mail fraud case involving American Indian artifacts.Bob Castleman, who was a judge in Pocahontas over a decade ago, has been...
Jun 4 2015 // A two-mile section of the Arkansas River near Little Rock remained closed on June 3 following the rupture of a pipeline that released enough natural gas to fuel about 65 homes for a year.U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Jonathan...
Jun 1 2015 // A disaster declaration signed by Pres. Barak Obama will help citizens in Harris, Hays and Van Zandt counties in Texas as they begin to recover from violent storm systems that brought tornadoes, high winds and massive...
May 28 2015 // Farmers across Arkansas are still weathering a series of spring showers that have flooded fields, smothered crops and swept away cattle.Since March 1, between 12 to 18 inches of rain has fallen across the Arkansas River...
May 26 2015 // Arkansas Treasurer Settles Ex-Employee’s Civil Rights/Disability LawsuitArkansas’ treasurer has settled a federal lawsuit filed against him by a former employee when he served as the Saline County clerk. An...
May 20 2015 // Court filings show pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $7.8 million to settle a lawsuit over how the company marketed an antipsychotic drug to Arkansas doctors. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette...
May 18 2015 // Whirlpool has agreed to pay the owners of 49 properties in Arkansas that lost value after it was discovered that a former plant of the appliance-maker had leaked a hazardous chemical into the groundwater for decades.Fort...
May 14 2015 // Voters in a northwest Arkansas town have upheld an expanded anti-discrimination ordinance passed by the City Council in February.Preliminary results show the Eureka Springs ordinance was ratified by a 579-231 vote in a...
May 13 2015 // Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has declared a state of disaster in counties hit in recent days by severe weather that’s included tornadoes, thunderstorms and heavy rains that brought flooding.Likewise, Arkansas Gov. Asa...
May 12 2015 // Emergency responders on May 11 searched through wreckage in parts of the states of Texas and Arkansas after a line of tornadoes battered several small communities, killing at least five people, including a young couple...
May 7 2015 // A $15,000 settlement has been reached in a case between a central Arkansas city and two of its employees over accusations that City Clerk and Treasurer Joshua Clausen sexually harassed them.The payment approved by the...
May 6 2015 // Constellation, a mutual holding company, announced that Little Rock-based medical professional liability insurance provider, Arkansas Mutual Insurance Co., is joining its family of companies.Arkansas Mutual will be the...
May 4 2015 // The Arkansas Insurance Department in mid-April announced a decrease in workers’ compensation rates that will become effective July 1.The overall loss cost decrease in the voluntary market is 2.1 percent, while the...
Apr 27 2015 // An insurance company is asking a Pulaski County, Ark., judge to declare it has no responsibility to pay court judgments against the homeowners policy of a follower of imprisoned evangelist Tony Alamo. The judgments are...