IGF Insurance v. Hat Creek Partnership

TOM GLAZE, Justice.

This appeal involves the application and interpretation of Arkansas’s statutes pertaining to the enforceability of an arbitration clause in an insurance contract, see Ark. Code Ann. § 16-108-201 (Supp. 2001); jurisdiction is therefore proper under Ark. Sup. Ct. R. l-2(b)(6).

On February 10, 1999, Hat Creek Partnership purchased from IGF Insurance Company a multiple peril crop insurance policy (MPCI) that covered Hat Creek’s crops planted during the 1999 crop year in Cross County, Arkansas. During the early part of March 1999, Hat Creek’s growing wheat was totally destroyed…