Mississippi Business Journal » agreement http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Sun, 19 May 2013 19:38:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Medicaid to pay Health workers; dozens of jobs saved http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/12/medicaid-to-pay-health-workers-dozens-of-jobs-saved/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=medicaid-to-pay-health-workers-dozens-of-jobs-saved http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/12/medicaid-to-pay-health-workers-dozens-of-jobs-saved/#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 20:32:58 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=74666 JACKSON — Mississippi Medicaid officials will resume paying state Health Department workers to help women with high-risk pregnancies. The agreement, announced Friday, starts June 1 and runs through June 30, 2014. Medicaid has typically paid the Health Department more than $8.5 million a year for the program. The new agreement reverses last month’s decision by [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/12/medicaid-to-pay-health-workers-dozens-of-jobs-saved/feed/ 0 NVision expands through new agreement with QinetiQ http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/07/nvision-expands-through-new-agreement-with-qinetiq/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nvision-expands-through-new-agreement-with-qinetiq http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/07/nvision-expands-through-new-agreement-with-qinetiq/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 11:23:17 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=74367 HANCOCK COUNTY — NVision Solutions Inc. has expanded its engineering services and capabilities through a strategic licensing agreement with QinetiQ North America Inc. (QNA) and the addition of personnel with expertise in underwater sensors and acoustic telemetry. Under its agreement with QNA, NVision will have the exclusive right to further develop and license to end [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/07/nvision-expands-through-new-agreement-with-qinetiq/feed/ 1 Solar company agrees to develop hot water systems http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/solar-company-agrees-to-develop-hot-water-systems/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=solar-company-agrees-to-develop-hot-water-systems http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/solar-company-agrees-to-develop-hot-water-systems/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:36:16 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=70423 GULFPORT — Solar America Corp. has executed a memorandum of understanding with Solar Energy Labs Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., a developer of solar hot water solutions. Solar America and Solar Energy Labs will collaborate on incorporation of Solar America’s Solar Power Station technologies into Solar Energy Labs Intellement photovoltaic hot water system. “The opportunity to [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/01/solar-company-agrees-to-develop-hot-water-systems/feed/ 0 Judge accepts Transocean’s oil spill agreement http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/14/judge-expected-to-rule-on-oil-spill-agreement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=judge-expected-to-rule-on-oil-spill-agreement http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/14/judge-expected-to-rule-on-oil-spill-agreement/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:41:56 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=69759 NEW ORLEANS  — A federal judge has approved Transocean Ltd.’s agreement with the Justice Department to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge and pay $400 million in criminal penalties for its role in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo accepted Transocean’s plea and imposed the agreed-upon sentence during [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/14/judge-expected-to-rule-on-oil-spill-agreement/feed/ 0 AT&T employees ratify three-year labor agreement http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/10/att-employees-ratify-three-year-labor-agreement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=att-employees-ratify-three-year-labor-agreement http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/10/att-employees-ratify-three-year-labor-agreement/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:05:02 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=66399 ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — AT&T’S wireline employees represented by the Communications Workers of America have voted to ratify a three-year contract for the AT&T Southeast region. The contract covers about 22,000 AT&T wireline employees in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. On Aug. 17, AT&T wireline employees represented by the [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/10/att-employees-ratify-three-year-labor-agreement/feed/ 0 Entergy Mississippi executes agreement with MISO http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/04/entergy-mississippi-executes-agreement-with-miso/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=entergy-mississippi-executes-agreement-with-miso http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/04/entergy-mississippi-executes-agreement-with-miso/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:06:11 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=66155 JACKSON — Five Entergy utilities have taken a key step toward membership in a regional transmission organization via submission of the executed transmission owner agreement to the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, or MISO. The utilities – Entergy Mississippi Inc., Entergy Texas Inc., Entergy Louisiana, LLC, Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, LLC and Entergy New Orleans [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/04/entergy-mississippi-executes-agreement-with-miso/feed/ 1 Labor agreement reached affecting 22,000+ workers http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/05/labor-agreement-reached-affecting-22000-workers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=labor-agreement-reached-affecting-22000-workers http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/05/labor-agreement-reached-affecting-22000-workers/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:33:45 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=64880 ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — AT&T reports it has reached a new tentative agreement with the Communications Workers of America District 3 in wireline contract negotiations for AT&T Southeast (BellSouth Telecommunications). The three-year agreement covers more than 22,000 wireline employees in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, and will be submitted [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/05/labor-agreement-reached-affecting-22000-workers/feed/ 0 Trustmark, BancTrust extend merger deadline into 2013 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/09/trustmark-banctrust-extend-merger-deadline-into-2013/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trustmark-banctrust-extend-merger-deadline-into-2013 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/09/trustmark-banctrust-extend-merger-deadline-into-2013/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:05:50 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=63752 JACKSON — Trustmark Corporation and BancTrust Financial Group Inc. report the definitive agreement dated May 28, 2012, pursuant to which BancTrust would merge into Trustmark, has been amended to accommodate the closing of the merger in early 2013. As such, the latest possible closing date for the merger has been extended from Dec. 31, 2012, [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/10/09/trustmark-banctrust-extend-merger-deadline-into-2013/feed/ 0 Court rules for Entergy Mississippi in agreement-ending case http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/15/court-rules-for-entergy-mississippi-in-agreement-ending-case/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=court-rules-for-entergy-mississippi-in-agreement-ending-case http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/15/court-rules-for-entergy-mississippi-in-agreement-ending-case/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:56:59 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=61256 WASHINGTON D.C. — A federal appeals court yesterday rejected an effort by Louisiana utility regulators to make Entergy Corp. subsidiaries in Arkansas and Mississippi pay for ending an agreement with their Entergy counterparts in Louisiana and Texas. The ruling by an appeals court in Washington deals with an agreement that has proven beneficial to customers [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/15/court-rules-for-entergy-mississippi-in-agreement-ending-case/feed/ 0 AT&T, union agree to five-day extension of negotiations http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/06/att-union-agree-to-five-day-extension-of-negotiations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=att-union-agree-to-five-day-extension-of-negotiations http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/06/att-union-agree-to-five-day-extension-of-negotiations/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:50:44 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=60751 ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — AT&T reports a settlement was not reached with the Communications Workers of America by the 11:59 p.m. EDT Aug. 4 expiration of the core wireline contract in the Southeast region, but the company and union have agreed to a five-day extension of contract negotiations. The contract was extended until 11:59 p.m. EDT [...]

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