The confidential settlement came two weeks before Gentry C. Wahlmeier was set to face a multiday civil trial.

The chamber’s plan seems to be working. Between 2019 and June 2023, child care slots in Independence County grew by 168%, helping to address an issue that had stifled economic growth in the area.

Part of the job will be lobbying the state’s Medicaid program and private insurers to pay for doulas’ services.

Bentonville attorney Nick Coleman thought there had to be an easier way to handle Social Security Disability Insurance claims for his clients. But when he couldn’t locate a technology that would comb through thousands of pages of a client’s medical records, he set out to build his own software.

Steve Merritt stands accused of enlisting friends and his brother in a nearly $10 million Ponzi-like scheme involving his agricultural and construction equipment dealership.

Hempstead County officials expect the sale of Wadley Regional Medical Center at Hope to be approved by a bankruptcy judge on Tuesday, putting the operation of the hospital in local control.

Legislators’ decision to give rural hospitals $60 million in COVID relief helped many hospitals survive, but some found the state’s application system to be cumbersome.

The Youth Empowerment Project Teen Center in west Little Rock is the first recovery program of its kind in Arkansas.

Just eight executives out of 88 on Arkansas Business’ list of public company executives exercised stock options. Performance-based awards have become the most popular compensation benefit used by most companies.

Attorney Josh Sanford of Little Rock won his latest round with U.S. District Court Judge Billy Roy Wilson in a long-running feud over allegations Sanford charges excessive and unearned fees.

The Health System, which features a 25-bed hospital, is able to keep more of its patients in its network thanks to using telemedicine for pulmonology, cardiology and infectious disease services, said James Magee, executive director of the system.

Michael Marsh started his certified registered nurse anesthetist staffing agency at his dining room table in 2019, but it quickly outgrew those quarters.

The messy legal battle between the daughters of the late Fort Smith businessman H.C. “Dude” Crain Jr. and their stepmother has a new chapter.

Campbell “is engaged in a systemic slipshod practice of law,” according to a June 4 lawsuit in Pulaski County Circuit Court.

A lawsuit between two former legal colleagues in Little Rock offers a look into the contentious issue of third-party litigation financing, in which investors provide money to attorneys and reap rewards when cases pay off.

The Lyon College School of Dental Medicine expects to see its first students in June 2025 and then watch them graduate three years later — a year earlier than most dental programs.

The Bentonville retailer claims the case brought by London Luxury, a supplier of nitrile gloves, was built on fraud and that the jury’s verdict was wrong.

The $750,000 study will go to the Little Rock Board of Directors for final approval.

Therapon Skin Health has sued Darla Smith, its general manager for seven years, for fraud and breach of contract for allegedly misappropriating funds.

The Batesville health care system was required to comply with certain restrictive covenants of its $32.5 million bond issued in 2020 to refinance debt.