US-based insurer MetLife, Bank for Investment & Development of Vietnam (BIDV), and Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam Insurance Corporation (BIC), have reached an agreement to form a life insurance joint venture (JV) in Vietnam. ...
US personal lines insurer Allstate Insurance Company has won a court case that puts an end to fraudulent business and billing schemes carried out by unlicensed medical and chiropractic personnel. In a lawsuit filed in the Los Angeles ...
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Reinsurance and insurance provider Validus Holdings is planning to establish a Swiss underwriting company, by transforming the existing operations of Flagstone Reassurance Suisse. Following regulatory approval, the company will be ...
US-based community-focused health insurer MVP Health Care (MVP) has decided to implement PaySpan's platform to automate reimbursements for providers and members across New York, Vermont and New Hampshire. The payment tool will streamline ...
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Socius Insurance Services, a San Francisco-based management liability and property & casualty insurance wholesaler, has appointed Matt Dross as the new vice president, property & casualty practice. Dross will oversee the business from ...
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Beckman Coulter, a manufacturer of biomedical laboratory instruments, has obtained the 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Access AccuTnI+3 troponin I assay for use on the UniCel DxI series of immunoassay ...
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NuVasive, a medical device company, has announced the first surgeries in Japan using its Precept system, a minimally disruptive posterior fixation solution to patients. The Precept system offers the most advanced technologies in guide ...
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Karl Strauss Brewing, a US-based beer company, has made its fall seasonal beer – Oktoberfest - available throughout California. Oktoberfest is created with almost two tons of Vienna, Munich, and Carahell malts hand-milled into each ...
NovaDigm Therapeutics has started a Phase Ib/IIa clinical trial of its NDV-3 vaccine, which is being developed to prevent episodes of vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) in patients with recurrent VVC (RVVC). Under the trial, which is a ...
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CureDuchenne has launched a new drug discovery and development initiative to identify and develop a pipeline of therapies to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The initiative, dubbed CureDuchenne Ventures, is based on the company's ...
US-biotechnology company Labcyte has partnered with AstraZeneca to develop acoustic sample handling for mass spectrometry to advance drug discovery applications. Biotechnology tools firm Labcyte has recently developed techniques for the ...
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PointCross Life Sciences, a PointCross company, has secured a $20m indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for providing software development and life cycle management of ...
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The US Food & Drug Administration (cof Orphan Product Development has granted orphan drug designation for Lumena Pharmaceuticals' LUM001 clinical program. Lumena obtained orphan designation for LUM001 in four rare cholestatic liver ...
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Command Packaging is set to produce bag ban compliant plastic reusable 'smarterbags' for grocery stores in the US, with an investment of around $25m. The new smarterbags are made from recycled agricultural plastic, and are said to ...
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Ahlstrom, a global high performance fiber-based materials company, completes the partial repurchase of its hybrid bond (ISIN: FI4000006929) issued in November 2009. The company has agreed to repurchase a nominal amount of EUR 45,500,000 ...
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