Douglass v. Dynamic Enterprises, Inc.

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This case presents an issue of first impression regarding whether a debt cancellation contract is insurance as defined by the Arkansas Insurance Code. Following administrative procedures which resulted in the determination by the Insurance Commissioner that the contract was an insurance product, Dynamic Enterprises, Inc. appealed to the Pulaski County Circuit Court pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. § 23-61-307 (Supp. 1993). The circuit court reversed the Commissioner, and held that contracts of debt cancellation are not insurance. The Commissioner appeals from that order. Because…