Latest Arkansas Headlines
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2 Ohio Property/Casualty Insurers Approved to Operate in Arkansas
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...
Arkansas Admits New Life, Accident, Health Insurance Provider
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,...
OSHA: 3 in South Central States Killed when Riding Mowers Overturn
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...
Workers’ Comp Costs to Decline in Arkansas
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...
Arkansas Man Gets 30-Month Sentence for Insurance Fraud
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...
Fires in Arkansas Blamed on Lightning, Static
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...
Weather Service Confirms Arkansas Tornado
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...
Arkansas Orders Florida Health Plan to Stop Selling in State
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...
Homes Damaged, Destroyed by Severe Storms in Arkansas
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,...
$2.6M Fine Against Exxon over Arkansas Oil Spill Upheld
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....
Workers’ Comp Costs Decline in Arkansas
Mar 31 2016 //
Arkansas Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Insurance Fraud
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...
Arkansas Orders Florida Health Plan to Stop Selling in State
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...
Homes Damaged by Severe Storms in Northwest Arkansas
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,...
Arkansas Jury Sides with City in Employee Discrimination Suit
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...
35% of Arkansas Banks Closed in Past Decade
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...
Survey: NW Arkansas Companies Seek to Hire Thousands, Expand Rapidly
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...
Despite Energy Job Losses, South Central States Report Some Employment Gains
Mar 21 2016 // While oil and gas industry job losses had an impact in the South Central states over the last year, Arkansas, Louisiana Oklahoma and Texas still saw decreases in unemployment rates in 2015. Year-over-year from 2014 to...
Water Starting to Recede from Homes in North Louisiana
Mar 15 2016 // Emergency officials in Louisiana and Mississippi were watching the rise of the Pearl River that divides the two states on March 14 amid widespread flooding that has damaged thousands of homes. In north Louisiana, the water...
Weather Service Assessing Possible Tornado Damage in Arkansas
Mar 15 2016 // The National Weather Service is sending investigators to assess damage and determine if tornadoes touched down in Arkansas as a fast-moving storm system brought rain and hail across the state. Meteorologist Michael Brown...
