Court Opinion

ID: 9375941
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-03-01 15:04:29.618088+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:17:03.157759
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Cite as 2023 Ark. App. 125
           ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS
                           No.   CV-22-515

ARKANSAS BLUE CROSS                  Opinion Delivered March 1, 2023
AND BLUE SHIELD
                        APPELLANT APPEAL FROM THE PULASKI
                                   COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, FIFTH
V.                                 DIVISION
                                   [NO. 60CV-21-2725]
FREEWAY SURGERY CENTER; SCOTT
SCHLESINGER, M.D.; FAIR PARK       HONORABLE WENDELL GRIFFEN,
SURGERY CENTER; CENTERVIEW         JUDGE
SURGERY CENTER; SOUTH
ARKANSAS SURGERY CENTER;
ADVANCED AMBULATORY SURGERY
CENTER; EXECUTIVE PARK             MONETARY SANCTION PURGED
SURGERY CENTER OF FORT SMITH;
GASTROENTEROLOGY AND
SURGERY CENTER OF ARKANSAS;
MOUNTAIN HOME SURGERY
CENTER; HARRISON SURGERY
CENTER; BOZMAN-HOF EYE
CENTER; PHYSICIANS DAY A/K/A
MCFARLAND EYE CENTER; SPRING
CREEK SURGERY CENTER; TAYLOR
PLASTIC SURGERY; SURGERY
CENTER OF NORTHEAST TEXAS;
ADVANCED INTERVENTIONAL PAIN
MANAGEMENT; PRECISION
SURGICAL OF NORTHWEST
ARKANSAS; EXECUTIVE SURGERY
CENTER OF LITTLE ROCK; CENTRAL
ARKANSAS SURGERY CENTER A/K/A
ARKANSAS SPINE AND PAIN; AND
ARKANSAS CENTER FOR SURGICAL
EXCELLENCE
                         APPELLEES

AND

ALAN MCCLAIN, ARKANSAS
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
           INTERESTED PARTY
                                     PER CURIAM

       In a recent opinion, this court accepted court reporter Neva Warford’s plea that she

engaged in contumacious behavior before this court. See Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield

v. Freeway Surgery Center, 2023 Ark. App. 91. Having accepted her guilty plea, we issued

sanctions. One was a $3,000 monetary sanction against Ms. Warford. Id. We stated,

however, that it would be purged upon the completion of certain conditions. Id. Based on

the information now filed of record, we hold that Ms. Warford has met the conditions

needed to purge the $3,000 sanction that we conditionally imposed on 15 February 2023.

Consequently, the monetary sanction is hereby purged, and Ms. Warford has no obligation

to pay any sum in this case.

       GRUBER, J., not participating.

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