A Hanover-based industrial staffing company has refused to hire or assign women to demolition and laborer positions and has asked its clients if they preferred male or female workers, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has alleged in a lawsuit ...

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A Cayman Islands-based insurance company that erroneously denied liability coverage could be on the hook for the nearly $3 million in settlement and legal-defense costs another insurer incurred in underwriting the expenses for a nurse accused of medical malpractice at Laurel Regional Hospital, a federal appeals court ruled this week.

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