by Will Clark | Sep 20, 2019 | Criminal Law, insurance, Tort Litigation
What happens when a nightclub is sued by a patron who was accidentally injured while he was being forcibly removed from the nightclub? One would expect that an insurance company would enter the picture to pay for the legal defense of the nightclub and for any...
by Will Clark | Mar 16, 2017 | Tort Litigation
While it is true that one can insure just about anything, that does not mean that everything is insured. A man in Southeast Arkansas learned that lesson the hard way, after his auto insurance claim was denied following a gunshot injury that he received while driving...
by Will Clark | Dec 6, 2016 | Tort Litigation
It is well known that there has been a “cold war” for decades between Walmart and labor unions. Walmart and the labor unions have engaged in both symbolic battles as well as legal battles to support their respective positions. This conflict has risen to...
by Will Clark | Nov 25, 2014 | Tort Litigation
Arkansas’s rules of evidence and civil procedure attempt to balance the doctor-patient privilege with the attorney-client privilege. However, an Arkansas Supreme Court decision has found that a non-party doctor’s disclosure of patient information to his attorney may...
by Jack Butt | Jul 14, 2014 | Tort Litigation
Failing To Effectively Participate In Pretrial Discovery Can Lose Your Case, Regardless Of Its Merits. In civil litigation, there are detailed rules which allow both sides to make extensive inquiry of the other side’s information, documents, and knowledge of the...
by Jack Butt | Apr 14, 2014 | Tort Litigation
The recent case of Richardson vs. Union Pacific Railroad, 2011 Ark. App. 562, followed the developing Arkansas law that 1) proving the existence of known toxic substances brought into an area by the defendant, 2) which substances are known to cause sickness or death,...
