Attorneys Disqualified in Fairfield Bay Case 
by Arkansas Business Staff – 2 days ago
If you recall, members of a property owners' association raised accusations in a lawsuit of self-dealing by a former board president.
If you recall, members of a property owners' association raised accusations in a lawsuit of self-dealing by a former board president.
Since January, four lawsuits have been filed against both Howard Memorial Hospital of Nashville and the Mena Regional Health System following cyberattacks.
A bill to end affirmative action in education hiring and outlaw state goals for steering procurement contracts to minority- and women-owned businesses in Arkansas narrowly passed in the Senate before stalling in the House.
Summit had previously agreed that the state regulatory body was the proper venue to hear grievances against the company. read more >
The division of ArcBest voluntarily disclosed to the EPA that it had failed to obtain industrial stormwater permit coverage at multiple facilities. read more >
Tyson Foods and other poultry companies were ordered to come up with a plan to clean a watershed polluted by chicken litter. read more >
Honarmand is an electrical engineer. read more >
A proposal that would have shielded decision-making by elected officials appears dead. For now. read more >
Bill 396, the Social Media Safety Act, would compel social media companies to use a third-party firm to verify ages via a driver's license or other form of identification. read more >
An Arkansas woman received a $2.5 million judgment last month as a result of injuries from surgery she probably didn't need. read more >
Arkansas Supreme Court justices reversed a lower court's ruling that had blocked the state from using the funds for the $1 billion overhaul of the I-30 corridor. read more >
The proposal is among dozens of bills proposed this year targeting transgender people, who have also faced increasingly hostile rhetoric at statehouses. read more >
Legal experts have said the change could close access to gender-affirming care for children by making it nearly impossible for providers to get malpractice insurance. read more >
The restraining order also prevents Summit from assessing late fees on customers. read more >
Bruce Murphy, CEO of Arkansas Heart Hospital of Little Rock, won the Business Executive of the Year Award, and Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty was honored for a lifetime of leadership in business and government at the 35th Arkansas Business of the Year Awards. read more >
Republican state Sen. Bryan King and the League of Women Voters of Arkansas file a lawsuit challenging a new Arkansas measure that makes it harder to get initiatives on the ballot. read more >
The Arkansas House voted last Thursday to pass the legislation cutting utility credits to solar power-generating customers basically in half. read more >
Eliminating a work permit requirement for Arkansas children under 16 is “a solution looking for a problem.” read more >
Last month, Chief U.S. District Judge Susan O. Hickey approved the settlement that called for Rod's Pizza to pay the IRS $600,558 for back taxes. read more >
The $22.8 billion-asset lender sued 17 ex-Happy employees who left last year and allegedly took confidential information on their way out the door to join American State Bank of Arp, Texas. read more >
Too often those assets go unprotected. As companies prepare to develop and commercialize a product or idea, it's important that they understand what is needed to strategically protect their assets. read more >
The governor's office said she backs the bill, which would make it easier to sue doctors who provide gender-affirming treatment to minors. read more >
The bill raises the number of counties where a minimum number of signatures from registered voters must be submitted from 15 to 50. read more >
The legislation goes even further than a North Carolina bathroom law that was enacted in 2016. read more >
The amended bill will essentially halve the credit that utilities pay to customers — both residential and commercial — who generate their own power. read more >
Several of the plaintiffs are the spouses or children of Tyson workers who died after contracting COVID. read more >
The drugstore chain says it will not start selling an abortion pill in 20 states that had warned of legal consequences if it did so. read more >
From the Western District of Arkansas, a cautionary tale about income taxes and making a bad situation much, much worse. read more >
The Trumann School District sued Ace Signs of Arkansas LLC last year over allegations that the district paid more than $600,000 for a scoreboard that it says never worked through a single football season. read more >
Their practices include products liability defense, insurance defense and general commercial litigation. read more >
The bill, inspired by research from a conservative think tank in Florida, would eliminate a work permit requirement for Arkansas kids under the age of 16. read more >
Crass, who led Huckabee's transition team following her election in November, replaces Charles "Cliff" Gibson on the UA board. read more >
Arkansas led a coalition of states in the lawsuit against MoneyGram International. read more >