Personal Injury Attorneys in Arkansas

Rainwater, Holt and Sexton was one of the founding firms on the coalition legal team that brought 72 Arkansas counties and 210 cities together to sue 65 opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, part of the litigation that produced a $216 million statewide share of the national settlement announced in 2021.

Dr. Trent Pierce, then chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board, found a spare tire propped against his car on the morning of 4 February 2009. A hand grenade was duct-taped to it, rigged to fire when the tire was moved. He lost the sight in his left eye and the hearing in his left ear. The man who sent him there was a physician whose prescribing authority the board had revoked.

On February 16, 2016 Daniel Ryals dropped his healthy 9-month-old son at Wendy Jo Strother's unlicensed in-home daycare in Mena, Arkansas. That afternoon Strother's daughter carried the baby into the local hospital with multiple skull fractures and bleeding in his brain. He is permanently blind and brain-damaged. Strother pleaded no contest to permitting child abuse and got probation. In November 2025 a Polk County jury awarded the family $110,000,000 plus $40,000 in punitive damages.

Margaretha Sauer, a 93-year-old resident of Rich Mountain Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Mena, Arkansas, died in July 1998 after five and a half years in the facility's care. Her estate sued the nursing home's corporate owners for negligence, medical malpractice, breach of contract, and wrongful death, presenting evidence of chronic understaffing, untreated weight loss and dehydration, and unaddressed pressure sores. A Polk County jury returned combined judgments of $78,425,000, reported at the time as the largest verdict against an Arkansas nursing home. The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed liability on condition of remittitur, cutting the negligence and malpractice damages to $5,000,000 and the punitive award to $21,000,000, and the United States Supreme Court denied review in November 2003, leaving the reduced judgment final.