Arkansas Personal Injury Case Law
Please find, below, selected case laws decided by Supreme Court of Arkansas or Court of Appeals of Arkansas where the terms personal injury or related terms have been mentioned. These cases are not necessarily personal injury and may include cases where the facts or court decision merely mentions personal injury related legal terms. You are not to rely on these cases as legal advice nor should you rely on them for accuracy. Please see Terms of Service.
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ARTHUR v. ZEARLEY - 3/25/1999
This is the second appeal in this medical malpractice case. The appellants challenge the trial court's denial of their motion for a directed verdict and they contest certain evidentiary rulings by the trial court. They also contend...
SCHUMACHER v. SCHUMACHER - 3/17/1999
David Donald Schumacher, appellant/cross-appellee (hereinafter appellant), appeals from a divorce decree entered by the Washington County Chancery Court contending that the court erred in its determination of the amount of alimony and...
MCDERMOTT v. MCDERMOTT - 3/11/1999
In this divorce case the central issue is whether an attorney's contingency-fee agreements entered into during marriage are marital property under Ark. Code Ann. § 9-12-315 (Repl. 1998). The appellant, Mr. Harry McDermott, contends the...
MCQUAY v. GUNTHARP - 3/11/1999
This is an outrage case involving allegations against a physician for sexually fondling six female patients. Appellants Cathy and Sam McQuay, Sue Beebe, Sharion Cantrell, Rachel Keech, Charman and Dennis Rowe, and Randy Thatch appeal...
MARTIN v. ARTHUR - 3/10/1999
In Adams v. Arthur, 333 Ark. 53, 969 S.W.2d 598 (1998), our state supreme court reviewed twelve medical malpractice cases regarding implantation of the product Orthoblock in cervical spine surgeries. Orthoblock is the trade name for a...
BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES v. PICKETT - 3/4/1999
This is an appeal from a decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission. It involves a single issue. That issue is whether the Commission's award of interest on incurred medical expenses paid by a claimant's health insurance carriers...
D.B. GRIFFEN WAREHOUSE - 3/4/1999
On October 23, 1991, as an employee of Delta Hardware and Lumber Company (hereinafter "Delta") of Elaine, Arkansas, Charles Sanders, deceased, along with two other Delta employees, was assigned the task of spray-painting the metal roof...
S & S CONSTRUCTION - 3/3/1999
In this appeal from the Workers' Compensation Commission, appellants argue two points for reversal: (1) the Commission's finding that appellee Jerry Coplin ("Coplin") sustained a seventy-five percent wage-loss disability in addition to...
JOHNSON v. ARTHUR - 3/3/1999
In each of these two companion cases, the Garland County Circuit Court granted summary judgment in favor of appellees James Arthur, M.D., Allan Gocio, M.D., and Hot Springs Neurosurgery Clinic, P.A. Although the cases were not...
RAYNOR v. KYSER - 12/23/1998
Cleo and Jerome Raynor's complaint for medical negligence against Dr. James Kyser was dismissed on a motion for summary judgment based upon the trial court's findings that such a cause of action was barred by the statute of limitations...
CLARK v. PROGRESSIVE INS. CO. - 12/23/1998
This case arises out of a hit-and-run automobile accident in which a pedestrian, Otha Jordan, was struck and killed. The accident occurred at approximately 10:30 p.m. on July 21, 1995, when Reginald Moseby, who was fleeing from the...
SAPP v. PHELPHS TRUCKING - 12/16/1998
The Workers' Compensation Commission determined that appellant Frankie Sapp failed to prove entitlement to additional permanent partial disability benefits over and above a 5% physical impairment rating to his lumbar spine. On appeal,...
DOUGLAS v. HOLBERT - 12/3/1998
This is a probate case. The appellants contend that the trial court erred when it refused to set aside an order distributing the proceeds of a wrongful-death action brought on behalf of Lori Lantrip Holbert's statutory beneficiaries....
WILLIAMS v. PROSTAFF TEMPORARIES - 11/18/1998
Michelle Williams brings this appeal from the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission. The Commission found that Williams failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence: (1) that she was entitled to additional temporary total...
DODSON v. CHARTER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYS. - 11/12/1998
This is an appeal from a grant of a motion for a directed verdict in favor of appellee Charter Behavioral Health System of Northwest Arkansas, Inc. d/b/a Charter Vista Hospital (Charter Vista). Appellee/cross-appellant The Estate of...
KELLERMAN v. ZENO - 11/11/1998
This case involves a malicious prosecution action filed by appellee against appellants. The jury found in appellee's favor and awarded her $30,000 compensatory damages and $58,000 punitive damages. Appellants assert three points of...
CRAWFORD v. LEE COUNTY SCH. DIST. - 11/11/1998
Appellant, Bill Crawford d/b/a Crawford Builders, Inc., appeals from an order granting summary judgment to appellees.
On November 16, 1995, appellant signed a contract with James Culp, Superintendent of the Lee Country School...
STURGIS v. SKOKOS - 11/5/1998
This appeal concerns an action for attorney malpractice. The appellants, Andrew and Vanessia Sturgis, alleged that the appellees, Theodore C. Skokos and Randy Coleman, mishandled the Sturgises' defense and counterclaim in a Jefferson...
SECOND INJURY FUND v. STEPHENS - 6/24/1998
The Second Injury Fund appeals a decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission holding it liable for a 20 percent wage-loss disability awarded to Billy Stephens, a thirty-four-year-old welder with an eighth-grade education. We...
BARNETT v. NATURAL GAS PIPELINE CO. - 6/24/1998
David Barnett has appealed the decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission that denied his workers' compensation claim upon a finding that he failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that his back injury occurred as the...
COATS v. GARDNER - 6/18/1998
Appellants, Michael Coats, and his former wife, Rhonda Coats (now Wheeler), appeal an order of the Crawford County Circuit Court dismissing their negligence complaint against appellee Jerry Gardner. In dismissing the complaint, the...
STAPLETON v. M.D. LIMBAUGH CONSTR. CO. - 5/28/1998
The appellant, John Stapleton, Jr., filed a wrongful-death action against the appellee, M.D. Limbaugh Construction Co. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of Limbaugh Construction because it found that Stapleton's lawsuit...
COLLINS v. KELLER - 5/14/1998
Appellants Aaron and Diane Collins bring this appeal from the Crawford County Chancery Court's finding that they had breached their contract to purchase two unimproved lots from appellees, Burl and Carol Keller and Jeremy Investments,...
ROSS v. SOUTHERN FARM BUREAU CAS. INS. CO. - 5/14/1998
More than ninety days after entering an order of dismissal of a personal injury and property damage claim brought by Jerry L. Ross, the Trial Court entered orders purporting to modify its dismissal order. We hold that the Trial Court...
GOURLEY v. CROSSETT PUB. SCH. - 5/7/1998
Appellant Carolyn Gourley appeals the grant of summary judgment in favor of appellees, who are the Crossett Public Schools and former and current members of the District's Board of Directors (the District). The trial court ruled that...
UNIVERSITY OF ARK. MED. SCIENCES v. HART - 12/22/1997
This appeal challenges the Workers' Compensation Commission's determination that the appellee, Phyllis Hart, suffered a compensable injury. Appellants argue that the Commission's finding of a compensable injury is not supported by...
BODIFORD v. BESS - 12/11/1997
The appellant, Gary Bodiford, M.D., appeals an order dismissing, without prejudice, the medical malpractice complaint of appellee Ronald Keith Bess.
Dr. Bodiford's sole argument on appeal is that the dismissal should have been...
WRIGHT v. SHARMA - 12/4/1997
This is an appeal from a trial court's order dismissing a medical malpractice case as untimely filed. Appellant Patrick Wright and his wife, Elizabeth, brought an action against two cardiologists, Dr. Bimlendra Sharma and Dr. B.V. Pai,...
LOONEY v. BOLT - 11/13/1997
This case represents another of a series of cases involving a medical injury which resulted in death and the question as to whether the wrongful-death cause of action is controlled by the Medical Malpractice Act. Carol Chamberlain...
BROWN v. STATE - 11/13/1997
Appellant, Damien Deshun Brown, brings this interlocutory appeal of the trial court's order denying his motion to transfer the charges against him to juvenile court. Because the trial court's decision to retain jurisdiction of this...
WILLIAMS v. ST. VINCENT INFIRMARY - 11/5/1997
Cathy Williams has appealed the decision by the Workers' Compensation Commission that denied her claim for permanent disability benefits above the anatomical impairment that she sustained following a July 12, 1990, compensable back...
SEECO - 10/30/1997
Appellants SEECO, Inc. (SEECO), and Arkansas Western Gas Company (AWG) are wholly owned subsidiaries of appellant Southwestern Electric Company (Southwestern). Appellees Allen Hales, et al. (the royalty owners), are lessors under...
PRIEST v. UNITED PARCEL SERV. - 9/17/1997
The appellant, Rebekah Priest, challenges the Workers' Compensation Commission's determination that she sustained a 5% impairment to the body as a whole. This rating is based upon an independent medical evaluation by Dr. Jim Moore. The...
MORRILTON MANOR v. BRIMMAGE - 9/3/1997
Morrilton Manor, a nursing home, appeals a decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission that held that appellee had sustained a work-related back injury on June 6, 1995, and was entitled to medical benefits, temporary total...
SEXTON LAW FIRM - 6/30/1997
Appellants Sexton Law Firm, P.A., and Sam Sexton, Jr. (Sexton), appeal a judgment in favor of appellee Phillip J. Milligan on Sexton's claim of breach of contract, claiming error by the trial court in excluding certain evidence. Sexton...
POLK v. STATE - 6/23/1997
Appellant Allen Polk was charged as a habitual offender with (1) being a felon in possession of a firearm under Ark. Code Ann. § 5-73-103(a)(1) (Supp. 1995), and with two class C misdemeanors, (2) disorderly conduct, and (3)...
WILES v. WEBB - 6/16/1997
This case involves litigation for wrongful death and personal injury arising out of a vehicular accident. Verdict was rendered in favor of the appellee, Eddie Earl Webb. The appellants raise three points for reversal: (1) the trial...
MCGUIRE v. SMITH - 6/11/1997
Appellants Lavenia and Roderick McGuire, mother and son, appeal the order of the probate court denying their motion to set aside the court's order approving settlement of a wrongful-death claim and authorizing
attorney's fees...
MATSON - 6/2/1997
Lamb & Associates Packaging, Inc., and Jerry Don Lamb (referred to collectively as Lamb) entered an agreement with Matson, Inc. (Matson), pursuant to which Matson constructed a commercial building for Lamb in exchange for $789,543....
TB OF BLYTHEVILLE v. LITTLE ROCK SIGN & EMBLEM - 6/2/1997
This appeal involves an action brought by TB of Blytheville, Inc. (Taco Bell), seeking damages against Little Rock Sign & Emblem (LR Sign) for two allegedly defective signs sold by LR Sign. Taco Bell initiated this action under the...
COX v. CFSI TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT - 5/28/1997
This is an appeal from the Workers' Compensation Commission's order affirming and adopting the administrative law judge's decision. The ALJ found that appellant failed to establish that he had sustained a compensable injury supported...
PUGH v. GRIGGS - 3/17/1997
This is an appeal from the order of the Union County Circuit Court granting summary judgment on the issue of attorney malpractice to Appellees Ronald L. Griggs and Stephen R. Crane and denying summary judgment on the issue of liability...
CHERRY v. TANDA - 3/17/1997
Howard Cherry, as administrator of David H. Cherry's estate, appeals the dismissal of his wrongful death action against the decedent's former employer,
Tanda, Inc., and the employer's insurance carrier, Transcontinental...
ELLIOTT v. BOONE COUNTY INDEP. LIVING - 3/5/1997
The appellant, Genevieve Elliott, appeals from an order staying the proceedings on her wrongful-death complaint against appellee, Boone County Independent Living, Inc., until appellant paid appellee's costs and attorney's fees in...
WOODLINE MOTOR FREIGHT v. TROUTMAN OIL CO. - 3/3/1997
The sole issue presented in this negligence case is whether the trial court erred in awarding prejudgment interest on the property damages awarded to appellees Troutman Oil Company, Inc., and Jerry Crosland, d/b/a Jerry's One Stop. The...
NOBLES v. CASEBIER - 3/3/1997
This is a personal injury case arising out of an automobile accident on January 11, 1994. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the appellee, Pati
Casebier. Appellant James Nobles raises one issue on appeal. He contends that...
VANDERPOOL v. FIDELITY & CAS. & INS. CO. - 2/24/1997
This is a second appeal following an appeal previously decided by this court, Vanderpool v. Fidelity & Casualty Ins. Co., 322 Ark. 308, 908 S.W.2d 653 (1995). Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 1-2(a)(11). The action arose after appellant Curtis F....
MAYS v. NEAL - 2/17/1997
Appellant Richard L. Mays brings this appeal from the appellee Supreme Court Professional Conduct Committee's reprimand sanction, having found Mays violated Rules 1.4(b) and 5.5(b) of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Rule...
SMITH v. SHELTER MUT. INS. CO. - 2/10/1997
This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered in favor of appellee Shelter Mutual Insurance Company upholding a clause in an automobile liability insurance policy that excluded coverage to the minor son of the insured. The sole...
LARIMORE v. STATE - 2/10/1997
Petitioner Gregory R. Larimore was convicted in 1990 of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, June Larimore. We reversed that conviction, and he was again convicted in 1993 upon retrial. We affirmed the second conviction, and...
SHACKELFORD v. PATTERSON - 2/3/1997
This appeal is from an order of summary judgment in a wrongful-death and survival action brought by appellant Juanita Duke Shackelford, administratrix of the estate of James Anthony Shackelford (James), against appellees Carrick H. and...
COLLINS v. HINTON - 2/3/1997
Appellant Bryan Hank Collins appeals the jury's verdict awarding damages of $150,000 to Appellee Florida Hinton from the St. Francis County Circuit Court. Because this case involves a question concerning the law of torts, this court...
WINCHEL v. CRAIG - 12/23/1996
Appellants Jesse and Verda Winchel appeal from a judgment entered against them and Winchel Enterprises, Inc., jointly and severally, in the amount of $19,250, plus costs. The damages were assessed for an injury sustained by the...
TAYLOR v. GILL - 12/23/1996
Appellants Rick Taylor and Joyce Taylor appeal from a $40,000 judgment entered against them relating to a lawnmower injury sustained by appellee Jackie Gill. The Taylors raise several arguments for reversal, one of which is the lack of...
JEFFCOAT v. SECOND INJURY FUND - 12/18/1996
The appellant, Harold M. Jeffcoat, appeals from a decision of the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission apportioning liability for his compensable injury between his employer, B.C. Keathley Construction, and the Second Injury Fund....
CHALMERS v. TOYOTA MOTOR SALES - 12/16/1996
The appellants filed suit against the appellees for breach of contract, breach of implied contractual covenants of good faith and fair dealing, fraud, interference of contract, violation of the Arkansas Unfair Practices Act, and...
AVERY v. WARD - 12/16/1996
The appellants, Richard Avery and Carroll Truck Lines, appeal from a judgment against them in the amount of $100,000. They advance four bases for reversal: (1) the trial court erred in denying their motion for directed verdict because...
BROWN v. FINNEY - 11/22/1996
Appellant Steven A. Brown appeals the judgment of the Sharp County Circuit Court granting summary judgment to Appellee Leonard S. Finney Jr. on Appellant's complaint that Appellee was negligent in his operation of a vehicle that...
PROPST v. MCNEILL - 11/18/1996
This case involves an issue concerning landlord-tenant liability. Appellant James F. Propst entered into a lease with appellee Walnut Ridge Airport Commission and that lease set out the terms under which Propst stored his plane, a...
NOLAND v. NOLAND - 11/18/1996
This appeal is from a divorce case between appellant William Noland and appellee Olivia Noland, but the sole issue is whether the chancery judge erred in denying William's motion for the chancellor to recuse. We affirm the chancery...
ST. JOSEPH'S REGIONAL HEALTH CTR. v. MUNOS - 11/18/1996
Sisters of Mercy Health System, St. Louis, Inc. ("Sisters"), is a Missouri corporation that operates twelve hospitals, one of which is St. Joseph's Regional Health Center ("St. Joseph's") in Hot Springs. St. Joseph's is described as a...
BRYANT v. ARKANSAS PUB. SER. COMM'N - 11/6/1996
This appeal is brought by the Attorney General of the State of Arkansas from Orders No. 52, 56, 61, 62, 63, and 64 issued by the Arkansas Public Service Commission in Docket #92-260U and results from the Commission's refusal to compel...
PASTCHOL v. ST. PAUL FIRE & MARINE INS. - 9/30/1996
Appellant, Lorine Pastchol, appeals the order of the Columbia County Circuit Court granting summary judgment to appellees, St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Scott McMahen, Dan Bocan, P. Clark, K. Whitehead, and R....
EQUITY FIRE & CASUALTY INS. v. COLEMAN - 9/30/1996
Mary Odean Coleman was involved in an automobile collision with a car driven by Richard Feagin. The car Mr. Feagin was driving was owned by Velva Crase, an Oklahoma resident, who had loaned it to her son, Billy Crase, who resided with...
TURNER v. STATE - 9/30/1996
Appellant Robert C. Turner files this appeal from his convictions of burglary and attempted rape and respective consecutive sentences of twenty-year terms. His sole point for reversal is that the trial court should have granted him a...
HUGH CHALMERS CHEVROLET v. LANG - 9/25/1996
This appeal and cross-appeal arise from a lawsuit filed by Margaret Turner Lang, appellee/cross-appellant, against Hugh Chalmers Chevrolet-Cadillac-Toyota, Inc., appellant, and General Motors Corporation, cross-appellee. The case was...
GANSKY v. HI-TECH ENG'G - 6/24/1996
This matter comes to us on review of a decision by the Court of Appeals in which that court was divided by a vote of three to three. Gansky v. Hi-Tech Eng'g, 52 Ark. App. 147, 916 S.W.2d 124 (1996). Because the vote in the Court of...
HAWKINS CONSTR. CO. v. MAXELL - 6/24/1996
This is a workers' compensation case. Richard Maxell's back was injured in the course of his employment with Hawkins Construction Company (Hawkins) in late 1992, but he continued to work until he again suffered a back injury in...
FARMLAND INS. CO. v. DUBOIS - 6/19/1996
This is an appeal from the Workers' Compensation Commission's order affirming and adopting the administrative law judge's decision. The ALJ found that appellee sustained a compensable back injury on March 12, 1994, and awarded...
FOXX v. AMERICAN TRANSP. - 6/19/1996
Appellant Harold Lee Foxx sustained a compensable back injury while working for appellee American Transportation in April 1993. American Transportation paid certain benefits, but controverted Mr. Foxx's claim that he had suffered a 5%...
SMITH v. GERBER PRODUCTS - 6/5/1996
Appellant Sharron Smith suffered a back injury while working for appellee Gerber Products on July 30, 1993. Gerber Products accepted the injury as compensable and covered related medical expenses. However, Gerber Products contested Ms....
EASTERLING v. WEEDMAN - 5/29/1996
Following a trial on May 25 and 26, 1994, in the Pulaski Circuit Court, Fifth Division, a jury returned verdicts upon written interrogatories that Mark Weedman, Sr., deceased, intended that his son Mark Weedman, Jr., be the beneficiary...
W.W.C. BINGO v. ZWIERZYNSKI - 5/22/1996
This is the second appeal in this workers' compensation case involving a claimant/appellee and an uninsured employer/appellant. In the first appeal the only issue was compensability. The Commission had held that appellee had sustained ...
HOWARD v. NORTHWEST ARKANSAS SURGICAL CLINIC P.A. - 5/13/1996
This is a medical malpractice case. Dorothy L. Howard sued Northwest Arkansas Surgical Clinic, P.A.
("the Clinic"), Robert Petrino, M.D., and Barbara A. Sandefur, M.D., seeking damages because a portion of a needle was...
DIXON TICONDEROGA CO. v. WINBURN TILE MFG. CO - 4/29/1996
Winburn Tile Manufacturing Company filed this lawsuit against Dixon Ticonderoga Company, alleging negligence, breach of express and implied warranty and deceit in the sale of products called saggers. A sagger is a type of open-top box...
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