All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 9 2011 // Farmers Insurance announced late last week that it had agreed to settle a nationwide class action lawsuit regarding the medical bills of persons involved in car accidents.The settlement may affect Farmers policyholders, or...
Aug 8 2011 // The father of a northwestern Illinois girl who was electrocuted while removing tassels from corn filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company that hired his daughter.Brian Kendall’s lawsuit against St....
Aug 4 2011 // After more than 42 years as a leader in the insurance industry, John J. “Jack” Hannigan, executive vice president of independent agency operations for Farmers Insurance Group has decided to retire at the end of...
Jul 29 2011 // Montana’s Department of Agriculture is reminding farmers that there is a state hail insurance program, and that the deadline to purchase the state insurance is fast approaching, news outlets in the state are...
Jul 28 2011 // Randy McGee spent $28,000 in one month pumping water onto about 500 acres in West Texas before he decided to give up irrigating 75 acres of corn and focus on other crops that stood a better chance in the drought.He thought...
Jul 28 2011 // Two Colorado potato farmers and the Great American Insurance Company have agreed to settle a case in which they are accused of making false crop insurance claims for $131,000, the U.S. attorney in Denver, John Walsh,...
Jul 25 2011 // President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Wyoming because of spring and summer flooding, opening the way for the federal government to help the state pay for costs incurred from damaged roads, highways and...
Jul 21 2011 // City of Hope hospital and research center’s National Insurance Industry Council is acknowledging Farmers Insurance and its chief executive officer, Bob Woudstra, at an annual gala being held on Nov. 12, at the Ronald...
Jul 21 2011 // When milk prices plummeted in 2009, wiping out years of savings and causing hundreds of dairy farms to go under, struggling farmers pleaded for the government to do something to help stabilize prices and inspire...
Jul 18 2011 // Wayne Paquette stood beside a mangled pile of metal, the ribs of one of his greenhouses. Beside him, only the two gable ends of the Quackin’ Grass Nursery structure remained.Paquette’s Brooklyn, Conn.,...
Jul 18 2011 // Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Inc. has agreed to pay $1.52 million in overtime back wages to 3,459 employees following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division that disclosed...
Jul 18 2011 // Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Inc. has agreed to pay $1.52 million in overtime back wages to 3,459 employees following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division that disclosed...
Jul 18 2011 // Agreements resolving the dispute over long-haul, cross-border trucking services between the United States and Mexico have been signed, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.Mexico will lift retaliatory...
Jul 18 2011 // Barbara Zito has been named senior vice president of Marketing at Founders Insurance Co. in Des Plaines, Ill. Founders is a member company of the Utica National Insurance Group of New Hartford, N.Y.Zito is responsible for...
Jul 18 2011 // Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. named Bill Kenny vice president of tax. He will lead the tax function for Allianz of America in the United States, and will lead the teams responsible for tax...
Jul 18 2011 // A settlement of up to $750 million has been reached with the German conglomerate Bayer CropScience on behalf of U.S. rice farmers in a series of rice contamination lawsuits, according to Don Downing, an attorney with Gray,...
Jul 18 2011 // Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Inc. has agreed to pay $1.52 million in overtime back wages to 3,459 employees following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division that disclosed...
Jul 18 2011 // Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Inc. has agreed to pay $1.52 million in overtime back wages to 3,459 employees following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division that disclosed...
Jul 14 2011 // Nearly 15 months after the massive BP oil spill blighted the Gulf of Mexico and beaches across the southeast, Florida’s top agriculture official said that an untold number of residents whose livelihoods were...
Jul 12 2011 // Crop losses linked to severe drought conditions are expected to take a toll on the economy in southwest Kansas.The Garden City Telegram reported that the Garden City Co-Op is estimating taking about 35 to 40 percent less...