All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 28 2005 // Farmers Insurance has paid $760,000 to a 62-year-old Irish woman who successfully argued her claim before the state Supreme Court, despite having no college degree or legal training.Mary Mulcahy, of Seattle, was injured in...
Oct 26 2005 // An amendment defunding Premium Reduction Plans (PRPs) was included in an agriculture bill today, an effort the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) sought out because of various...
Oct 24 2005 // More than 300 search-and-rescue officers are now fanning out over southwest Florida and are heading toward southeast Florida to assist in search and rescue efforts, according to Tom Gallagher, Florida’s State Fire...
Oct 17 2005 // As a direct result of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (ARPA), more farmers are insuring their cropland. Nationwide, insured acres have increased by 14.6 million acres, and coverage has increased by $12.2...
Oct 17 2005 // With Katrina’s impact yet to be felt, farmers in low loss-ratio states may have to pick up the slack for the hard-hit Gulf Coast farmers in months and years to come. If anything, the aftermath of Katrina underlines...
Oct 17 2005 // OHIOHospital Group Sues WC Bureau: The Ohio Hospital Association and a member hospital sued the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation in September on claims the state did not follow legal processes for a $50 million...
Oct 17 2005 // S.D. Farm Couple Pleads Guilty to $1.3 Million Scheme: A Rapid City, S.D. couple has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government out of more than $1.3 million in farm benefits.Connie...
Oct 17 2005 // As a direct result of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (ARPA), more farmers are insuring their cropland. Nationwide, insured acres have increased by 14.6 million acres and coverage increased by $12.2 billion...
Oct 17 2005 // Insureds under livestock and equine policies need to be familiar with the policy conditions and strictly comply with the policy conditions.Texas has been the source of much of the law, nationally, in regard to construction...
Oct 17 2005 // In addition to the immense destruction in heavily populated urban centers and coastal communities caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which hit the Gulf Coast region in August and September 2005, agricultural interests...
Oct 17 2005 // As a direct result of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 more farmers are insuring their cropland. Nationwide, insured acres have increased by 14.6 million acres and coverage increased by $12.2 billion over the...
Oct 17 2005 // The hurricane [Katrina] produced catastrophicBroward and Miami- Dade counties inFlorida.As a direct result of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (ARPA), more farmers are insuring their cropland. Nationwide,...
Oct 14 2005 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) on Friday commended U.S. trade negotiators for their efforts to revive World Trade Organization (WTO) talks and provide hope for the opening of global insurance markets.“We...
Oct 14 2005 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to A- (Excellent) from A+ (Superior) of Mississippi Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company (MFB) (Jackson). The rating remains under review with negative...
Oct 4 2005 // OneBeacon Insurance Group in Boston has completed the sale of National Farmers Union Property and Casualty Company subsidiary to QBE Insurance Group as planned for approximately $142 million. The transaction included...
Oct 4 2005 // The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry reported that with preliminary estimates in, it appears agriculture and forestry will take at least a $472 million hit from Hurricane Rita.Coupled with the growing...
Oct 4 2005 // The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies announced Tuesday the estimated losses experienced by its Property and Casualty Insurance Exchanges from Hurricane Katrina. Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi are relatively new...
Oct 3 2005 // The Prosecutor’s Office has charged five St. Petersburg residents with filing false claims and defrauding two car insurance companies after a May 2004 two-car wreck in Pinellas Park, Fla.Zlatan Ramic, Alija Boskovic,...
Sep 28 2005 // A survey of poultry workers in western North Carolina reveals high rates of injuries, as well as significant differences among poultry companies in numbers of injuries and how workers view company emphasis on safety.The...
Sep 28 2005 // Wells Fargo Insurance, Inc., a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company, has acquired the crop insurance business from Portland, Indiana-based JS Crop Insurance, Inc. (JS Crop), expanding Wells Fargo’s reach to...