All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 4 2001 // Farmers Insurance Group® was recognized for achieving the highest growth in market share among insurance companies participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).Howard Leiken, acting director of the Federal...
Aug 27 2001 // S&P took rating actions on Acceptance Insurance Companies Inc. (AICI) and its insurance operating subsidiaries.S&P downgraded American Growers Insurance Co. (AGIC) because of declining earnings and uncertain...
Aug 20 2001 // Standard & Poor’s took rating actions on Acceptance Insurance Companies Inc. (AICI) and its insurance operating subsidiaries.S&P downgraded American Growers Insurance Co. (AGIC) because of declining...
Aug 17 2001 // Standard & Poor’s lowered its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Farmers Insurance Exchange group (Farmers) to “AA-” from “AA+” and placed the ratings on CreditWatch...
Aug 7 2001 // Stephen Leaman has been named executive vice president of property and casualty operations at Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Group. In this position, he will oversee the business focus for the property and casualty...
Aug 6 2001 // A Travis County judge has named Austin lawyer and former Texas Supreme Court candidate Karl Bayer to mediate a settlement in a mold-related lawsuit in which the jury slapped Farmers Insurance Group with a $32 million...
Aug 3 2001 // Farmers Insurance Group of Companies announced a special discount program for new parents in the state of Utah. New parents will be eligible to earn discounts on auto insurance. Farmers has also arranged for new parents to...
Jul 30 2001 // An Oakland, Calif., jury awarded a record-setting claim for overtime to a group of Farmers Insurance Adjusters participating in a class action suit. More than 2,000 adjusters working for Farmers Insurance Exchange will...
Jul 27 2001 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, a major insurer of livestock, has created a new insurance program to target the fast-growing fish farming business. Whether a fish farm is an indoor or outdoor operation, The Hartford...
Jul 23 2001 // Three Nolan County, Texas, farmers pleaded guilty in a Lubbock federal court July 12 to filing over $540,000 in fraudulent crop insurance claims with the federal government. According to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the...
Jul 13 2001 // Farmers Insurance Exchange, a member company of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, stated it is disappointed and concerned about the recent verdict against it rendered by the jury in Alameda County (Calif.) Superior...
Jul 12 2001 // A jury has awarded a record-setting claim for overtime for a class of Farmers Insurance Adjusters in the final amount of $90,009,208 for overtime pay in a class action suit in Oakland.More than 2,000 adjusters working for...
Jul 9 2001 // Homeowners turned out in force to testify and listen, and to applaud when they agreed with what they heard, at a June 26 Texas Department of Insurance (DOI) public hearing on issues related to toxic mold and insurance...
Jun 25 2001 // A recent jury decision should put up red flags for insurers: Take care of toxic mold claims adequately and promptly, or risk being assessed millions of dollars.That warning came in the form of a $32-million award to a...
Jun 22 2001 // On Tuesday, June 12, CPCU Society Western Regional Governor Betsey Brewer, CPCU, Aon Risk Services, installed the newly elected Officers and Directors of the CPCU Society’s Los Angeles Chapter for the upcoming...
Jun 18 2001 // Travis County District Court jury to the insurance industry: take care of toxic mold claims adequately and promptly or risk being assessed millions of dollars.That warning came in the form of a $32-million award to a...
Jun 11 2001 // Meetings in Shanghai between U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick and China’s Foreign Trade Minister Shi Guangsheng have apparently produced “a consensus on major issues” further clearing the way for...
Jun 8 2001 // The Pennsylvania State Senate earlier this week gave unanimous approval to an amendment proposed by Sen. Noah Wenger (R) which would give farmers continued access to state funds for subsidized crop insurance. Wenger aimed...
Jun 4 2001 // All the recent talk about the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act got me to thinking about privacy and particularly privacy on the Internet. That led me to The Devil’s Rope—the invention of Joseph Glidden, the Father of Barbed...
Jun 4 2001 // A study conducted by an agricultural economist with Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan. found a 3.7 percent increase in the number of crop insurance policies taken out on the U.S. cotton crop in 2001. According to...