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U.S. Farmers, Pummeled by Bird Flu, Prepare for its Likely Return
In Iowa, one of the largest U.S. egg processors has started to buy foreign supplies for the first time. Elsewhere in the Midwest, a free-range egg producer says it may build automatic car washes to ...
Wells Fargo Explores Possible Sale of Crop-Insurance Unit
Wells Fargo & Co. is considering options for its crop-insurance business that may include a sale amid a flurry of acquisitions in the industry. The lender is looking into "strategic options," ...
OneBeacon Exits Crop Insurance Business
OneBeacon Insurance Group is getting out of the crop insurance business. The Bermuda-domiciled insurance holding company made it official with the sale of its exclusive managing general agency – ...
Fireman’s Fund Settles Crop Insurance Fraud Charges for $44M
Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. has agreed to pay $44 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that it knowingly issued insurance policies that were ineligible under the U.S. Department ...
Deere Weighing Possible Sale of Crop Insurance Biz
Deere & Co., the world's largest maker of agricultural equipment, hired Citigroup Inc. to look at strategic options for its crop insurance unit as it sells assets to focus on core businesses such ...
AIR Worldwide Updates U.S. Severe Thunderstorm Model, Unveils Crop Hail Model
Catastrophe risk modeler AIR Worldwide has updated its Severe Thunderstorm Model for the United States, including significant enhancements to all three model components: hazard, engineering and ...
As Farmers Sign Up for 2014, Crop Insurance Reformers Fume
U.S. farmers last week finalized their crop insurance plans for spring planting with critics of the government-subsidized program saying insurers are set up for a bonanza after passage of the new ...
XL Group Announces Acquisition of Global Ag Insurance Services
XL Group announced Wednesday that XL Reinsurance America Inc., a subsidiary of XL Group plc, has acquired Global Ag Insurance Services, a crop insurance provider based in the western United States. ...