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The deadline for Rhode Island’s 30,000-plus for-profit corporations to file annual reports with the state is approaching.
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By Lindsay Lorenz |
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Small-business employees will have to wait a year before they can choose their own medical plans after the Obama administration delayed a part of the 2010 U.S. health care reform law intended to provide them with coverage options.
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By Drew Armstrong |
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Women in the Rhode Island make, on average, 85 cents to every dollar paid to men, according to a new report released by the National Partnership for Women and Families.
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By Emily Greenhalgh |
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State lawmakers, Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee and Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin have unveiled a nine-bill plan to help “improve gun safety and strengthen existing laws dealing with firearm violations.”
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By PBN Staff
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The sale of Westerly Hospital for $69 million to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital of New London, Conn., was approved today by state regulators, the first such hospital sale approved under the expedited review process of the revised Hospital Conversions Act.
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By Richard Asinof |
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R.I. Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher F. Koller is stepping down to take a post as president of the Milbank Memorial Fund, a national health policy foundation based in New York, Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee announced Thursday.
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By PBN Staff
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Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc will pay $10 million in fines and $3.9 million in restitution to settle two banking regulators’ claims that the lenders’ U.S. units deceived retail banking customers.
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By Jesse Hamilton |
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Rhode Island earned the No. 37 slot on Chief Executive Magazine’s list of the “2013 Best & Worst States for Businesses,” moving two spots up from its 2012 ranking.
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By PBN Staff
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On same-sex marriage, New England is now united. Rhode Island became the 10th U.S. state and final one in the region to make gay weddings legal, after its House of Representatives passed a bill expanding marriage rights to homosexuals.
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By Annie Linskey |
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Bank of America Corp. CEO Brian T. Moynihan, who once vowed to wage “hand-to-hand combat” in lawsuits over faulty mortgages, settled one big fight with MBIA Inc. yesterday as another remains unfinished.
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By Dakin Campbell and Donal Griffin |