Douglass v. Levi Strauss & Co.

David Newbern, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether the appellee, Levi Strauss & Company (Levi) may recover from the Arkansas Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Fund (Fund) money owed to Levi by a defunct insurance company. The appellant, Lee Douglass, Arkansas Insurance Commissioner, argues Levi may not recover from the Fund because the Act creating the Fund limits recovery against it to claims by Arkansas residents and Levi, a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in California, does not qualify. Thus refined, the issue becomes whether a foreign corporation…