It will take months to calculate the damage Hurricanes Harvey and Irma unleashed on Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and other states this summer: lives lost, homes destroyed, businesses wrecked, property damage in the tens of billions of dollars. But be…
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Tags: Attorney, Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, Congress, Crop Insurance, FCIC, FEMA, Flood, Florida, Harvey, Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act, Hurricane, Insurance, Irma, Kenneth D. Ackerman, Law Firm, Lawyer, Louisiana, National Flood Insurance Program, NFIP, Texas
It will take months to calculate the damage Hurricanes Harvey and Irma unleashed this summer on the states of Texas, Louisiana, and Florida: dozens of lost lives, hundreds of thousands of destroyed homes, tens of billions in property damage and untol…
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Tags: Attorney, Crop Insurance, Crop Loss, Elliot Belilos, Farm, Farmers, FCIC, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Flood, Florida, Harvey, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, Irma, Kenneth D. Ackerman, Law Firm, Lawyer, Louisiana, Risk Management Agency, Texas, USDA
By former USDA Secretary John R. Block
Back in March, President Trump gave us a look at his budget plan. Although without much detail, it made clear to us that one of his highest priorities was to downsize the federal government. And, he would do tha…
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Tags: Agriculture, Budget, Congress, Crop Insurance, Farm Bill, Farmer, Food Stamps, John R. Block, Mulvaney, President Trump, SNAP, Trump Administration, White House, Work Requirement
This week, Counterpoint Press announced the release of the newest book by OFW Law’s own Ken Ackerman called TROTSKY IN NEW YORK, 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution.
Far afield from agriculture and crop insurance — Ken’s usual spec…
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Tags: Boss Tweed, Charles Percy, Crop Insurance, J. Edgar Hoover, James Garfield, Kenneth D. Ackerman, Leahy, Leon Trotsky, OFW Law, The Gold Ring, Trotsky
As published in Agri-Pulse
“I have sometimes thought it might be well to establish an office of insurance for farms against the damage that may occur to them from storms, blights, insects, etc. A small sum paid by a number would repair such los…
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Tags: Agri-Pulse, Agriculture, Congress, Crop Insurance, Farm Bill, Farmer, Kenneth D. Ackerman, Marshall L. Matz, Nutrition, Risk Management Agency, RMA, SNAP
People often ask why Washington has to involve itself at all in providing crop insurance to American farmers. After all, homeowners across the country buy fire insurance, individuals buy life insurance, business owners buy casualty and liability insu…
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Tags: Agriculture, Agriculture Insurance, Crop Insurance, Drought, Elliot Belilos, Farmer, FCIC, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Insurance, Kenneth D. Ackerman, Lawyer, Risk Management, Risk Management Agency, RMA
At the recent crop insurance industry conference in Indian Wells, California, Brandon Willis, administrator of USDA’s Risk Management Agency or RMA, surprised many and made some trade-press headlines by announcing a seemingly-obscure statistic: tha…
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Tags: Agriculture, Agriculture Risk Protection Act, AIP, Crop Insurance, Improper Payment, Kenneth D. Ackerman, National Program Operations Reviews, Risk Management, Risk Management Agency, RMA, Standard Reinsurance Agreement, Supplemental Company Operations Review and Evaluation
USDA’s Federal crop insurance program has benefited from a unique public-private partnership that is one of the most successful in government. USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) and Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) set the insurance p…
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Tags: Agriculture, AIP, Approved Insurance Provider, Crop Insurance, Elliot Belilos, FCIC, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Kenneth D. Ackerman, Law Firm, Lawyer, Risk Management, RMA, SRA, Standard Reinsurance Agreement
This past year, USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), which administers the Federal crop insurance program on behalf of USDA’s Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC), quietly issued three new regulatory interpretations with deep implications fo…
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Tags: Agriculture, American Arbitration Association, Arbitration, Crop Insurance, Elliot Belilos, FCIC, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Final Agency Determination, Kenneth D. Ackerman, Risk Management Agency, RMA
By Marshall Matz, as published in Agri-Pulse
As far as politics goes, there is one and only one issue that will dominate 2016…who will be elected the next President of the United States on November 8. After the primaries and caucuses, and come…
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Tags: 2016, Agriculture, Ben Carson, Bernie Sanders, Campaign, Chris Christie, Crop Insurance, Donald Trump, Ethanol, Hillary Clinton, Immigration, Iowa, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, President, Rand Paul, Renewable Fuel Standard, Ted Cruz
