Phyllis Thomison Sues Dollar General, Employee Kaycee Rowell Over Premises Liability

Phyllis B. Thomison sued Dolgencorp, LLC and Kaycee Nicole Rowell in Independence County, Arkansas, filing a premises-liability complaint on March 3, 2026. The complaint lists Dolgencorp, LLC and the individual employee by full name, making both a corporate defendant and a named staff member central to the claim.

The suit is identified in the filing as a premises-liability action, and it explicitly names Kaycee Nicole Rowell as the individual defendant alongside Dolgencorp, LLC. The filing date of March 3, 2026 is recorded in the court documents lodged in Independence County, Arkansas, establishing venue for any pretrial scheduling or motions.

A publicly available summary of the complaint includes a specific factual allegation; that summary contains a fragment stating the suit "contends that an imprope" in describing the circumstances that gave rise to the claim. The filing summary does not include further elaboration of that factual allegation in the material currently available to reporters.

The complaint as filed does not list a trial date or a specific damages figure in the available summary, and there is no record in the filing materials reviewed that a settlement has been reached. The case caption identifies Phyllis B. Thomison as the plaintiff and Dolgencorp, LLC plus Kaycee Nicole Rowell as defendants, with the matter pending in Independence County court following the March 3, 2026 filing.

As of the March 3, 2026 filing, the litigation is in its initial pleading stage in Independence County, Arkansas. Any subsequent filings, motions or scheduling orders will be entered on the county docket after the complaint, and those entries will determine whether the case proceeds to discovery, mediation or trial.