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Ark. Code Ann. § 23-66-202

Purpose

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 74 Ark. App. 166 - Columbia Mutual Insurance v. Home Mutual Fire Insurance (2001)

Most recently applied in Marsha Moffitt v. State Farm Mutual Auto Ins Co (September 2021)

Acts 1959, No. 148, § 209; 1981, No. 809, § 5; A.S.A. 1947, § 66-3002.

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(1) The purpose of this subchapter is to regulate trade practices in the business of insurance in accordance with the intent of the United States Congress as expressed in Pub. L. No. 79-15 by defining, or providing for the determination of, all practices in this state which constitute unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive acts or practices and by prohibiting the trade practices so defined or determined.

(2) However, no provisions of this subchapter are intended to establish or extinguish a private right of action for a violation of any provision of this subchapter.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.