By Forrest Laws
Delta Farm Press
Federal Crop Insurance policies are “unique creatures” in that they contain an arbitration clause that requires most disputes between an approved crop insurance provider or an AIP and an insured farmer to be arbitrated.
“The qualifier to that,” according to Grant Ballard, an attorney with Arkansas Ag Law based in Little Rock, “is that if there’s a question of policy or procedure interpretation that issue is to be submitted to the USDA Risk Management Agency.