At 13 months old, Julian Lazcano was too young to speak or even really understand the firefighters and volunteers who visited his room and formed a small circle around him Friday morning at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. But ...
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Playmobil has released its first ever game app. Plamobil Pirates is available on iOS platforms now and is set to hit Android's Google Play store soon. In the game players take control of popular figures from Playmobil's popular Pirates ...
Monday marked the start of the 2013 federal fiscal year, and with it the release of a new batch of H-1B visas. The 85,000 H-1B visa cap, including the 20,000 visas that are set aside for advanced degree graduates with STEM (Science, ...
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National Interstate Insurance Company is planning to offer a new fuel distribution insurance program, in an effort to strengthen its long-standing captive fuel distribution business. Effective from 01 January 2013, the new program will ...
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Automobile underwriter, Progressive Insurance has unveiled terms for licensing of its intellectual property to companies interested in executing usage-based insurance (UBI) programs. The licensing is subjected to the terms of agreement, ...
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Presidential Life has received stockholders approval for merger with Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company, which is a retail fixed and index annuity sales and reinsurance provider. Athene had inked an acquisition agreement with ...
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Marsh & McLennan Agency (MMA) has acquired Independent Insurance Group Benefits, the employee benefits division of Dallas-based Independent Insurance Group. Established in 1994, Independent Insurance Group Benefits provides a full ...
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UK's motor insurance distributors Kwik-Fit Insurance has introduced a new insurance product for learner drivers, aimed to reduce the cost of cover while driving on a provisional license. Designed especially for drivers still sporting 'L' ...
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US based employee benefits-only agency Digital Insurance has purchased Brown Insurance Services of California for an undisclosed sum, in a move to enhance employee benefits client services. After completion of the transaction, the ...
Online dating site WhatsYourPrice.com has kissed Amazon Web Services goodbye after severe East Coast thunderstorms knocked out one of Amazon's data centers last weekend causing a services outage. The service interruption, which began last ...
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Netherlands based insurer Aegon has signed a 25-year strategic partnership with Spain's Banco Santanderto, to distribute both protection and general insurance products in the country. Under terms of the alliance, the lender will offer ...
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Netherlands based insurer Aegon has signed a 25-year strategic partnership with Spain's Banco Santanderto, to distribute both protection and general insurance products in the country. Under terms of the alliance, the lender will offer ...
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A report on the manufacturing sector in the UAE published by Truth Economic Consultancy said that the number of industrial units reached 4,960 units at the end of 2010 compared to 3,036 factories in 2004. The increase in factories by 1,924 ...
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From Google Maps, the U.S. National Security Agency's parking lot has a larger footprint than the building itself. And for the high secrecy surrounding what goes on inside, there is plenty of information flowing just outside. In a ...
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Sprint confirmed Thursday it is negotiating with Japan's third-largest wireless carrier Softbank regarding a "potential substantial investment by Softbank in Sprint." Earlier reports from the Japanese business press said the investment ...
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