A Montgomery County jury has awarded $2 million to a woman who suffers complications caused by spinal surgery. A jury of five women and one man found Thursday that orthopedic surgeon Navinder Singh Sethi and Potomac Valley Orthopaedic Associates failed ...

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A Baltimore city jury awarded $1.2 million to a woman who has permanent cognitive deficiencies from being exposed to lead paint as a baby. After a five-day trial and two hours of deliberations, a jury of two men and four ...

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A Calvert County jury has awarded $250,000 to a woman who was injured when a pier collapsed during a wedding reception at a yacht club. Plaintiff Polly Traynham and other wedding guests were lining up to send off the bride ...

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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has a reached a $31,000 settlement with Protocall Communications Inc. to resolve claims that the Laurel-based marketing company discriminated against an employee with dyslexia, the federal agency announced Tuesday. Protocall Communications brought in the ...

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Law firm Meyers, Rodbell & Rosenbaum, P.A., which has offices in Riverdale Park and Gaithersburg, entered a settlement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office to resolve allegations that the firm did not reimburse the U.S. government for Medicare payments made to ...

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Stanley Black & Decker has reached a $140,000 settlement to resolve allegations from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the company violated federal law for firing an employee in its Towson facility who was taking time off for cancer ...

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A Baltimore jury awarded $2.2 million to a man who has permanent brain damage from having been exposed to lead paint as a child. After deliberating for two days and one hour on the third day, a jury of two ...

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A Baltimore County private school settled a lawsuit with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after the federal agency alleged the school did not renew the contract of its softball coach because he is a man. The Park School settled ...

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After nearly four years of litigation, including a trip to the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Maryland Insurance Administration has settled a lawsuit filed by a federal agency alleging gender-based pay discrimination. According to online court records, the ...

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A Baltimore jury has awarded $1.8 million to a woman who has permanent brain damage from being exposed to lead paint as a child. The jury deliberated for nearly two hours following a five-day trial before awarding Lea Gardner, 21, ...

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