Business Insurance in Arkansas

Insurance Regulator

Arkansas Insurance Department

The Arkansas Insurance Department licenses resident and nonresident producers and business entities, accepts insurance complaints, and provides links to company and producer license searches. It operates as a division of the Arkansas Department of Commerce. ^1,2,6,3

• Regulator website
• License lookup
• File a complaint
• Phone: (800) 852-5494

Surplus-Lines Tax and Stamping Office

Reported tax rate: 4% when Arkansas is the insured's home state Arkansas's broker filing instructions set a 4% surplus-lines tax. Federal law assigns nonadmitted-insurance regulation and tax to the insured’s home state; for a multistate policy, ask your broker to show the home state and the premium allocation used for the Arkansas filing. Arkansas law requires the contract to disclose that the state's property-and-casualty guaranty protection does not apply. ^4,5,7

Coverage Guides

• General Liability Insurance in Arkansas

  Arkansas compares fault in personal-injury, wrongful-death, and property-injury claims, with a specific statutory carve-out for trafficking-victim actions.

• Directors and Officers (D&O) Insurance in Arkansas

  Compare Arkansas business-corporation charter and indemnification limits with the people and entities on your D&O quote.

• Technology E&O in Arkansas

  Arkansas requires individually proved, reliance-caused financial loss for a private deceptive-trade claim, so separate alleged misrepresentation from the buyer’s documented loss.

• Cyber Liability Insurance in Arkansas

  Arkansas ties its over-1,000 Attorney General filing clause to a data maintainer and requires five-year breach records.

• Media Liability Coverage in Arkansas

  Arkansas gives one year for slander and slander causing special damages under § 16-56-104. Arkansas legislative materials also describe truth and admissible mitigating circums

• Employment practices liability in Arkansas

  Arkansas’s nine-employee threshold, hairstyle protections, and direct-action process shape the claims and deadlines to review in an EPLI quote.

• Fiduciary Liability Insurance in Arkansas

  Review Arkansas retirement-program and payroll duties alongside the employer’s plan-sponsor responsibilities.

• Arkansas Hired and Non-Owned Auto Coverage

  What Arkansas’s two-part vehicle and operator insurance requirement means for business driving.

• Professional Liability (E&O) Insurance in Arkansas

  See Arkansas’s current home-inspector E&O minimum, cancellation notice rule, and report-based claim deadline.

• Workers’ Compensation Insurance in Arkansas

  Compare Arkansas’s general, building-work, and subcontracting thresholds before classifying a small crew as exempt.

• Arkansas BOP insurance: price severe-storm and flood gaps separately

  Compare Arkansas BOP property, liability and business-income terms with recent tornado, hail and flood exposure.

• Arkansas umbrella and excess liability: verify the state-contract layer and sub chain

  For contractors weighing an Arkansas Building Authority contract, hired autos, or subcontracted work.

• Medical malpractice insurance in Arkansas

  Arkansas malpractice coverage decisions through expert qualification, damages treatment, and supervised physician scope.

• Representations and Warranties Insurance in Arkansas

  Check Arkansas contract claim deadlines against negotiated representation survival, policy notice dates, and any home-state surplus-lines tax.

• Kidnap and Ransom Insurance in Arkansas

  See how Arkansas's surplus-lines rules, disclosures, and placement options affect a business buying kidnap and ransom coverage.

• Arkansas Crime Insurance Guide

  Arkansas separates money transmitters’ surety obligations from its self-insured fidelity program for participating public entities; check which program and loss duties apply to your organization.

• Commercial Auto Insurance in Arkansas

  Check Arkansas’s carrier cargo filing, three class-specific hazmat schedules, and federal minimums for covered interstate operations.

• Cargo and Transit Insurance in Arkansas

  Check Arkansas's posted carrier cargo filing and household-move liability terms, including a currentness warning on the official rule text.

• Liquor Liability in Arkansas

  Arkansas law recognizes narrow claims against retailers for knowing or reasonably foreseeable sales to minors or clearly intoxicated buyers, with a separate rule for social hosts.

• Key Person Insurance in Arkansas

  Learn how Arkansas insurable-interest rules, employee consent, and life guaranty limits affect a business-owned key person policy.

• Commercial Property Insurance in Arkansas

  Arkansas’s 2025 state disaster-recovery plan identifies hail, straight-line wind and lightning among severe-storm hazards affecting structures statewide; it records 359 hailstorms in Benton County from 1956–2021.

• Arkansas garage liability for motor vehicle dealers

  Review Arkansas used-dealer bond and inventory liability filing requirements before opening or renewing a dealership.

• Surety Bonds for Arkansas Public Construction

  Arkansas contractors should separate the public-works bid bond from the statutory payment bond.

• Arkansas Builders Risk Insurance

  For Arkansas state-property projects, distinguish Building Authority floodplain review from policy terms.

• Equipment Breakdown Insurance in Arkansas

  Arkansas requires an inspection certificate before a new or reinstalled boiler or unfired pressure vessel operates; its rules also set inspection intervals and require prompt repor

• Arkansas Management Liability Insurance

  Compare Arkansas employment-law exposure and company indemnification duties with D&O and EPL policy terms.

• Product Recall Insurance in Arkansas

  Arkansas food rules connect coded lots and safe disposition to recall logistics; compare tracing, segregation, and reconditioning terms.

• Arkansas Fidelity Bond Program for Public Entities

  Arkansas public entities should confirm program participation, audit eligibility, the per-occurrence retention, and who may report a loss.

• Intellectual Property Insurance in Arkansas

  Learn how Arkansas law treats trade secrets and related intellectual-property claims, and what to ask before choosing coverage.

• Contract Frustration Insurance in Arkansas

  How Arkansas export services and insurance-placement rules shape a contract-frustration policy.

• Last-mile delivery insurance in Arkansas

  If paid to deliver property wholly within Arkansas, verify intrastate authority before comparing auto and cargo quotes; the state's rule distinguishes common-carrier cargo filings from liability.

• Venture Capital Asset Protection Insurance in Arkansas

  Check how Arkansas adviser rules and fund entity structure affect a venture capital manager’s insurance review.

• Digital asset business insurance in Arkansas

  Insurance questions for Arkansas virtual-currency kiosk operators and related transmission businesses.

• Telehealth Insurance in Arkansas

  Arkansas ties telemedicine to patient location, an Arkansas professional relationship, and board-specific rules, including limits on group therapy for minors.

• Generative AI liability insurance in Arkansas

  Arkansas expressly addresses AI-generated likeness, commercial use, model and output ownership, and sexual deepfakes; ask about each alleged right and your role.

• Employee Health Benefits in Arkansas

  State-specific enrollment and continuation rules help employers in Arkansas compare group plans and employee transitions.

• Trucking Insurance in Arkansas

  Check when Arkansas for-hire intrastate carriers need ARDOT authority and the separate liability and cargo filings for covered carrier classes.

Sources

1. Arkansas Insurance Department. Arkansas Insurance Department; Official agency homepage. Accessed 2026-09-28.
2. Licensing. Arkansas Insurance Department; Licensing Division guidance and state-based systems lookup for Arkansas agent and agency licensees. Accessed 2026-09-28.
3. File A Complaint. Arkansas Insurance Department; Online complaint filing for insurance providers, including agents and companies. Accessed 2026-09-28.
4. Surplus Lines Brokers Filing. Arkansas Insurance Department; Current broker filing instructions state that 4% broker tax must be remitted. Accessed 2026-09-28.
5. 23 CAR § 201-104: Endorsement of contract. Arkansas Code of Rules; Required surplus-lines contract disclosure: no Arkansas P&C Guaranty Act protection and 4% tax collected from insured. Accessed 2026-09-28.
6. Property and Casualty Insurers. Arkansas Insurance Department; Company Search verifies whether an insurer is licensed in Arkansas. Accessed 2026-09-28.
7. 15 U.S.C. § 8202: Regulation of nonadmitted insurance by insured's home State. U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Law Revision Counsel; § 8202(a): nonadmitted placement is subject solely to insured's home-State requirements, except as otherwise provided; § 8201 addresses exclusive home-State tax authority. Accessed 2026-09-28.
8. Licenses. At-Bay; Current producer introduction and state table; At-Bay Insurance Services LLC; P&C and surplus-lines identifiers. Accessed 2026-09-21.
9. Licenses and Carriers. Coalition; Licenses and Carriers, re-read 22 September 2026: Insurance Licenses table for Coalition Insurance Solutions, Inc., national producer number 18419475, with producer and surplus-lines numbers for all 50 states and DC including California 0L76155, Georgia 196479, Texas 2199630 and 2205589, Pennsylvania 815731 and 817452, Colorado 539028 and Wisconsin 3000108852. Insurance Carriers table naming, with NAIC numbers, Allianz Underwriters Insurance Company 36420, Arch Specialty Insurance Company 21199, Ascot Specialty Insurance Company 45055, Ascot Insurance Company 23752, Aspen Specialty Insurance Company 10717, Chaucer Insurance Company DAC, Coalition Insurance Company 29530, Fireman's Fund Indemnity Corporation 11380, Fortegra Specialty Insurance Company 16823, Lloyd's of London, MSIG Specialty Insurance USA Inc. 34886, MS Transverse Specialty Insurance Company 41807, Steadfast Insurance Company 26387, Vantage Risk Specialty Insurance Company 16275 and Zurich American Insurance Company 16535. Accessed 2026-09-22.
10. Insurance Producer Licenses. Corgi Insurance; Current complete Insurance Producer Licenses table for Corgi Insurance Services, Inc.; 50 rows covering 49 states and DC (DC 3003091619); no New Mexico row; no NPN or as-of date shown. Accessed 2026-09-28.
11. About Hiscox US Insurance. Hiscox; Hiscox Insurance Company Inc. NAIC 10200 as Chicago, IL domiciled insurer admitted or licensed in all 50 states and D.C.; Hiscox Inc. as general agent and Lloyd’s coverholder for Syndicates 33 and 3624; surplus-lines placements through licensed surplus-lines brokers; A.M. Best rating statement. Accessed 2026-09-16.
12. Licenses. ERGO NEXT Insurance; Current entity-by-state license table reopened 28 September 2026: 50 rows under Next First Insurance Agency, Inc., including Washington, DC; New York rows instead list Next Insurance Services PC-1423070 and AP Intego BR-1198885. Accessed 2026-09-28.
13. Insurance Licenses by State. TechInsurance; Current state table; identifies TechInsurance as a division of Specialty Program Group LLC d/b/a SPG Insurance Solutions; lists DC 3000041536 and labels Rhode Island “Individual licenses,” without an agency license number. Accessed 2026-09-28.
14. Licenses. Vouch; Effective 16 January 2025: Vouch Specialty Insurance Services, LLC, NPN 19926463; P&C table (50 states and DC); surplus-lines table includes Idaho 870820; footnote says Georgia and Idaho do not issue agency-level surplus-lines licenses; Idaho retained as producer-only due to conflict. Accessed 2026-09-15.