Supreme Court of Arkansas
Rebecca Nichols v. James Swindoll and Chuck Gibson
March 5, 20262026 Ark. 42
Summary
The court affirmed summary judgment dismissing Nichols's legal-malpractice complaint because, after the challenged evidentiary rulings, she could not present admissible evidence identifying the alleged underlying tortfeasors and therefore could not establish proximate causation under the case-within-a-case requirement. The court also affirmed the exclusion of Nichols's hearsay testimony and the denial of her recusal motion. The remaining challenges to opinion testimony and late-produced medical evidence were moot.