by Arkansas Business Editors 4/8/2013 12:00 am
Here's a date-by-date look at how Medicaid expansion perhaps came to Arkansas.
by Chris Bahn 4/8/2013 12:00 am
Gov. Mike Beebe signed into law on Thursday an act that allows employers to voluntarily give preference to veterans when hiring. HR managers are freed from concerns that by providing preference, they are violating hiring laws
by Arkansas Business Staff 4/8/2013 12:00 am
During Ray Montgomery's leadership of 24 years, White County Medical Center has acquired a local hospital, built a cancer center and undergone extensive facility improvements. Montgomery has served on the board of the American Hospital Association and now serves on the board of the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care.
by Mark Carter 4/5/2013 09:05 am
The Arkansas Senate last week gave its official blessing to the proposed $1.1 billion steel mill that Gov. Mike Beebe and state economic development officials want to see on the banks of the Mississippi River just outside Osceola.
by Gwen Moritz 4/3/2013 08:30 pm
A federal grand jury in Little Rock charged Lile with two counts of embezzlement associated with some $300,000 worth of personal expenses charged to his defunct former employer, Cosmopolitan Life Insurance Co.
by Andrew DeMillo, The Associated Press 4/3/2013 02:31 pm
A proposal to use federal dollars to purchase private insurance for low-income Arkansas residents won the approval of a state Senate committee Wednesday, as the idea gained favor among Republicans who have opposed Medicaid expansion.
by Andrew DeMillo, The Associated Press 4/2/2013 11:45 am
Gov. Mike Beebe's office says it has received a letter from the federal government expressing "conceptual support" for his plan to use Medicaid dollars to buy private health insurance for the state's poorer residents.
by Andrew DeMillo, The Associated Press 3/31/2013 06:32 pm
As Arkansas lawmakers approach what could be the final weeks of this year's session, it's becoming clearer that proposals to expand health insurance to low-income workers and to cut $100 million in taxes are colliding.
by Arkansas Business Staff 3/29/2013 11:36 am
As Arkansas Business prepares for the 20th anniversary of its annual 40 Under 40 feature, we are asking to hear from all past honorees in a special survey.
by Andrew DeMillo, The Associated Press 3/28/2013 09:52 am
The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce is backing a proposal to expand health insurance to thousands of low-income residents by purchasing private coverage with federal Medicaid funds.
by Mark Friedman 3/27/2013 03:57 pm
A study released Wednesday showed Arkansas' health care workers aren't going to rural areas of the state. The report found there was a 4 percent shortage in the state of primary care providers. There was a 38 percent oversupply of them in the central part of the state while there was a 33 percent shortage in southwest Arkansas.
by Mark Friedman 3/25/2013 12:00 am
The high court agreed with dozens of other corporations that have complained that Miller County Circuit Court is a legal backwater where friendly elected judges help prolific local class-action attorneys exploit a loophole in federal law to force giant settlements in cases whose legal merits are never even considered.
by Mark Friedman 3/25/2013 12:00 am
Defense attorneys involved in class-action cases in Miller County Circuit Court have called it a “judicial hellhole,” while defenders insist that the complaints are only designed to keep plaintiffs from receiving the evidence they have a right to inspect.
by Mark Friedman 3/25/2013 12:00 am
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel was one of the few state AGs who supported the plaintiffs' attorneys who used a perceived loophole in federal law to keep potential class-action lawsuits in state courts.
by Gwen Moritz 3/25/2013 12:00 am
This week Arkansas Business premieres a new list of the state's highest-paid nonprofit employees, which reveals that nonprofit hospital executives and physicians can be well-paid.
by Arkansas Business Staff 3/25/2013 12:00 am
Next month will see what's likely to be Arkansas' biggest PR contract pitch of the year — a shot at the “comprehensive,” $4.3 million outreach and education campaign to encourage uninsured Arkansans to sign up for health insurance under the federal health insurance exchange.
by Arkansas Business Staff 3/25/2013 12:00 am
A lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Arkansas, involves two Greenbrier families who claim their homes suffered damages from a 4.7 earthquake caused by drilling in the Fayetteville Shale Play.
by Arkansas Business Staff 3/25/2013 12:00 am
Tamika Edwards has been appointed to a three-year term on the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' Community Development Advisory Council.
by Lance Turner 3/21/2013 03:14 pm
J. Thomas May, chairman and CEO of Simmons First National Bank Corp. of Pine Bluff, made more than $1.1 million in compensation in 2012, according to the financial holding company's annual proxy, filed on Monday.
by Gwen Moritz 3/19/2013 09:39 am
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of an insurance company in a class-action case brought in Miller County. The decision throws a wrench into a business plan used with great success by the Texarkana law firm of Keil & Goodson.
Sine Die: Arkansas Lawmakers Formally End Legislative Session 
