All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 7 2002 // Westfield Group and American Agrisurance, Inc. (AmAg®) have formed a marketing alliance for the sale of crop insurance to agricultural producers throughout the northeastern and mid-Atlantic United States.According to...
Aug 7 2002 // A judge in Fargo, N.D. dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the agency’s cancellation of a type of federal crop insurance for durum wheat last year.According to the Associated Press,...
Aug 6 2002 // In response to the lawsuit filed Aug. 5 by the Texas Attorney General against Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, the company has reviewed the allegations and says they are without merit. The lawsuit was filed by...
Aug 6 2002 // Iowa-based Acceptance Insurance Companies Inc. has retained Philo Smith & Co. as a financial advisor to assist the company in expanding its agricultural risk management operations. American Agrisurance Inc. and...
Aug 5 2002 // Fitch Ratings assigned a “B-” Long-Term issuer rating to Acceptance Insurance Companies Inc. (Acceptance) and a “CCC+” rating to Acceptance’s $94.875 million 9.00 percent Trust Preferred...
Aug 5 2002 // Farmers Insurance Exchange and Truck Insurance Exchange began serving summons and complaints July 16 upon a Contra Costa County, Calif. body shop and its owners, accusing them of taking part in a large-scale scheme...
Aug 5 2002 // Property and casualty insurer Farmers Alliance Mutual Insurance Co. will accept no new customers in New Mexico and will not renew existing customers’ policies, impacting some 7,000 policyholders, according to the...
Aug 5 2002 // Property and casualty insurer Farmers Alliance Mutual Insurance Co. will accept no new customers in New Mexico and will not renew existing customers’ policies, impacting some 7,000 policyholders, according to the...
Aug 5 2002 // Fitch Ratings assigned a “B-” Long-Term issuer rating to Acceptance Insurance Companies Inc. (Acceptance) and a “CCC+” rating to Acceptance’s $94.875 million 9.00 percent Trust Preferred...
Aug 5 2002 // Fitch Ratings assigned a “B-” Long-Term issuer rating to Acceptance Insurance Companies Inc. (Acceptance) and a “CCC+” rating to Acceptance’s $94.875 million 9.00 percent Trust Preferred...
Jul 22 2002 // Property and Casualty insurer Farmers Alliance Mutual Insurance Co. will accept no new customers in New Mexico and will not renew existing customers’ policies, impacting some 7,000 policyholders, according to the...
Jul 22 2002 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor has initiated an investigation of Farmers Insurance Co. to determine whether new homeowners restrictions it put in place violate fair trade practices.The Austin...
Jul 22 2002 // Fitch Ratings assigned a “B-” Long-Term issuer rating to Acceptance Insurance Companies Inc. (Acceptance) and a “CCC+” rating to Acceptance’s $94.875 million 9.00 percent Trust Preferred...
Jul 17 2002 // Farmers Insurance Exchange and Truck Insurance Exchange began serving summons and complaints July 16 upon a Contra Costa County, Calif. body shop and its owners, accusing them of taking part in a large scale scheme...
Jul 15 2002 // The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies has made available the “You’re Essential to Safety” (Y.E.S.) Program in Texas. The Y.E.S. program was developed to educate young drivers and their parents or...
Jul 9 2002 // Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company announced that the Farm Bureau property-casualty affiliates in Kansas (Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company, Inc.) and Nebraska (Farm Bureau Insurance Company of Nebraska) will merge...
Jun 26 2002 // Farm supply cooperatives and grain elevators in the Midwest are in a difficult situation regarding insurance, according to an Associated Press report, as those operations face skyrocketing premiums even if they are able to...
Jun 18 2002 // Farmers Insurance Group announced that it will offer special discounts on its auto insurance rates to Virginians who also have a Farmers New World Life Insurance Company policy. “The discount is part of an effort by...
Jun 17 2002 // Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance Companies has reached a definitive agreement with Agway Inc. to acquire 100 percent of the stock of New York-based Agway Insurance Company, in a deal valued at $21 million. The transaction is...
May 16 2002 // Minnesota-based Farmers Home Group is partnering with PromiseMark, ™ Inc. of Fairfax, Va., to offer the comprehensive Identity Theft Protection Plan through the FHG Network at www.farmershome.com.Farmers Home said the...