The purpose of this subchapter is to promote the public welfare by reducing the loss of life and fire damage to property caused by the crime of arson by requiring insurance companies to secure antiarson applications from applicants for new policies of property insurance containing information to control the incidence of arson fraud.
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-88-201
Purpose
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Noland v. Farmers Ins. Co., Inc. (1995)
Most recently applied in Shelter Mutual Insurance Company v. Edna Lyle Lovelace (February 2020)
Acts 1983, No. 359, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 66-5606.
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.