All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 5 2022 // The Supreme Court of Arkansas has reversed and remanded a decision in an appeal of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission’s denial of a claim for additional medical benefits of an appellant over a...
Apr 4 2022 // Legal malpractice claims usually aren’t filed until after somebody loses a lawsuit. But what happens when the underlying dispute hasn’t been resolved, but a litigant has to hire new counsel to clean up mistakes...
Mar 31 2022 // Severe storms injured seven people, damaged buildings and downed power lines in northwest Arkansas early Wednesday as tornadoes and hurricane-force winds were forecast in much of the Deep South, a week after a twister hit...
Mar 30 2022 // Relation Insurance Services, Inc. announced it acquired the assets of Arkansas-based Dixon Insurance Services, LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Dixon is a multi-line Property & Casualty agency with a...
Mar 21 2022 // At least one person was killed and 20 people wounded, including children, in a shooting outside a car show in southeast Arkansas on March 19, local police said.Keith Finch, chief of police in the town of Dumas, provided...
Mar 21 2022 // A pension fund for teachers in Arkansas has settled with Allianz and dropped its lawsuit over losses in a multibillion-dollar trading debacle at the German insurer’s funds arm, according to a court document.The...
Mar 18 2022 // Legal malpractice claims usually aren’t filed until after somebody loses a lawsuit. But what happens when the underlying dispute hasn’t been resolved, but a litigant has to hire new counsel to clean up mistakes...
Mar 14 2022 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Alan McClain announced on March 10 that Arkansas businesses could see another rate decrease in workers’ compensation insurance in 2022.The Arkansas Insurance Department (AID) approved...
Mar 3 2022 // A pension fund for teachers in Arkansas has settled with Allianz and dropped its lawsuit over losses in a multibillion-dollar trading debacle at the German insurer’s funds arm, according to a court document.The...
Mar 2 2022 // Both the former owner of a Rogers, Arkansas-based medical supply and billing company and its former chief executive officer have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in three separate conspiracies to...
Feb 28 2022 // Dozens of animals including prairie dogs, lemurs and hedgehogs were killed when a fire broke out in a barn at an Arkansas petting zoo, according to a woman who volunteers at the zoo.At a news conference Feb. 25, Jennifer...
Feb 23 2022 // After his house burned down in 2015, Rick Merechka turned in a sworn proof of loss statement telling his insurance company that the replacement value of his household goods was $607,640.But in December 2010, Merechka and...
Feb 16 2022 // Alliant Adds James Madigan as Senior Vice President Within Employee Benefits GroupAlliant has added James “Jimmy” Madigan as senior vice president within its employee benefits group. Based in Fayetteville,...
Feb 14 2022 // A federal judge on Feb. 9 dismissed a lawsuit four sisters of Josh Duggar filed over the release of records from a police investigation that concluded the former reality television star fondled them.U.S. District Judge...
Feb 1 2022 // Arkansas lawmakers on Jan. 28 cleared the way for state-run health care facilities to require employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine after officials warned that blocking the move would jeopardize more than $700 million in...
Jan 28 2022 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Alan McClain has been appointed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to serve as the Chair for the Workers’ Compensation (C) Task Force, a subgroup of the...
Jan 25 2022 // State Farm paid more than $471 million in claims from frozen pipes in 2021, and more than two/thirds of claims can be rooted back to one state: Texas.The Lone Star State accounted for $343 million of frozen pipes claim...
Jan 18 2022 // Three joint state and federal disaster centers are set to open in northeast Arkansas to assist those affected by tornadoes that killed two people in the area in December.Officials with the Federal Emergency Management...
Jan 7 2022 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has announced the acquisition of Little Rock, Arkansas-based The Robbi Davis Agency, Inc.. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1996, RDA is a full-service insurance agency...
Dec 29 2021 // Benchmark Insurance Company, subsidiary of Trean Insurance Group Inc. and a writer of program business, has formed a new excess and surplus lines subsidiary, Benchmark Specialty Insurance Company, an Arkansas domestic...