Allen Kerr Resigns as Arkansas Insurance Commissioner
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr announced Wednesday that he will resign, effective March 27, to pursue opportunities in the private sector. read more >
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr announced Wednesday that he will resign, effective March 27, to pursue opportunities in the private sector. read more >
Arkansas officials have approved an average rate increase of about 2% next year for the four companies providing coverage through the state's health insurance exchange. read more >
Arkansas officials say the four companies providing coverage through the state's insurance exchange under the federal health care overhaul law are seeking an average rate increase of about 2% for next year. read more >
Arkansas and 19 other Republican-led states are taking their shot at dismantling the Affordable Care Act, rekindling the anxieties of health care executives who fear thousands of Arkansans could lose insurance coverage. read more >
Arkansas has approved average rate increases ranging from 1 percent to 4.6 percent for plans offered through the insurance marketplace under the federal health care law. read more >
Berry Bishop, the failed insurance agent, under oath in bankruptcy proceedings, has described some of his borrowings from the Bank of Prescott over the past three or four years as loan fraud. read more >
The Bank of Prescott and Citizens Bank of Batesville filed civil suits Monday alleging frauds totaling $2.4 million by former insurance agent Berry Bishop and his agency, Alliance Insurance Group of Arkadelphia Inc. read more >
The Arkansas Insurance Department recently suspended the license of a West Memphis insurance agent for not handing over insurance records, sparking a legal battle. read more >
Bart Newman discovered irregularities and spent weeks working on a plan to rescue Alliance Insurance Group of Arkadelphia. Then he saw Arkansas Business' report that Alliance's license had been suspended. read more >
A prominent Arkadelphia insurance agent, Berry Bishop, had his insurance license suspended Tuesday morning in an emergency order alleging seven-figure bank fraud and conversion of premium to personal use. read more >
Joshua Eric Casada of Pine Bluff, who lost his license to sell insurance in Arkansas in December, was booked in to the Pulaski County jail Thursday on 22 felony counts. read more >
Allen Kerr of Little Rock, the state insurance commissioner, has been named chairman of the Market Regulation & Consumer Affairs Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in Kansas City, Missouri. read more >
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen W. Kerr has over three decades of experience in insurance and financial services. read more >
Health insurance companies operating on the state's individual health insurance marketplace are seeking rate increases of between 8 percent and 22 percent, the state Insurance Department says. read more >
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr is pushing for more companies to start captive insurance subsidiaries, which can write insurance only for its parent or related companies, and locate them in Arkansas. read more >
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has been named vice chairman of the Market Regulation & Consumer Affairs Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. read more >
The Affordable Care Act has been a mixture of good and bad news for Arkansas, but the state’s unique approach to expanding Medicaid has resulted in a different experience from that making national headlines. read more >
The proposed insurance rate increases for Arkansas' exchange and the announcement that the state's hybrid Medicaid expansion's enrollment has topped more than 300,000 may complicate the debate next year over the future of the expanded coverage. read more >
Arkansas Insurance Department spokesman Ryan James said the department asked Nabholz to run some numbers “for informational purposes.” No bids or proposals were sought and no payment made for the one-page estimate dated April 25. read more >
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