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| BBB lists its latest summer scam warnings |
| On 05-08-2007. |
| In fact, an Indiana consumer who called the BBB reported receiving 12 checks in nine months, ranging between $4,290 and $12,000. But this was only the tip of the iceberg, the BBB says: As in several scams we’ve already reported on in this column, this consumer received letters along with the checks saying he’d won anywhere between $75,000 to $1.8 million. ... |
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| Hailstorm insurance claims tax the system |
| On 01-08-2007. |
Wednesday August 01, 2007 Sunday’s hail storm caused more than $15 million of damage in Fort McMurray, and adjusters and insurers are struggling to deal with the hundreds of claims pouring in from Prairie Creek Estates and outlying areas.
He said insurance companies are facing the same problem of settling claims quickly in Edmonton, where one fire destroyed 18 homes and damaged nearly 40 others July 21. ... |
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| Pushing us toward health care insurance |
| On 28-07-2007. |
More than anything else, Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" alerted 19th century Americans to the evil of slavery. Greeting this author to the White House in early Civil War days, President Lincoln is said to have remarked, "therefore you're the little lady who started this big war"
Other names are attached historically to great causes. Thomas Paine's fiery "Common Sense" in 1776 inspired the Declaration ... |
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| InRoomMD Names Carl A. Smart, MD National Medical Director |
| On 24-07-2007. |
| Dr. Smart is one graduate of Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Upon completion of his residency, he specialized in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut in 1994. ... |
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| BUS announces shares for debt arrangement |
| On 21-07-2007. |
| MONTREAL, July 19 /CNW Telbec/ - BUS Systems Inc. (TSX-V: BUS) announces that it has entered into two (2) agreements to complete shares for debt transactions, subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval. The agreements provide for the issuance by BUS of 200,000 common shares at one price of $0.12 per share in settlement of an advance in the amount of $24,000 owed to 148293 Canada Inc., one corporation controlled by Mr ... |
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| BC can keep contracting out medical records, court rules |
| On 17-07-2007. |
B.C.'s appeal court has ruled that the province can continue contracting one private company to maintain public health records, rejecting claims that the practice violates federal and provincial laws.
The union challenged the contract in court, saying it could violate both the Canada Health Act and B.C.'s Medicare Protection Act, which says the administration of public health insurance must be public. ... |
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