Insurance Co. and Colorado Farmers Settle Fraud Claim

Two Colorado potato farmers and the Great American Insurance Company have agreed to settle a case in which they are accused of making false crop insurance claims for $131,000, the U.S. attorney in Denver, John Walsh, announced this week. In the case, the U.S. attorney alleged that the two farmers, husband and wife Donald Boyd Bigelow and Janet Kerkman Bigelow, who own two farms in Center, Colo., submitted false claims to Great American. Great American, in turn, was reimbursed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Federal Crop Insurance Corp., and the Risk Management Agency.