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Colo. Governor-Elect Makes More Appointments

Jan 2 2007 // Farmer and longtime Prowers County Commissioner John Stulp will be nominated to head the Colorado Agriculture Department, Gov.-elect Bill Ritter said.The Democrat also said he would appoint Manitou Springs Mayor Marcy...

Watkins Joins Abram Interstate’s Commercial Lines Department

Dec 29 2006 // Abram Interstate Insurance Services Inc. located in Rocklin, Calif., has added Aimee Watkins to its Commercial Lines Department. Watkins began her career in the insurance industry six years ago. Working at Networked...

Washington’s New Minimum Wage Takes Effect in January

Dec 28 2006 // Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries has increased the state’s minimum wage 30 cents to $7.93 per hour beginning Jan. 1, 2007. L&I recalculates the state’s minimum wage each year in...

Idaho Governor-Elect Appoints Deal to Head Department of Insurance

Dec 27 2006 // Gov.-elect Butch Otter has appointed three Republicans with close ties to his campaign to lead state agencies, including state Rep. Bill Deal, who takes over at the Department of Insurance after losing a bid for Idaho...

Commissioners, compensation rules, earthquakes made for shaky ground

Dec 25 2006 // In the era when cowboys and gold panners roamed, the West was characterized as a wild yet adventurous place to live. Judging by 2006’s insurance industry headlines, those sentiments don’t seem to have...

Top 10 Stories of the Year – West

Dec 24 2006 // In the era when cowboys and gold panners roamed, the West was characterized as a wild yet adventurous place to live. Judging by 2006’s insurance industry headlines, those sentiments don’t seem to have...

Overall, Foodborne Illnesses Decline, Except from Leafy Vegetables

Dec 21 2006 // Recent E. coli outbreaks have drawn attention to foodborne illnesses, and though officials say the overall number of cases is on the decline, produce — particularly leafy vegetables — is increasingly a carrier of germs...

Farm Insurer Must Pay $512,000 in Restitution for Fraud Scheme

Dec 11 2006 // The former president of Crop Hail Management Inc. in Bigfork, Mont., has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and ordered to pay $512,000 in restitution for money laundering and fraud.Myron “Mike”...

Study: St. George, Utah Ranked Most Secure Place To Live

Dec 5 2006 // According to the third annual “Most Secure U.S. Places to Live” rankings from Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, the most secure location to live in the United States is St. George, Utah.The rankings,...

N.Y. Man Sentenced for Fraud in Dairy Barn Fire

Dec 1 2006 // Peter Mravlja of Decatur, N.Y., was officially sentenced subsequent to his plea of guilty to felony insurance fraud following a joint investigation into a suspicious fire at his dairy barn on April 20, 2003, according to...

N.D. Policyholders Confused on Vote to Move Farmers Union Mutual

Nov 30 2006 // Some Farmers Union Mutual Insurance policyholders are confused about whether they can vote on moving the state Farmers Union headquarters to Mandan from Jamestown.The insurance company is separate from the farm...

Senate Will Make Last-Ditch Effort for Disaster Dollars

Nov 30 2006 // Farm-state senators will make a last-ditch effort this week to pass agricultural disaster assistance, though it’s unlikely it will become law before the new year.North Dakota Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, both...

Zurich Reports ‘Excellent’ 9-Months

Nov 16 2006 // Zurich Financial Services Group reported continued strong operating performances in all business segments, which “generated a record business operating profit and net income for the nine months to September 30,...

Cold, Wet Weather Hurts Sugar-Beet Harvest

Nov 13 2006 // Weather unusually cold and wet has damaged the eastern Montana sugar-beet crop, some of it left frozen in the ground because harvest equipment cannot cross the wet fields.Heavy rain since mid-September and four consecutive...

E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage

Nov 6 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...

Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverages

Nov 6 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...

Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverage

Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...

Spinach contamination demonstrates need for recall and business interruption coverages

Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that...

E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage

Nov 5 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...

Mo. Northland Insurance, Humane Society Agreement Saves 24 Horses

Nov 3 2006 // The Humane Society of Missouri has been given ownership of the 24 horses and a hinny who survived an accident on Interstate 44 in September.As part of the deal between the Humane Society’s Longmeadow Rescue Ranch and...