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My wife is 72, got hit in Fort Smith, and this "steady income" deal feels off

A structured settlement can protect a retired person on fixed income, but in Fort Smith the real fight is often over who gets paid out of the case before your household sees a dime.

ARTICLE by Bobby Clanton

Arkansas Settlement Liens After a Truck Crash

If you got hurt in an Arkansas crash and everybody wants a piece of the settlement, the money usually does not go straight into your pocket and the order matters.

ARTICLE by Marcus Jefferson

so the health insurance company can just take my whole Uber crash settlement in Springdale after i got hit at the intersection?

An Uber passenger in Springdale got hurt in a right-turn crash, and now the real fight is over whether the health insurer can swallow the settlement.

ARTICLE by Bobby Clanton

structured settlement

You just got a letter that says part of your injury case may be paid through a structured settlement, and the worst mistake people make is treating it like a regular lump-sum...

A friend says the first offer after a Springdale snow crash is fair - is that bullshit?

The insurer wants this wrapped up fast, but a quick check can turn into a bad deal if your neck, back, or head injury gets worse after a winter crash.

ARTICLE by Cheryl Pryor

Second wreck in a year, and now the truck insurer says one missed form wipes out everything

A Springdale electrician with no health insurance after a layoff gets hit by a commercial truck, then the insurer buries the claim under technical demands and a denial.

ARTICLE by Rhonda Whitfield

Your child seemed fine in Conway traffic - that fast settlement can wreck the next year

A quick check at the ER is not the same thing as knowing what your child's injuries will look like two weeks from now, especially if the other driver has no insurance or a junk policy.

ARTICLE by Dale Honeycutt

passenger in a Little Rock pileup and now an old MRI is wrecking the claim

A hurt passenger in a near-zero-visibility wreck can usually claim against more than one driver's insurance in Arkansas, and an old MRI does not let insurers pretend the crash changed nothing.

ARTICLE by Marcus Jefferson

Your cousin says hold out, the hospital wants paid, and the crash injury showed up late

A Rogers business owner got T-boned by a left-turn driver, seemed mostly okay at first, then the injury blew up later and now a hospital lien is swallowing the claim.

ARTICLE by Hector Salinas

Insurance flat-out denied your Jonesboro pileup claim? That usually means a blame fight is coming

A straight answer on why Arkansas insurers deny chain-reaction crash claims, what "sudden braking" turns into in a blame fight, and what matters if you were hit in a Jonesboro highway pileup.

ARTICLE by Rhonda Whitfield

Jonesboro crash on I-555 and you just learned Medicare wants its cut first

An older crash victim in Jonesboro is dealing with a broke uninsured delivery driver, Medicare repayment, and the ugly timing problem that can drain a settlement fast.

ARTICLE by Bobby Clanton

premises liability

Can a property owner be held responsible if someone gets hurt on their property? Yes. Premises liability is the rule that owners, landlords, businesses, and sometimes people in...

superseding cause

A superseding cause is a later event that breaks the chain between someone's original mistake and the final injury, shifting legal responsibility because the later event became...

respondeat superior

A rule of vicarious liability makes an employer legally responsible for harm caused by an employee who was acting within the scope of employment when the act occurred. The...

attractive nuisance

Think of a half-finished treehouse, an unlocked excavator, or a pond that looks like a perfect place to play. Kids do not see legal warnings; they see something fun, shiny,...

Insurance Coverage After an Uber Driver Crash in Arkansas

When an Arkansas Uber or Lyft crash happens mid-trip, the fight is usually over which policy was active and who can duck responsibility first.

ARTICLE by Bobby Clanton

proximate cause

A legally close enough link between someone's conduct and an injury, such that the law will treat that conduct as a cause of the harm. Put more plainly, not every event in the...

comparative negligence

Miss this idea after a crash or worksite injury, and a claim that looks solid can shrink fast - or disappear entirely. Comparative negligence is the rule courts and insurance...

contributory negligence

Did I do something that could reduce what I recover after an accident? That is the basic idea behind contributory negligence: a rule that looks at whether an injured person...

Why does everyone get my Fayetteville crash settlement before I do?

Not the way it often works in Missouri or Oklahoma, where people assume the check just gets cut and they sort bills out later. In Arkansas, that "your lawyer or insurer will...