Ohio’s Feb. 11-12 windstorm caused at least $88.9 million in damages, based on preliminary insured loss estimates from the Ohio Insurance Institute (OII), an insurance industry trade group. Widespread losses were reported by a number of Ohio insurers. Unseasonably warm …
Arkansas-based independent insurance agency Stephens Insurance LLC has added eight insurance professionals to its commercial insurance services team in Little Rock. The eight-member team hails from Regions Insurance in Little Rock. In Stephens Insurance’s Risk Management Division, Senior Vice Presidents …
Tools to Intervene “The Texas insurance companies remain well-capitalized. … There has been no bankruptcy filing by the parent company. In the event of any changes in the status of the parent company, our state laws provide us with tools …
A federal appeals court ruled that three Greene County, Ark., jailers are not immune from a lawsuit alleging they were deliberately indifferent toward an inmate who died from a heart attack. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. …
Impact on Insurance Industry May be Minimal, Experts Say The $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress looms as the largest mountain on the country’s newly changed economic landscape. But despite hope that the stimulus bill will jump-start spending, some …
$500 Million The financial toll from the January 2009 ice storm in north Arkansas is estimated at $500 million, with most of the cost for restoring electric utilities, the Associated Press reported. Three major utilities say they will spend around …
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Tears rolled down Arkansas State Sen. Jimmy Jeffress’ face after a House of Representatives committee voted without dissent to put in place new restrictions for teen drivers. “I appreciate it, and I think when you lay your head on your …
An attorney for Zach Scruggs, who along with his once-powerful lawyer father was convicted on a charge related to a judicial bribery conspiracy, says his client was not late reporting to a halfway house in Tupelo. Cal Mayo of Oxford, …
Lawmakers in Arkansas’ General Assembly approved a bill that will stiffen the state’s seatbelt law and the House of Representatives has passed a measure extending the amount of time a judge can consider previous DWI convictions in setting a drunk …
