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18000 - Underwriting Standards

14000 Program Administration | 20000 Privately Developed Products | 22000 Program Evaluations | 24000 Underwriting | 25000 Loss Adjustment Standards | Miscellaneous


PDFs unless otherwise noted.

# 18010 - Crop Insurance Handbooks (CIH)
Provides underwriting standards and instructions for multiple peril crop insurance (MPCI) policies insured at catastrophic and additional coverage levels.

# 18040 - Group Risk Plan Standards (GRP)
Identifies crop-specific procedural requirements for servicing Group Risk Plan (GRP) of insurance policies.

# 18050 - Adjusted Gross Revenue Standards (AGR)
Identifies the specific standards (requirements) for underwriting, administering, and adjusting Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) losses in a uniform and timely manner. To be used in conjunction with the Loss Adjustments Manual.


# 18110 - Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) Rainfall Index - Obsolete
# 18120 - Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) Vegetation Index - Obsolete
# 18130 - Rainfall Index (RI)
# 18140 - Vegetation Index (VI)

Obsolete
  • **18020, 18030, 18031, 18032, 18033, 18034, 18035, 18036, 18037, 18038, 18040.1, 18100, 18110, 18120
  • The 1996-1998 Catastrophic Risk Protection Handbooks have been archived (file). The 1998 and succeeding Crop Insurance Handbooks (18010) consolidate and replace CAT and CIH procedures previously contained in separate handbooks. zip file.

For more information, contact Pam Bollinger.


Last Modified: 11/18/2008
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