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  • November 8, 2013
Risky business alert

hen an insurance company conducts a survey about how well firms mitigate risk, a self-serving element clearly abounds.

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  • November 8, 2013
Hertz spends millions to relocate

Hertz has started relocating its top executives from New Jersey to temporary office space in Naples and a recent filing shows how much the corporate relocation is costing the rental-car giant.

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  • November 8, 2013
Medicaid expansion: At what cost?

If Medicaid expanded in Florida as a result of Obamacare, what would it cost?

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  • November 7, 2013
Spirit Airline to jet from Tampa to Minneapolis

Airline adds two daily flights from TIA to Minneapolis-St. Paul.

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  • November 7, 2013
$2M mortgage scam nets Sarasota man six-year prison term

Patrick Brester also must forfeit $1.9M traceable to proceeds of the offense.

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  • November 7, 2013
Radiation firm shrinks losses

Radiation Therapy Services revenues rise 8.1% despite reimbursement cuts.

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  • November 7, 2013
Check this: Burger biz hits Walmart

Tampa-based fast-food chain Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, known for double drive-thru locations with no interior seats, is expanding without a core piece of its business model, not to mention its name.

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  • November 6, 2013
Sarasota firm expands deal with Hewlett-Packard

Brand Management Group wins an expanded licensing partnership.

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  • November 6, 2013
HMA repaying government $31 million

Health Management Associates says its will restate three years' worth of financial statements.

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  • November 6, 2013
USAA spending $164.3 million in Tampa

The financial/insurance firm plans to build 420,000 square feet of new offices in the area and add 1,215 jobs by 2019.

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  • November 6, 2013
Reitmann inducted into Hall of Fame

Michael Reitmann fought tirelessly for homebuilders for more than 37 years, so it should come as no surprise that he was inducted into the Florida Housing Hall of Fame at a ceremony Oct. 19 in Tampa.

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  • November 5, 2013
Local wellness products firm targets France

It Works Global now does business in 12 countries worldwide.

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  • November 5, 2013
Tampa insurer taking 34,000-plus policies from Citizens

Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty is assuming several thousand property insurance policies from the state-owned insurer.

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  • November 5, 2013
Pharmacists filed claims for dead

The owners of Sunshine Pharmacy plead guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud.

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  • November 5, 2013
Serve up design at Ringling

The International Service Design + Tourism Conference, which launched last year in Austria, will make its U.S. debut in Sarasota Nov. 7.

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