Latest Arkansas Headlines
All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Arkansas Sees Small Increase in WC Rates
Jul 14 2003 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens announced an overall loss increase of 1.8 percent in the State’s Workers’ Compensation voluntary insurance market. This small increase is the first for Arkansas in...
Pickens Urges Companies to Consider Tort Reform Act When Setting Rates
Jul 11 2003 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens announced the release and distribution of a Bulletin, which urges insurance companies to consider The Civil Justice Reform Act, Act 649 of 2003, when submitting rate filings...
ARK. GETS TOUGH ON ILLEGAL PLANS:
Jun 23 2003 // Cracking down on illegal benefits plans that have cropped up in his state, Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens revoked the licenses of four insurance agents who sold or were involved in the marketing of an...
Pickens Believes Competitive Market is Best Climate for Business
Jun 23 2003 // Mike Pickens Having served six years in his present office, Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens has had an opportunity to see a number of changes in his state over the years. Pickens recently sat down with...
State Farm Resumes Writing New Policies in Ark.
Jun 17 2003 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens announced that State Farm Fire and Casualty Insurance Company would immediately resume writing new homeowner’s policies in the State of Arkansas. The company returns to...
Arkansas Indicts Johnson on Fraud Charges
Jun 10 2003 // U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Bud Cummins and State Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens, announced a 20-count federal indictment has been handed down against Jeffrey Ray Johnson for his alleged role...
Arkansas Gets Tough on Illegal Plans
Jun 9 2003 // Cracking down on a number of illegal benefits plans that have cropped up in his state, Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens revoked the licenses of four insurance agents who sold or were involved in the marketing...
Alliance Argues Against Proposed Changes to Ark. Safety Rule
May 22 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers announced that one of its insurance safety experts told Arkansas officials that a proposed change to the way Arkansas regulates insurer safety programs will create additional costs with no...
Ark. Regulator Tapped for Presidential Appointment
May 14 2003 // Arkansas State Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens announced that President George W. Bush appointed the Insurance Department’s Deputy Commissioner John Hartnedy to the Department of Defense Retirement Board of...
Pickens Announces Credit Scoring Protections for Ark. Consumers
Apr 29 2003 // According to Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens, the enactment of a new law will give Arkansas insurance consumers stronger protections in the use of credit information and credit scoring when purchasing and...
ARK. SUSPENDS AGENTS FOR MEWAS
Apr 7 2003 // Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens of Arkansas said five insurance agents have had their licenses suspended for enrolling Arkansans in a health plan not authorized in his state. The unauthorized plan has left Arkansas...
TORT REFORM BILL OK’D IN ARK.
Apr 7 2003 // The American Insurance Association praised Arkansas Governor Huckabee for signing significant tort reform legislation passed in the state legislature. AIA said the bill will help “lower the cost of tort claims and...
Agents Suspended in Arkansas
Apr 1 2003 // Arkansas State Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens announced that licenses were suspended for five insurance agents who enrolled Arkansans in a health plan not authorized in the State of Arkansas. The unauthorized plan has...
Tort Reform Measure Signed in Arkansas
Mar 27 2003 // The American Insurance Association praised Arkansas Governor Huckabee for signing significant tort reform legislation passed through the state legislature. “The Arkansas Legislature has made great strides toward...
La.’s Deputy Commissioner Takes on Rating Board, Struggling Firm
Mar 24 2003 // According to Jim Donelon, Chief Deputy Commissioner of the Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI), the answer to the homeowners’ insurance crisis in Louisiana is to move to a file and use rating system, and to...
There’s Always the Weather
Mar 10 2003 // People who live in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana are rarely at a loss for words. But if they’re ever in need of an exciting topic to liven up a dinner party they can talk about the weather. After all,...
ATNIP PLEADS GUILTY IN ARK.
Mar 10 2003 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens announced that Gary Atnip, an alleged co-conspirator with Martin Frankel, entered a guilty plea to a felony charge of violating the maintenance of home office records law. The...
ARKANSAS LANDS CAPTIVE
Feb 24 2003 // American Management Corporation (AMC), an insurance agency in Conway, has formed Arkansas’s first captive insurer, AMC Re. Arkansas State Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens said the new company will reinsure risks...
Frankel Co-Conspirator Pleads Guilty in Ark. Court
Feb 21 2003 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens announced that a guilty plea to a felony charge of violating the maintenance of home office records law has been entered for Gary Atnip, an alleged co-conspirator with Martin...
Arkansas Lands First Captive Insurer
Feb 18 2003 // Arkansas State Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens announced that his state’s first captive insurer, AMC Re, has been formed by American Management Corporation (AMC), an insurance agency in Conway. The new company...
