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An insurance firm is born again on the Web

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Provident American Corp. a health insurance firm with over a hundred years of experience, has launched a subsidiary, HealthAxis.com Inc. which will sell insurance exclusively on the Internet. The two companies plan to merge later this year under the HealthAccess name. HealthAccess is also signing up other insurance companies toe underwrite policies sold on the Web.

On-Line Information Services, Insurance, Insurance Carriers and Related Activities, Videotex & Teletext, Parent-to-subsidiary activities, Internet services, Provident American Corp., HealthAxis.com Inc.

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Firm will recall 35 million fire sprinklers

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Landsdale, PA-based Central Sprinkler Co. and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission will announce a voluntary recall of in excess of 35 million of the company's fire sprinklers.

Product standards, safety, & recalls, All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing, General industrial machinery, not elsewhere classified, Automatic Fire Sprinkler Equip, Brief Article, Fire sprinklers

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Worms are good for area firm; Ecogen sees possible profit in worm-fighting genes

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The article discusses Langhorne-based Ecogen Inc., a biotechnology company that has discovered and patented two genes that manufacture pest-killing worms.

Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing, Patents & copyrights, Pesticides & Other Ag Chemicals, Agricultural chemicals, not elsewhere classified, Ecogen Inc., EECN

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