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E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage

Nov 6 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...

Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverages

Nov 6 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...

Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverage

Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...

Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverages

Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...

E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage

Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...

Mo. Northland Insurance, Humane Society Agreement Saves 24 Horses

Nov 3 2006 // The Humane Society of Missouri has been given ownership of the 24 horses and a hinny who survived an accident on Interstate 44 in September.As part of the deal between the Humane Society’s Longmeadow Rescue Ranch and...

Farmers Dedicates Campus in Agoura Hills, Calif.

Nov 2 2006 // Farmers Insurance Group plans to dedicate a new, 120,000-square-foot agent, claims, leadership and management training facility — The University of Farmers — at a ribbon cutting ceremony to be held at 10:45 a.m., Nov....

Spinach Probe Most Thorough Ever, But No Clear Answers Yet

Oct 30 2006 // Like lab technicians on a crime-scene television drama, investigators have tracked a strain of bacteria over thousands of miles — from bagged spinach in Midwestern refrigerators to the guts of a wild pig in the hills...

American National Declares Quarterly Dividend

Oct 27 2006 // Galveston,Texas-based American National Insurance Company has declared a quarterly dividend of 76 cents per share on its common stock, CUSIP #028591-105, payable Dec. 15, 2006, to shareholders of record as of the close of...

Whitney Named AVP at Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Cos.

Oct 26 2006 // Chris Whitney has been named assistant vice president of Sales Operations for the Texas Farm Bureau insurance companies, effective Dec.1, 2006.Whitney, a native of Pampa, Texas, and a former captain of the Texas Tech...

E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage

Oct 23 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...

Farmers to Double Coastal Rates in La., Lower Premiums in the North

Oct 20 2006 // Louisiana regulators on Oct. 18 approved rate increases for Farmers Insurance Exchange, ensuring that prices for the company’s homeowner policies across coastal Louisiana will nearly double early next year.The...

Mich. Farm Bureau Renews Contract with CCC Information Services

Oct 19 2006 // Continuing its longstanding relationship, Farm Bureau Insurance of Michigan has re-signed a multi-year agreement to have CCC Information Services Inc. to provide its key claims solutions. The Lansing, Mich.-based company...

Wash. minimum wage upped to $7.93 per hour

Oct 9 2006 // Washington’s minimum wage will increase 30 cents to $7.93 an hour beginning Jan. 1, 2007.The Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) recalculates the state’s minimum wage each year in September as...

Wash. minimum wage upped to $7.93 per hour

Oct 9 2006 // Washington’s minimum wage will increase 30 cents to $7.93 an hour beginning Jan. 1, 2007.The Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) recalculates the state’s minimum wage each year in September as...

OneBeacon Completes Transfer of Agricultural Unit to QBE

Oct 3 2006 // On Sept. 29, OneBeacon Insurance Group completed its previously announced renewal rights and asset sale agreement that transfers its agricultural division to QBE the Americas, a wholly owned division of QBE Insurance...

Fireman’s Fund Offers Insurance for Wineries

Oct 2 2006 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. has recently introduced a new service coverage, Insurance for Wineries. The comprehensive product has coverages specifically created for the business of growing, making and selling wine,...

Washington’s Minimum Wage to Increase to $7.93 an Hour

Oct 2 2006 // Washington’s minimum wage will increase 30 cents to $7.93 an hour beginning Jan. 1, 2007.The Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) recalculates the state’s minimum wage each year in September as...

Iowa Farm Bureau Ordered to Stop Free Memberships for Insurance Buyers

Sep 28 2006 // Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. can no longer give free Farm Bureau memberships to customers who agree to buy insurance, state insurance regulators said.Susan Voss, commissioner of the the Iowa insurance division, said a...

Agriculture industry starved for ways to reduce terrorism targets

Sep 25 2006 // The war against terrorism may be focused mostly in the Middle East, but people also should pay attention closer to home — especially to the U.S. agriculture industry, according to Dr. Jerry R. Gillespie, director of...