# United Insurance Co. of America v. Murphy

> Supreme Court of Arkansas · February 12, 1998 · 331 Ark. 364

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9678839

## Case

- **Full name:** UNITED INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA and Mark Burcham v. Ann MURPHY
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Arkansas
- **Decided:** February 12, 1998
- **Citations:** 331 Ark. 364; 961 S.W.2d 752
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Glaze
- **Judges:** Arnold, Newbern, Prince, Glaze, Corbin, Brown
- **Cited by:** 40 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- discussing Dun & Bradstreet and deciding to prohibit presumed damages in all defamation cases because "the better and more consistent rule ... is to require plaintiffs to prove reputational injury in all cases"

## Opinion text

Tom Glaze, Justice, dissenting. I join Justice Corbin’s dissent, but add that, by today’s decision, we change case law on “presumed injury” in this defamation suit that has been the rule in Arkansas since statehood. I believe we should have issued a caveat that the court intended to consider the soundness of the rule and the court’s possible overruling it.
Brown, J., joins this dissent.

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