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AR Code § 16-114-212 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 114 - Malpractice Actions|Subchapter 2 - Actions for Medical Injury|§ 16-114-212. Tolling of the statute of limitations

 (a) If a plaintiff serves written notice of intention to file an action for medical injury within thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations, the statute of limitations shall be tolled for ninety (90) days only if the following conditions are met:  (1) The written notice shall be served by certified mail, return receipt requested, upon the medical care provider alleged to have caused the medical injury;  (2) The written notice shall include the following:  (A) The plaintiff's full name, date of birth, present address, address at the time of treatment at issue, and Social Security number;  (B) The date or dates of the treatment in question and a summary of the alleged wrongful conduct; and  (C) The names and addresses of the known medical care providers relating to the alleged medical injury; and    (3) An authorization to release medical records signed by the plaintiff, which shall authorize the medical care provider alleged to be liable to obtain pertinent medical records, shall be attached to the notice.    (b) Failure to comply with any of the requirements set forth in subsection (a) of this section shall be deemed to be material and shall result in the statute of limitation's not being tolled.  (c)  (1) If the plaintiff files an action for medical injury during this tolling period without the requisite affidavit required by § 16-114-209(b)(1) and (2), the complaint shall be dismissed and costs, attorney's fees, and appropriate sanctions as determined by the court shall be assessed.  (2) The provisions of § 16-114-209(b)(3) do not apply to cases filed during the tolling period.    (d)  (1) If a request for the production of copies of the medical records accompanies the written notice of intention to file an action for medical injury in accordance with subsection (a) of this section, and if copies of those medical records are not provided within thirty (30) days of receipt of the notice, then the plaintiff may file an independent expedited declaratory action seeking a declaration that the medical care provider failed to produce the medical records within the thirty-day period.  (2)  (A) If the court finds that copies of the medical records were not produced as required by this subsection, the statute of limitations shall be tolled for a period of seventy-five (75) days from the date of the production of the copies of the medical records.  (B) If the court finds that the failure to produce copies of the requested medical records is without good cause, the court shall award the plaintiff his or her reasonable costs and attorney's fees for the declaratory judgment action.
AR Code § 16-114-213 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 114 - Malpractice Actions|Subchapter 2 - Actions for Medical Injury|§ 16-114-213. Sole remedy

 This subchapter is the sole remedy with respect to any action for medical injury against a medical care provider.
AR Code § 16-114-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 114 - Malpractice Actions|Subchapter 3 - Accountants and Attorneys|§ 16-114-301. Applicability

 This subchapter shall apply only to acts, omissions, decisions, or other conduct in connection with professional services occurring or rendered on or after April 6, 1987.
AR Code § 16-114-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 114 - Malpractice Actions|Subchapter 3 - Accountants and Attorneys|§ 16-114-302. Liability of accountants

 No person, partnership, or corporation licensed or authorized to practice under the Public Accountancy Act of 1975, § 17-12-101 et seq., or any of its employees, partners, members, officers, or shareholders shall be liable to persons not in privity of contract with the person, partnership, or corporation for civil damages resulting from acts, omissions, decisions, or other conduct in connection with professional services performed by such person, partnership, or corporation, except for:   (1) Acts, omissions, decisions, or conduct that constitutes fraud or intentional misrepresentations; or  (2) Other acts, omissions, decisions, or conduct if the person, partnership, or corporation was aware that a primary intent of the client was for the professional services to benefit or influence the particular person bringing the action. For the purposes of this subdivision (2), if the person, partnership, or corporation:  (A) Identifies in writing to the client those persons who are intended to rely on the services; and  (B) Sends a copy of the writing or similar statement to those persons identified in the writing or statement,      then the person, partnership, or corporation or any of its employees, partners, members, officers, or shareholders may be held liable only to the persons intended to so rely, in addition to those persons in privity of contract with such person, partnership, or corporation.
AR Code § 16-114-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 114 - Malpractice Actions|Subchapter 3 - Accountants and Attorneys|§ 16-114-303. Liability of attorneys

 No person licensed to practice law in Arkansas and no partnership or corporation of Arkansas-licensed attorneys or any of its employees, partners, members, officers, or shareholders shall be liable to persons not in privity of contract with the person, partnership, or corporation for civil damages resulting from acts, omissions, decisions, or other conduct in connection with professional services performed by the person, partnership, or corporation, except for:   (1) Acts, omissions, decisions, or conduct that constitutes fraud or intentional misrepresentations; or  (2) Other acts, omissions, decisions, or conduct if the person, partnership, or corporation was aware that a primary intent of the client was for the professional services to benefit or influence the particular person bringing the action. For the purposes of this subdivision (2), if the person, partnership, or corporation:  (A) Identifies in writing to the client those persons who are intended to rely on the services; and  (B) Sends a copy of the writing or similar statement to those persons identified in the writing or statement,      then the person, partnership, or corporation or any of its employees, partners, members, officers, or shareholders may be held liable only to the persons intended to so rely, in addition to those persons in privity of contract with the person, partnership, or corporation.
AR Code § 16-116-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 116 - Products Liability|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-116-101. Liability of supplier

 (a) A supplier of a product is subject to liability in damages for harm to a person or to property if:  (1) The supplier is engaged in the business of manufacturing, assembling, selling, leasing, or otherwise distributing the product;  (2) The product was supplied by him or her in a defective condition that rendered it unreasonably dangerous; and  (3) The defective condition was a proximate cause of the harm to a person or to property.    (b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section apply although the claiming party has not obtained the product from or entered into any contractual relation with the supplier.  (c)  (1) Any licensee under § 17-42-103(7)(A) who is only providing brokerage and sales services under his or her license shall not be considered a supplier under this section.  (2)  (A) Except as provided in subdivisions (c)(2)(B) and (C) of this section, real estate and improvements located on real estate shall not be considered a product under this section.  (B) Any tangible object or good produced that is affixed to, installed on, or incorporated into real estate or any improvement on real estate shall be considered a product under this section.  (C) If environmental contaminants exist or have occurred in an improvement on real estate, the improvement on real estate shall be considered a product under this section.        History. Acts 1973, No. 111, §§ 1, 2; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 85-2-318.2, 85-2-318.3; Acts 2007, No. 316, § 1.   Publisher's Notes. This section was formerly codified as § 4-86-102 and was renumbered as § 16-116-101 in 2016 by the Arkansas Code Revision Commission.   Former §§ 16-116-101 — 16-116-107 were renumbered as §§ 16-116-201 — 16-116-207.
AR Code § 16-116-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 116 - Products Liability|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Product Liability Act of 1979|§ 16-116-201. Title

 This subchapter may be cited as the “Arkansas Product Liability Act of 1979”.
AR Code § 16-116-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 116 - Products Liability|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Product Liability Act of 1979|§ 16-116-202. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Anticipated life” means the period over which the product may reasonably be expected to be useful to the user as determined by the trier of facts;  (2) “Defective condition” means a condition of a product that renders it unsafe for reasonably foreseeable use and consumption;  (3) “Manufacturer” means the designer, fabricator, producer, compounder, processor, or assembler of any product or its component parts;  (4) “Product” means any tangible object or goods produced, excluding real estate and improvements located thereon. Provided, any tangible object or good produced that is affixed to, installed on, or incorporated into real estate or any improvement thereon shall constitute a product under this subchapter. Provided further, an improvement on real estate shall constitute a product in the event that environmental contaminants exist or have occurred in the improvement;  (5) “Product liability action” includes all actions brought for or on account of personal injury, death, or property damage caused by or resulting from the manufacture, construction, design, formula, preparation, assembly, testing, service, warning, instruction, marketing, packaging, or labeling of any product;  (6)  (A) “Supplier” means any individual or entity engaged in the business of selling a product, whether the sale is for resale or for use or consumption.  (B) “Supplier” includes a retailer, wholesaler, or distributor and also includes a lessor or bailor engaged in the business of leasing or bailment of a product.  (C) “Supplier” does not include any licensee, as the term is defined in § 17-42-103, who is providing only brokerage and sales services under a license; and    (7)  (A) “Unreasonably dangerous” means that a product is dangerous to an extent beyond that which would be contemplated by the ordinary and reasonable buyer, consumer, or user who acquires or uses the product, assuming the ordinary knowledge of the community or of similar buyers, users, or consumers as to its characteristics, propensities, risks, dangers, and proper and improper uses, as well as any special knowledge, training, or experience possessed by the particular buyer, user, or consumer or which he or she was required to possess.  (B) However, as to a minor, “unreasonably dangerous” means that a product is dangerous to an extent beyond that which would be contemplated by an ordinary and reasonably careful minor considering his or her age and intelligence.
AR Code § 16-116-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 116 - Products Liability|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Product Liability Act of 1979|§ 16-116-203. Limitation on actions

 All product liability actions shall be commenced within three (3) years after the date on which the death, injury, or damage complained of occurs.
AR Code § 16-116-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 116 - Products Liability|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Product Liability Act of 1979|§ 16-116-204. Considerations for trier of fact

 (a)  (1) In determining the liability of the manufacturer, the state of scientific and technological knowledge available to the manufacturer or supplier at the time the product was placed on the market, rather than at the time of the injury, may be considered as evidence.  (2) Consideration may also be given to the customary designs, methods, standards, and techniques of manufacturing, inspecting, and testing by other manufacturers or sellers of similar products.    (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to an action based on express warranty or misrepresentation regarding the product.
AR Code § 16-116-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 116 - Products Liability|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Product Liability Act of 1979|§ 16-116-205. Defenses generally

 (a) Compliance by a manufacturer or supplier with any federal or state statute or administrative regulation existing at the time a product was manufactured and prescribing standards of design, inspection, testing, manufacture, labeling, warning, or instructions for use of a product shall be considered as evidence that the product is not in an unreasonably dangerous condition in regard to matters covered by these standards.  (b) Supplying of a product after its anticipated life may be considered as a defense by the manufacturer as between the manufacturer and supplier if the product is supplied after the expiration date placed on the product by the manufacturer as required by law.  (c) Use of a product beyond its anticipated life by a consumer where the consumer knew or should have known the anticipated life of the product may be considered as evidence of fault on the part of the consumer.
AR Code § 16-116-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 116 - Products Liability|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Product Liability Act of 1979|§ 16-116-206. Evidence of alterations

 If a product is not unreasonably dangerous at the time it leaves the control of the manufacturer or supplier but was made unreasonably dangerous by subsequent unforeseeable alteration, change, improper maintenance, or abnormal use, such conduct may be considered as evidence of fault on the part of the user.
AR Code § 16-116-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 116 - Products Liability|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Product Liability Act of 1979|§ 16-116-207. Supplier's remedy

 A supplier of a defective product who was not the manufacturer shall have a cause of action for indemnity from the manufacturer of a defective product arising from the supplying of the defective product.
AR Code § 16-116-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 116 - Products Liability|Subchapter 3 - Firearms and Ammunition|§ 16-116-301. Proximate cause

 (a) In a product liability action, the actual discharge of a firearm, a nonpowder gun, or ammunition by a person shall be the proximate cause of injury, damage, or death resulting from the use of the product, and not the inherent capability to cause injury, damage, or death of the firearm, the nonpowder gun, or ammunition.  (b) The manufacturer's, importer's, or distributor's mere placement of a firearm, a nonpowder gun, or ammunition into the stream of commerce shall not be conduct deemed sufficient to constitute the proximate cause of injury, damage, or death resulting from a person's use of the firearm, the nonpowder gun, or ammunition.  (c) Even if the accidental discharge of the firearm or nonpowder gun is found to be foreseeable, the manufacturer's, importer's, or distributor's mere placement of the firearm or nonpowder gun in the stream of commerce shall not be conduct deemed sufficient to constitute proximate cause in a product liability action concerning the accidental discharge of a firearm or nonpowder gun.
AR Code § 16-116-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 116 - Products Liability|Subchapter 3 - Firearms and Ammunition|§ 16-116-302. Limitations on actions — Award of fees

 (a) A person or other public or private entity may not bring an action in tort, other than a product liability action, against a firearms, nonpowder gun, or ammunition manufacturer, importer, or dealer for any remedy arising from physical or emotional injury, physical damage, or death caused by the discharge of a firearm, a nonpowder gun, or ammunition unless the action alleges that the physical or emotional injury, physical damage, or death was caused by the intentional or negligent discharge of a firearm, a nonpowder gun, or ammunition by the manufacturer, importer, or dealer.  (b) A firearm, a nonpowder gun, or ammunition manufacturer, importer, or dealer shall not be held liable as a third party for the actions of another person involving the use of a firearm, a nonpowder gun, or ammunition in any cause of action.  (c)  (1) The court, upon the filing of a proper motion, shall dismiss any action brought against a firearms, nonpowder gun, or ammunition manufacturer, importer, or dealer, which the court determines is prohibited under subsection (a) or subsection (b) of this section.  (2) Upon dismissal under this subsection, the court shall award reasonable attorney's fees, in addition to costs, to each named defendant against whom the cause of action is dismissed.    (d)  (1) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a firearms, nonpowder gun, or ammunition manufacturer, importer, or dealer may be sued in tort for any damages proximately caused by an act of the manufacturer, importer, or dealer in violation of a state law or rule or federal law or regulation.  (2) In any action brought under this subsection, the plaintiff shall have the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant violated the state law or rule or federal law or regulation.
AR Code § 16-116-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 116 - Products Liability|Subchapter 3 - Firearms and Ammunition|§ 16-116-303. Applicability

 Nothing contained in this subchapter shall bar recovery by a plaintiff in a cause of action in which the plaintiff proves that the proximate cause of the injury, damage, or death was:   (1) A defective firearm, a defective nonpowder gun, or defective ammunition that caused the firearm, nonpowder gun, or ammunition to be at variance with its design; or  (2) A defectively designed firearm, a defectively designed nonpowder gun, or defectively designed ammunition that did not function in the manner reasonably expected by the ordinary consumer of the firearm, nonpowder gun, or ammunition.
AR Code § 16-117-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 117 - Receivership|Subchapter 2 - Appointment and Powers of Receiver Generally|§ 16-117-203. Actions by receivers — Employment of attorneys

 In all cases where it is necessary or proper for a receiver to collect debts by suit, he or she may sue in his or her own name, but all moneys collected by the receiver shall be accounted for and paid into court or be subject to the order of the court. The receiver shall have power to employ attorneys and make to them a reasonable allowance for services. The attorneys shall be paid out of the funds collected by the receiver.
AR Code § 16-117-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 117 - Receivership|Subchapter 2 - Appointment and Powers of Receiver Generally|§ 16-117-205. Appointment for corporation, copartnership, or joint-stock company — Powers and duties

 (a) Whenever, in any case, a receiver is appointed for a corporation or its trustees, any copartnership, or joint-stock company, and the order or decree of the court is that the lands, tenements, goods, chattels, funds, assets, moneys, credits, choses in action, rights and interests of every kind, name, and nature, either in law or equity, or any part thereof, belonging to the corporation or its trustees, a copartnership or joint-stock company, be placed in the hands of the receiver, from thenceforward until the further order or decree of the court, the receiver shall have full possession, custody, and control thereof, and shall be vested with the title, so far as it shall be necessary to collect debts, preserve the assets and property for the benefit of creditors, and all persons interested. The receiver may, and shall, bring and prosecute and defend all suits in his or her own name that may be necessary for that purpose.  (b) In all suits which may be pending in any court, prosecuted by or brought against such corporation, trustees, copartnership, or joint-stock company or in which either may be interested, the receiver may be substituted as a party, on his or her own application, without process or revivor. He or she shall prosecute or defend the suit with the same effect as the original parties might or could do, and suits may progress against him or her by substitution in the same manner.
AR Code § 16-117-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 117 - Receivership|Subchapter 2 - Appointment and Powers of Receiver Generally|§ 16-117-206. Cases between individuals

 The provisions of §§ 16-117-204 and 16-117-205 shall apply to cases between individuals, with like effect, as declared in §§ 16-117-204 and 16-117-205.
AR Code § 16-117-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies|Chapter 117 - Receivership|Subchapter 2 - Appointment and Powers of Receiver Generally|§ 16-117-207. Receivers pendente lite generally

 (a) In an action by a vendor to vacate a fraudulent purchase of property, by a creditor to subject any property or fund to his or her claim, or between partners or others jointly owning or interested in any property or fund, on the application of plaintiff or of any party whose right to or interest in the property or fund or the proceeds thereof, is probable, and where it is shown that the property or fund is in danger of being lost, removed, or materially injured, the court may appoint a receiver to take charge thereof during the pendency of the action, and may order and coerce the delivery of the property to him or her.  (b) No party or attorney, or person interested in an action, shall be appointed receiver therein.  (c) Before entering upon his or her duties, the receiver must be sworn to perform them faithfully. With one (1) or more sureties approved by the court, he or she shall execute a bond to the person and in such sum as the court shall direct, to the effect that he or she will faithfully discharge the duties of receiver in the action, and obey the orders of the court therein.  (d) The receiver has, under the control of the court, power to bring and defend actions, to take and keep possession of the property, to receive rents, collect debts, and generally do such acts respecting the property as the court may authorize.