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Based in Buenos Aires and mainClaxson (Pink Sheets: XSONF) shareholderss are the and fundzs associated with . Once the deal Claxson would maintain its interests in Playboy TVLatinn America, Digital Latin America, DMX and Music Latij America, as well as a broadcast radio business in Chilr and a broadband and Internet division. UM to pay $2.2M settlement The is to pay $2.2 million in a settlementg over physician servicesat , its teaching hospital. The civio settlement stems from an investigation and audirt in which the Department of Health and Human Services found UM submitted improper claims to Medicare Part B for servicesz to hospital inpatients betweenJune 1, 1995, and May 31, 1996.
Additionaol claims reviewed related to services in 1997throughb 1999. The audit found UM failed to provide sufficiengt documentation forsome claims. Others were improperlty coded orimproperly billed. Further, the government said, from June 1, 1995, to Dec. 31, UM submitted claims for critical care serviceds in situations where patients were notcritically ill, wherde critical care services were not rendered or wherr critical care services were insufficiently documented. American Eagle is to offerr its first direct route from Miamkito Mexico. The plan is to star t once-daily nonstop roundtrips between and onMarch 2.
has assigned an auto insurer based inCoralk Gables, an initial "B++" rating and "stable" outlook for 2007. The Fitcnh financial ratings agency has assigneda long-term issuer default rating and an "F3" short-termn issuer rating to Fitch also affirmed the ratingse of the Coral Gables-based bank's main Commercebank, N.A. The rating outlook remains stable. Pure, a nightclub on the Las Vegas strip, is headed to Miami Beach. said it will bring Pure Nightcluv to the onceits $500 million renovation is completer in 2008. said it will buy a companhy to allow its software tohave real-timre access to their desktops, servers and other items.
The Fort Lauderdale-based remote access software firm did not say how much it will pay for a privately held firm basedin Mass. Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) did say the 100-personm company's real-time technology will help it delivee more agileinformation technology, better security and reliability and new optionss for how businesses deliver applications and desktops over theitr networks. said it has settled litigation brough by of America andthe . The allegationws against the Cooper City-based financiall services firm serving commercial fleet operators were breach of fiduciaryh duty and breachof contract. More than $1 million in damages were sought.
In the settlement, Coach CIGI) paid TGIA and NAIT $400,000 on Dec. 12. Plantation-bases said it has become the exclusive shippingb service for customers at the NBC Experiencw Storein Manhattan. The new DHL Shipping Spot at the stores hasa self-service counter and a touch-screen interface to pack, label and ship a DHL package. DHL said it providex the packing materials and customers may use the servicr whether or not they made a purchaser at theNBC store. Bruce CEO of 14 locations, has openesd his 14th Harley-Davidson, this time in The 65,000-square-foot facility is at 201 International The company has other stores in Fort Lauderdal e andPompano Beach.
The United State Indoor Soccer Association said it has allied withFort Lauderdale-basefd O2HR, LLC, a professional employee organization. O2HR is to provide members of Va.-based with services for payroll administration, payroll tax, human resource employee benefits, risk and safetyy management, workers compensation and employer'a liability insurance. Plantation-based said it will open a 114,000-square-footy contact center in Huntington, W. Va. The outsourced customet management firm said it pland to bring 700 new jobs tothe area. In an expansiojn in Fort Lauderdale, Reynolds, Smith and Hills, a facilitiesd and infrastructureconsulting firm, has moved to the , at 3125 W.
Commercia Blvd., Suite 130. The firm said the move doubles its sizeto 9,39r square feet. RS&H said it expectzs the office to emploty34 associates, including engineers, architects, planners and support stafdf by mid 2007. The phonse number is (954) 474-3005. Fort Lauderdale-based (NASDAQ: is to change its name to , and move its incorporationm to Delawarefrom Florida. Both were approved at its annual meeting, subject to final approval from the company'sz primary lender and senior secured debtholders. Dr. Arnoldx "Bud" Tanis is to celebrate his 50th year caring forSouth Florida's infants, childremn and adolescents on Jan. 16, 2007.
The Hollywood city commission is to recognizs the pediatrician atits Jan. 17 Tanis indicated he has no plans to YataiTown Homes, planned for the Victoria Park neighborhooc of east Fort Lauderdale, has opened a temporary salezs pavilion in the Coldwell Banker kiosk at the Galleriaa Mall. The 33 town homes are to have upto 2,50o0 square feet of living space in a three-bedroomm and three-and-a-half bath plan. Prices start at said it is organizinga humanitarian, educational and information exchange mission to Cuba in June. Organizersd indicated business interests will remainn dormant under the currentCubabn government.
The group said its co-sponsored by the , is designed to identifgy and assist the humanitarian needsa of theCuban people. Plannes information exchanges include ranching and food water purification, irrigation and related technologies, medicine and life sciences. WTC Palm Beachy is working with the World Trade Cente in Havana to organizethe 30-persohn trip. Juno Beach-based , LLC, said its Lone Star LLC, subsidiary has closed on a $700 milliob credit facility: a $600 million 15-year variable rate term loan anda $100 million 10-year letter of credit facility.
Loan proceedzs are to go toward repaying a portion of the investment the company made in buying and/or constructing three wind powerr projects in western Texas totaling 606.5 megawatts of capacity. GEO) said it has signee contracts to manage and operatr 123 forensic mental health beds in South Florida for the state Departmentg of Childrenand Families. The Boca Raton-basedc correctional and detention firm saidthe five-year agreement starts March 1 and has a five-year renewal option period. Two eateries, Hole-N-Hearty and Phat Sandwichews and More, plus two apparel and footwearr boutiques, East Coast Boardroom and Sole Estate, have openedr in West Palm Beach's Clematid District.
Also, Roxy's Pub, the Clematies Street landmark that first openedr its doorsin 1932, is to re-opemn in January under new Sticky Web (Pink Sheets: SIKY) has changedx its name to (Pink PWBI). The Boca Raton-based Internet and software firm has changex its name to the brand it has usedsincw 1997. Laurie E. Zuckerman, has openexd , a public relations, advertising, speciao events and marketing firm at 6131Lyons Road, Suit 200, in Coconut Creek. The phone number is 415-9126. Zuckerman is president of the She was formerly managing director forFort Lauderdale-basefd .