All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 23 2001 // In today’s steady economy, equine insurance could be one of the best markets you’ve never thought about tapping. Then again, if you don’t know the front end of a horse from the back, it could also be the...
Apr 21 2001 // According to California Department of Insurance (CDI) filings, Farmers Insurance and 21st Century Insurance have requested premium hikes averaging 6.9 percent for their property policies. Farmers Insurance and 21st Century...
Apr 20 2001 // Parts of Europe continue to be ravaged by two devastating livestock diseases: foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), or hoof-and-mouth; and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as “mad cow” disease. In the...
Apr 17 2001 // Farmers Insurance Group will soon begin providing policy processing and customer service to Southern California agents and customers. To gain visibility in the Pocatello (Id.) community, Farmers is hosting an Insurance...
Apr 16 2001 // A North Texas independent crop adjuster has pleaded guilty to one charge of presenting false claims to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Crop Insurance Corp. The fraud charges stem from a West Texas crop insurance claim...
Apr 12 2001 // American National Insurance Company (American National) and Farm Family Holdings Inc. (Farm Family ) announced that American National had completed its acquisition of Farm Family, a transaction valued at approximately $280...
Apr 6 2001 // American National Insurance Co. has received a nod from the New York State Insurance Department to acquire Farm Family Holdings. With this approval, the companies have received all of the approvals they need to complete...
Mar 26 2001 // In a decision that will affect roughly 130 employees, Farmers Insurance Group is closing its Southern California service center in Carlsbad. The process of closing the office officially began March 15. Along with the...
Mar 22 2001 // Farmers Insurance Group has signed an exclusive agreement to offer its products and services to labor union members through local and national union leadership affiliated with Ulico Insurance Group. “We are honored...
Mar 20 2001 // Zurich Financial Services, the Swiss-based Group that owns Farmers Insurance, announced that it had concluded a strategic alliance with Bank of America “to develop and market integrated banking and insurance...
Mar 16 2001 // In a decision that will affect roughly 130 employees, Farmers Insurance Group is closing its Southern California service center in Carlsbad. The process of closing the office officially began yesterday.Along with the...
Feb 5 2001 // Last year was an eventful one for the crop insurance industry with a new farm package including modifications such as an $8 billion subsidy package and a $7.1 billion bailout for farmers hurt by depressed crop prices. It...
Feb 5 2001 // In fact, that’s much of the problem with many a bankrupt rancher, he’s got beef! If he sells it, he loses money and if he keeps it, he loses money. It’s the reality of hard economic times in agriculture...
Feb 5 2001 // Since its emergence just three years ago, the market for weather risks has become a significant new development on the radar screen of the reinsurance industry.“Weather is essentially a new class of risk that is now...
Jan 22 2001 // Whether it is the dry desert heat of El Paso or the humid sauna of Houston, people who grew up in Texas know that its summers are naturally hot. For people in Dallas, last summer was no exception. After 44 days in the...
Jan 19 2001 // Talks between Chinese and World Trade Organization negotiators in Geneva appear to have stalled due to the inability to reach agreement on whether China will be accorded “developing nation” status for its...
Jan 18 2001 // Job-related nonfatal injury/illness rates in 1999 continued to decrease, reaching a record low of 6.3 workers injured out of every 100, according to the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of...
Jan 9 2001 // Two former Metlife subsidiary executives have confessed to swindling the company of $2.4 million. Howard Dale Kartchner, 55, and Jeffrey K. McLean, 49, pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Spokane, Wash. to...
Dec 29 2000 // Rain and Hail Insurance Service, a West Des Moines, Iowa-based insurance company, has reached an agreement to pay $10 million to the federal government to settle claims that the company misrepresented the condition of...
Dec 11 2000 // Far from being uncaring, the insurance industry contributes millions of dollars every year to charitable causes. Following are just a few of the ‘angels’ of our industry-those who took the time and energy to...