All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 25 2002 // Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Sam Hayes kicked off a 2002-03 crop insurance education and outreach program at the behest of Gov. Mark Schweiker during the third annual Crop Insurance Conference in...
Oct 15 2002 // AcroSoft of Columbia, S.C., announced that Farmers Alliance Mutual Insurance Company is in live production in the Claims Department with AcroSoft’s AcroSure solution for document management, imaging, and automated...
Oct 15 2002 // Angry agents from Farmers Insurance Group confronted Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor during a recent public hearing on Texas Department of Insurance proposals designed to increase the availability of homeowners...
Oct 14 2002 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice A. Molasky-Arman has granted a request by Dairyland Insurance Company (Dairyland) to increase its private passenger automobile insurance rates by an overall 8.5 percent statewide...
Oct 14 2002 // Negotiations continued in early October between state officials and senior executives of Farmers Insurance Group of Companies in the effort to find a solution that would entice the insurer to continue to provide homeowners...
Oct 1 2002 // In response to Farmers’ notification that it won’t be renewing homeowners polices for its Texas customers, Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher issued an announcement clarifying that Oklahomans are protected...
Sep 30 2002 // Don Hanson, southwest regional manager of the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), issued the following statement on Farmers Group of Insurance Companies’ recent decision to leave the Texas homeowners...
Sep 26 2002 // In the wake of Farmers Insurance Group of Companies’ decision to quit the Texas homeowners market, Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor released the following open letter to Farmers...
Sep 26 2002 // Following a meeting between representatives from the Kansas Insurance Department and Farmers Insurance Co., Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius announced that the company had no plans to cease writing homeowners insurance in...
Sep 25 2002 // The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies announced it will not renew current homeowners insurance policies in Texas beginning November 2002, and will no longer be able to provide the state’s customers with homeowners...
Sep 25 2002 // As rumors and speculation swirled about whether Farmers Insurance is planning to completely withdraw from the Texas homeowners market, the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) proposed a resolution to its dispute with...
Sep 24 2002 // Due to the cancellation of its 2001 convention after 9/11, recipients of both the 2001 and 2002 NAMIC Service Awards were honored during the business meeting of the 107th convention of the National Association of Mutual...
Sep 16 2002 // Farmers Insurance Company filed suit against Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor and the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) seeking to reverse an emergency cease and desist order issued against the company. Among...
Sep 14 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Equine Insurance Specialists is offering a horse farm package.Dollars: Policy limits of $1,000,000/$2,000,000 GL.,deductibles of $500 to $2,500. Minimum premiums of $1,000 Carrier: United National Group...
Sep 11 2002 // Oregon-based SRC Software announced that National Farmers Union Insurance of Aurora, Colo., has selected SRC’s Advisor Series™ to streamline and improve the budgeting and financial reporting process for both...
Sep 11 2002 // Missouri-based Duck Creek Technologies, Inc., a provider of product management software and services to the insurance industry, announced that Indiana Farmers Mutual Insurance Group has selected its EXAMPLE Platform...
Sep 10 2002 // Thunderstorms of unprecedented intensity struck Southern France Sunday night and Monday, causing widespread flooding and knocking out road and rail transportation throughout the region. 16 people were killed as a direct...
Sep 5 2002 // Farmers operating units Farmers Insurance Exchange and Fire Insurance Exchange have filed suit against Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor and the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) in response to the issuance of...
Sep 2 2002 // Farmers Insurance Company’s troubles in Texas mounted with an August 13 emergency cease and desist order issued against Farmers by the Texas Department of Insurance in an effort to “stop unfair pricing...
Aug 23 2002 // Standard & Poor’s reacted quickly to the announcement by Japan’s Kyoei Mutual Fire & Marine Insurance Co. that it had canceled plans to join the Millea Group, and would instead become a subsidiary of...