Latest Arkansas Headlines
All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Drought in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas Opens Loans for Farmers
May 9 2022 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture says drought during the growing season has made farmers in most of Texas, all of Louisiana and parts of Arkansas and Mississippi eligible to apply for federal aid. The department’s...
Arkansas Sues Family Dollar Over Rodents in Distribution Facility
May 2 2022 // Arkansas is suing Family Dollar over the discovery of more than 1,000 rodents in a distribution facility in the state that prompted the discount retail chain to recall items purchased from hundreds of stores in the...
Arkansas Sues Hospital for Failing to Protect Sensitive Patient Information
Apr 14 2022 // Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced last month a lawsuit against. Eastern Ozarks Regional Health System for failing to protect sensitive patient information, both person and medical, after the hospital...
People Moves: Iroquois Names Howard Regional Manager of OK, AR; CoVerica Names Cox as President & CEO
Apr 12 2022 // Iroquois Names Lucas Howard as Regional Manager of Oklahoma and Arkansas Iroquois has named Lucas Howard as regional manager of Oklahoma and Arkansas. He will partner with strong independent insurance agencies and select...
NWS: EF-3 Stronger of 2 Tornadoes to Hit Arkansas in Late March
Apr 8 2022 // A second, weak, tornado struck Arkansas last week as severe storms rolled across the Deep South, according to the National Weather Service in Little Rock. On March 30, an EF-1 tornado with winds of about 100 mph (161 kph)...
Arkansas Supreme Court Rules for Appellant in Elapsed Time Workers’ Comp Case
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...
Court Allows Arkansas Malpractice Claim to Proceed Before Underlying Suit is Resolved
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...
Arkansas Tornadoes Injure At Least 7
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...
Relation Acquires Arkansas-Based Dixon
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...
Shooting at Arkansas Car Show Kills At Least 1, Injures 20
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...
Arkansas Teachers Fund Agrees to $643M Settlement With Allianz Over Losses
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...
8th Circuit: Arkansas Law Allows Malpractice Action to Proceed Before Underlying Suit is Resolved
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...
Arkansas Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates to Decrease in 2022
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...
Arkansas Teachers Fund Agrees to $643M Settlement With Allianz Over Losses
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...
Arkansas Medical Supply Owner, CEO Indicted For Allegedly Conspiring to Defraud Workers’ Comp Insurers
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...
Fire That Killed Dozens of Animals at Arkansas Petting Zoo Under Investigation
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...
8th Circuit: Insurer Owes Nothing to Arkansas Man Who Lied on Proof of Loss Statement
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...
People Moves: Madigan Joins Alliant in Arkansas; BXS Adds Breaux in Texas
Feb 16 2022 // Alliant Adds James Madigan as Senior Vice President Within Employee Benefits Group Alliant has added James “Jimmy” Madigan as senior vice president within its employee benefits group. Based in Fayetteville,...
Arkansas Judge Dismisses Duggar Sister’s Suit Over Records’ Release
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...
Arkansas Lawmakers Clear Way For Agencies to Enforce Vaccine Requirement
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...
