American Legion News
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs postponed purchases of cardiac monitors, radiological equipment and pain-medication pumps for patients last year. It didn’t replace old surgical tools, oxygen-delivery systems or deteriorating operating-room stretchers.
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Prudential Financial Inc. ’s practice of collecting interest on unpaid veterans’ life-insurance benefits is “unlawful and dishonest,” the American Legion told a judge yesterday.
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Virgil “Fire” Trucks, who threw two no-hitters for the Detroit Tigers in the 1952 Major League Baseball season, died at his home in Calera, Alabama. He was 95.
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Small businesses rejected from a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs contracting program are waiting more than four months for a response to their appeals.
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Prudential Financial Inc. “should be honored” to administer death benefits for the U.S. military and shouldn’t profit when a soldier dies, American Legion Executive Director Peter Gaytan said today.
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Hedge fund FrontPoint Partners LLC employees were allegedly tipped by a French doctor working as a consultant for Human Genome Sciences Inc. on the results of trials for the hepatitis-C drug Albuferon, a person familiar with the matter said.
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The American Legion, the largest U.S. veterans’ service organization, told a judge that Prudential Financial Inc.’s practice of collecting interest on unpaid veterans’ life-insurance benefits is “unlawful and dishonest.”
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Veteran-owned businesses rejected from a U.S. agency contracting program are waiting more than four months for a response to their appeals.
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The Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs may let veterans care fall through the cracks by scrapping a plan to build a joint health-records system, U.S. lawmakers said.
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Heroes when they came home in 2009, Mike Jones and James Sosh dealt with difficult returns to civilian life through bleak hazes of drugs and alcohol.
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