Jay Bradford

First Arkansas will keep its leadership and employees and operate as a division of Sunstar. read more >

The favorable treatment that Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr received from his predecessor, Jay Bradford, in a 2011 dispute with Farmers Insurance Group has been criticized in court documents by another former insurance commissioner, Mike Pickens. read more >

For more than 30 years, Allen Kerr was one of Farmers Insurance Group’s most productive agents in Arkansas. That changed on Halloween 2011, when Farmers, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, terminated its relationship with Kerr and his Allen W. Kerr Insurance Agency Inc. of Little Rock. read more >

A Saline County Circuit Court judge agreed last week with former Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford that Lloyd’s of London underwriters are approved to sell insurance in the state. read more >

Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford says Lloyd’s of London underwriters are approved to sell insurance in Arkansas. But a lawsuit filed last year keeps moving forward, and Bradford says he’s worried that it could create a crisis in the Arkansas insurance market. read more >

Arkansans who buy health insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace for 2015 should on pay about 2 percent less for premium than they did in 2014. read more >

Catholic Health Initiatives says its subsidiary, Collab Health, has entered a stock-purchase agreement to buy QualChoice Holdings Inc. of Little Rock. read more >

A bill that has occupied lawyers for a full decade might have been a mere blip in the state’s long legislative history had Nick Wilson, the powerful and ultimately disgraced state senator from Pocahontas, not been so eager to get to the horse races on one particular day in February 1995. read more >

Signups for insurance under the federal health care law are far below the state's targets, with more than 33,500 people enrolled in the marketplace as the deadline nears. read more >

Catholic Health Initiatives of Denver, the parent company of St. Vincent Health System of Little Rock, is in talks to buy some or all of QualChoice of Little Rock. read more >

Steve Standridge, who already faces 12 federal felony charges related to alleged bank fraud in the Eastern District of Arkansas, has pleaded not guilty to 23 additional federal felony counts. read more >

Arkansas lawmakers on Friday narrowly approved a $10.6 million grant to continue operating the insurance marketplace under the federal health overhaul, despite objections from some legislators over the law's rocky start. read more >

If anyone was unsure just how difficult of a balance Arkansas faces in trying to implement the federal health care overhaul, the rollout over the past week made it clear. After two elections and two legislative sessions that have been overshadowed by the 2010 law, the state is facing an identity crisis on how to move forward with it. read more >

On this week's "Arkansas Week," state Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford talks to Steve Barnes about Obamacare, Week One. Plus, the Arkansas Times' David Ramsey, independent journalist Rick Fahr and Lance Turner talk about the week that was. Includes video. read more >

Arkansas officials on Tuesday called the launch of the state's online marketplace for insurance under the federal health care law historic for the thousands of uninsured residents expected to sign up, though problems with the federal website delayed online enrollment for some. read more >

Jay Bradford has more than four decades of experience in the insurance industry, including 30 years as founder, chairman and former shareholder of First Arkansas Insurance Group of Pine Bluff, a statewide network of independent property and casualty agencies. He also served in the Arkansas Legislature for 24 years, where he was chosen both speaker pro tempore of the House and president pro tempore of the Senate. Bradford also served as chairman of the Public Health, Welfare & Labor Committee in both bodies. read more >

An insurance carrier that did business with disgraced insurance agent Steve Standridge of Mount Ida was recently fined $45,000 by state regulators. read more >

Ever since state Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford became the receiver for Cosmopolitan Life Insurance Co. in 2009, he’s been trying to recoup some of the thousands of dollars the Little Rock company lost as it spiraled into insolvency. read more >

The Arkansas Insurance Department recently yanked the licenses of a Van Buren title insurance agent and his agency over a number of faulty practices at his office. read more >

Like it or not, health care reform isn't going away. Arkansas should make the most of it. read more >