All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 18 2014 // A.M. Best has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the financial strength rating of B++ (Good) and the issuer credit ratings of “bbb” of the members of Houston, Texas-based Columbia Lloyds...
Sep 16 2014 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford is alerting insurance agents, agencies and others that the Arkansas Insurance Department (AID) is converting to a new State Based Systems (SBS) which will mean a temporary...
Sep 12 2014 // A nonprofit created by the Arkansas legislature has decided to delay establishing a state-run health insurance exchange until 2016 to avoid a rush to build the technology system for it.The Arkansas Health Insurance...
Sep 11 2014 // Former workers at a closed Arkansas hospital have filed a lawsuit, claiming administrators withheld part of their pay for insurance but didn’t pay the premiums.The lawsuit was filed by Denny Sumpter, a West Memphis...
Sep 7 2014 // The Arkansas Insurance Department recently announced insurance policies sold through the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace are projected to have a net decrease of two percent in premium costs for 2015.This calculation...
Sep 4 2014 // A University of Arkansas study finds flooding that began in late June will lead to millions of dollars in lost crop value for Arkansas farmers.Farmers in 10 Arkansas counties are expected to lose more than $35 million in...
Aug 22 2014 // An important highway in northeast Arkansas could stay closed into next week as crews clean up the wreckage left from a head-on train collision, a highway official said.Two railroad workers were killed and two others were...
Aug 20 2014 // A deadly head-on train collision in Arkansas proves more needs to be done to improve safety, but implementing fixes industrywide likely won’t occur before a federal deadline, a transportation expert said.Two Union...
Aug 15 2014 // Class action status has been granted in a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil stemming from a 2013 pipeline accident in Mayflower.U.S. District Judge Brian Miller in Little Rock ruled in favor of Arnez and Charletha Harper, the...
Aug 14 2014 // An Arkansas board is delaying its application for funding to establish a state-run health insurance exchange.The Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace Board, created by a law passed by state legislators last year, was...
Aug 13 2014 // Agritourism is growing in Arkansas as more farm owners open their gates to tourists and form a spiderweb-like network among several state agencies and nonprofit organizations.Pumpkin patches, corn mazes, “U-Pick...
Aug 8 2014 // A Gallup report released on Aug. 5 shows that Arkansas outpaced the rest of the country in reducing the rate of residents without health insurance during the first six months of 2014, the Arkansas governor’s office...
Jul 25 2014 // U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has made disaster declarations for farmers and ranchers in 10 Arkansas counties who suffered losses due to storms that began in the affected areas June 29.Vilsack issued disaster...
Jul 8 2014 // A Mount Ida, Ark., man has pleaded guilty to money laundering and wire fraud and prosecutors say he’ll serve five years in prison followed by supervised release and must pay back more than $7 million in...
Jul 2 2014 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford announced that five companies have filed to sell individual health insurance plans on Arkansas’ Federally-facilitated health insurance Marketplace for the 2015 plan...
Jun 24 2014 // Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel filed a lawsuit against a Maumelle man he’s accusing of deceptively marketing chiropractic services to consumers involved in automobile accidents.McDaniel filed the suit in...
Jun 3 2014 // An independent used-car dealer in Arkansas is seeking compensation from General Motors Co. for being saddled with “highly dangerous vehicles” that include cars not yet recalled over ignition-switch...
May 27 2014 // The office of Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe says $68.7 million in damage claims have been filed for individual and commercial entities in Faulkner, Pulaski, Randolph and White Counties following the April 27 tornadoes.The...
May 16 2014 // The operator of a south Arkansas chemical plant that exploded in 2012 has filed a federal lawsuit in Oklahoma against a French company that supplied industrial gas for the facility, arguing that the supplier is responsible...
May 14 2014 // Arkansas’ congressional delegation says Gov. Mike Beebe has added 11 counties to the state’s major disaster declaration request to help in the recovery from last month’s deadly storm. The two senators and...