Dodson v. Allstate Insurance

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This case is before us for the second time. See Dodson v. Allstate Ins. Co., 345 Ark. 430, 47 S.W.3d 866 (2001) (Dodson I). In the first appeal, we set out the facts leading to this litigation, whereby appellant Dr. Jon Dodson filed his complaint against appellee Allstate Insurance Company and two of its agents, Bobbie Waddell and John Runkle. Dodson alleged that Waddell and Runkle, at Allstate’s direction, defamed Dodson by representing to insureds and claimants that Dodson provided unqualified physical-therapy treatment at his office and that this amounted to fraud.…