{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-118-107","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 16-118-107","heading":"Civil action by crime victim","body":"(a) (1) Any person injured or damaged by reason of conduct of another person that would constitute a felony under Arkansas law may file a civil action to recover damages based on the conduct. (2) The burden of proof for showing conduct that constituted a felony shall be a preponderance of the evidence. (3) If the person who is injured or damaged prevails, he or she shall be entitled to recover costs and attorney's fees. (b) The action may be maintained by the person who was injured or damaged or, after the person's death, the executor, administrator, or representative of his or her estate. (c) The remedy provided in this section shall be in addition to any other remedies in law or equity. (d) This section does not apply to offenses under § 5-28-101 et seq. or the Medicaid Fraud Act, § 5-55-101 et seq. Acts 1997, No. 341, § 1; 2011, No. 223, § 1.\n\n(a) (1) Any person injured or damaged by reason of conduct of another person that would constitute a felony under Arkansas law may file a civil action to recover damages based on the conduct. (2) The burden of proof for showing conduct that constituted a felony shall be a preponderance of the evidence. (3) If the person who is injured or damaged prevails, he or she shall be entitled to recover costs and attorney's fees.\n\n(1) Any person injured or damaged by reason of conduct of another person that would constitute a felony under Arkansas law may file a civil action to recover damages based on the conduct.\n\n(2) The burden of proof for showing conduct that constituted a felony shall be a preponderance of the evidence.\n\n(3) If the person who is injured or damaged prevails, he or she shall be entitled to recover costs and attorney's fees.\n\n(b) The action may be maintained by the person who was injured or damaged or, after the person's death, the executor, administrator, or representative of his or her estate.\n\n(c) The remedy provided in this section shall be in addition to any other remedies in law or equity.\n\n(d) This section does not apply to offenses under § 5-28-101 et seq. or the Medicaid Fraud Act, § 5-55-101 et seq.","path":["AR Code","Title 16","Chapter 118"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"d40433a81eb367070867c89a6ebaac44c400c3523883954dd9ad84688a61079b","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-118-106","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-118-108","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}