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Marietta Corp.: From sauerkraut to serendipity

CORTLAND — Manny Siegle was a farmer in Marietta who grew cabbages. In the 1970s, his dream was to package sauerkraut in plastic packets for sale to consumers. Siegle bought a packaging machine, but soon discovered that the sauerkraut wouldn’t cooperate: strings of the cabbage inhibited the sealing process. Undeterred, he looked for another commercial

New study projects health-care costs to increase more slowly

Projected cost increases for all types of medical plans are expected to be down by between 0.1 percent and 0.5 percent in 2014, according to the 28th National Health Care Trend Survey by Buck Consultants, a unit of Xerox (NYSE: XRX).  This continues the trend of slower increases since 2010, the survey found. Still, cost

CDPHP, Independent Health form ‘strategic alliance’

Capital District Physicians Health Plan (CDPHP), an Albany–based health insurer with subscribers in Central New York, on May 20 announced a “strategic alliance” with a health insurer based in Western New York. CDPHP will work with Independent Health, which is headquartered in the Buffalo suburb of Williamsville, to “explore opportunities to enhance their efforts to

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