Latest Arkansas Headlines
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Arkansas’ Sen. Rapert Named a NAMIC State Legislator of the Year for 2017
Sep 26 2017 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has named Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert as one of two State Legislators of the Year for 2017. Illinois state Sen. Bill Haine also was honored with the award. Rapert...
2 New Insurers Approved to Do Business in Arkansas
Sep 20 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has approved two new companies to begin conducting insurance business in his state. Kerr granted a Certificate of Authority to Security First Insurance Co. (SFIC) of Ormond Beach,...
Linhardt Named Regions Insurance’s State Exec for Arkansas, Texas
Sep 18 2017 // Regions Insurance, an affiliate of Regions Bank, has hired David Linhardt as state executive for Arkansas and Texas. As state executive, Linhardt will oversee Regions Insurance operations in the Little Rock, Fayetteville...
Arkansas Task Force: State Should Bar Dicamba Herbicide Next Year
Aug 27 2017 // An Arkansas task force has advised the state to bar sprayings after April 15 next year of agricultural herbicides containing the chemical dicamba, which has been linked to crop damage across the U.S. farm belt, a state...
How Herbicide Dicamba Was Approved Without Independent Testing: Reuters
Aug 9 2017 // As the U.S. growing season entered its peak this summer, farmers began posting startling pictures on social media: fields of beans, peach orchards and vegetable gardens withering away. The photographs served as early...
Arkansas Farmers Still Optimistic Despite Ravaging from Floods
Aug 4 2017 // While spring floods left many rice farmers with fewer acres of rice than they originally planned, they’re hopeful a rising market can offset at least some of the lost acreage. “We had 1,400 acres, and we were...
Arkansas Welcomes New Private Flood Insurer
Jul 24 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to Florida-based Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Company (HCPC) to offer private flood insurance in...
FBI Tracked Nearly 300K Cyberattacks in U.S. in 2016
Jul 24 2017 // The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) last year tracked nearly 300,000 cyberattacks in the United States and those attacks resulted in more than $1.6 billion in total losses. But apparently those numbers...
Fatal Arkansas Train Accident Prompts Hazard Rating Increase
Jul 21 2017 // The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department has increased the hazard rating for a train crossing after the recent deaths of a couple whose car was struck by a train. ATHD Railroad Crossing Coordinator Steve Weston...
Railroad Sued by Injured Former Employee after Arkansas Wreck
Jul 17 2017 // A railroad company is being sued by a former employee who says his injuries from a 2014 train wreck in northwest Arkansas were caused by poor and unsafe work conditions. The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that...
New Flood Insurance Company Approved in Arkansas
Jul 13 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to Florida-based Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Company (HCPC) to offer private flood insurance in Arkansas. In a press...
Nearly 1.9K Reports of Cybercrime in Arkansas in 2016: FBI
Jul 12 2017 // There were nearly 1,900 instances of internet crime in Arkansas last year, from nonpayment scams to cyberattacks on state agencies, according to the FBI. FBI officials said the state’s attacks are a small percentage...
3 New Arkansas Counties Added to Disaster Aid List
Jul 7 2017 // Officials say three more Arkansas counties have been added to the list of counties that are eligible for disaster unemployment assistance because of severe weather earlier this year. The Arkansas Department of Workforce...
Arkansas Commissioner Kerr Approves 3 New Insurers in State
Jul 7 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted Certificates of Authority to three out-of-state insurance companies to do business in Arkansas. The Arkansas Insurance Department reported that COPIC Insurance Company...
Apartments Damaged, Trees Downed by Spin-Up Tornado in Arkansas
Jul 5 2017 // No one was injured when a short-lived tornado swept through Jonesboro, damaging an apartment complex and downing trees and power lines in the northeast Arkansas city. The National Weather Service in Memphis, Tennessee,...
Guilty Plea in Arkansas U-Haul Rental Insurance Scam
Jun 30 2017 // A Jonesboro, Ark., woman has been sentenced to five years’ probation, court costs and restitution after pleading guilty to her role in a staged automobile accident in 2014 involving a U-Haul rental. Jennifer Haggins,...
Corps to Begin Repairing Holes in Arkansas Levees
Jun 28 2017 // U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials are expected to begin repairing nine sections of a levee along the Black River in northeast Arkansas that was damaged by floods last month. Emergency workers are making plans to cover...
Arkansas Insurance Agents Name State Auto Company of the Year
Jun 27 2017 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Arkansas (IIAAR) selected Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Companies to receive the group’s Company of the Year award. State Auto was presented with the award at the...
Arkansas’ Tyson Foods Installs Video, Bird Welfare Checks in Poultry Operations
Jun 22 2017 // Tyson Foods has installed video cameras in key areas of its poultry operations and will test new ways to slaughter birds — not in response to previous “gotcha” moments but under a corporate philosophy that...
Weight of Swollen Reservoir Blamed for Arkansas Earthquake Swarm
Jun 20 2017 // Earthquakes in northern Arkansas are being linked to the weight of extra water at a flood-swollen reservoir. Earthquake geologist David Johnston works with the Arkansas Geological Survey. He says the added weight of the...
