All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 5 2006 // Fraud RoundupWhen thinking of satellite images most think of in terms of space exploration, but not as showing up in courtrooms to help prosecutors prove crop insurance fraud. Now the Agriculture Department’s Risk...
Feb 5 2006 // Harvesting value: revaluation revolution comes to farm linesBringing changes to valuations has been complicated because farm are such unique collections of structures Is the valuation revolution coming to farm...
Feb 5 2006 // Insurers writing monoline farm policies and incidental professional liability coverage may face additional work to clarify coverage for their insureds under the federal terrorism reinsurance program. Officials of the U.S....
Feb 2 2006 // Insurance Skills Center, Huntington Beach, Calif., will be hosting a two-day Annual Agribusiness Conference on March 15-16, 2006, in Sacramento, Calif., at the Radisson Resort Hotel. This 19th Annual Agribusiness...
Feb 1 2006 // A federal jury deliberated about a day before returning acquittals for members of a Minnesota family accused of criminal charges in a large agricultural fraud case, the Associated Press reported.The defendants had been...
Jan 31 2006 // Farmers Insurance Group has partnered with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) to bring an African-American documentary film — “Freedom’s Song: 100 years of...
Jan 27 2006 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies and the Mutual Insurance Companies Association of Indiana are working together to address a mistake in Indiana’s 2002 tax code revision which erroneously raised...
Jan 24 2006 // Farmers Insurance Group has been fined $1 million following settlement negotiations about how the company handled consumer claims. Farmers, consisting of Farmers Insurance Exchange, Fire Insurance Exchange, Mid-Century...
Jan 24 2006 // Self Insured Solutions (http://www.calsig.com/), a California developer and administrator of private self insured workers’ compensation groups, reported the formation of three new agriculturally oriented Self Insured...
Jan 18 2006 // Insurers that write monoline farm policies and incidental professional liability coverage may face additional work to clarify coverage for their insureds under the federal terrorism reinsurance program.During a conference...
Jan 18 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B+ (Very Good) from A- (Excellent) of Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company (LFB) (Baton Rouge, La.). The rating has been removed from under review and...
Jan 16 2006 // Seven suspects in California’s San Joaquin Valley region have been arrested for workers’ compensation fraud that cost insurers $900,000, and duped the state out of some $676,000 in payroll taxes, according to...
Jan 13 2006 // Indiana Farm Bureau’s Chief Executive Officer, Jerry Canada, recently voiced the company’s steadfast commitment to continue to work with investigators as well as to support policyholders who were victims of...
Jan 12 2006 // Satellites have been connected with space explorations, monitoring crop conditions around the globe, helping commodities markets price the product and more.Few of us think of satellite images showing up in courtrooms to...
Jan 12 2006 // Conway, Ark.-based American Management Corporation reported it now allows farmers to insure all of their farm operations with one policy. Through a new partnership with St. Paul Traveler’s AMC agents are able to...
Jan 9 2006 // The Oklahoma Senate Appropriations Sub-Committee on Natural Resources and Regulatory Services will hold a hearing Jan. 12, 2006, on the funding needs of rural fire departments in Oklahoma in the wake of the wildfires that...
Jan 6 2006 // Wildfires that have ravaged more than 350,000 acres across Oklahoma also are taking their toll on the budgets of rural fire departments.Rural volunteer departments this year have received only about one-fourth of their...
Jan 5 2006 // A federal fraud case against Peterson Farms is scheduled to begin next week in St. Paul. Peterson Farms, Wendell, Minn. and its related entities Division III Farms and Keywest Farms are accused of receiving $4.2 million in...
Jan 3 2006 // Farmers Insurance Group participated in the 2006 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., the 47th year the company has participated in the parade. This year, the parade theme is “It’s Magic” and...
Jan 2 2006 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has signed a bill limiting lawsuits against the owners of horse stables.Supporters say the legislation, which goes into effect in 60 days, was crucial to protect the state’s nearly $10...