Montrose Regional Health is now facing its second lawsuit in nine years accusing it of age discrimination against older nurses, an accusation the healthcare provider strongly denies.

Both lawsuits claimed the hospital supervisors allegedly demeaned and forced out nurses 40 years old or older, according to documents from both cases. The hospital denies the latest allegations and says it intends to defend against them.

The most recent litigation was filed on Tuesday by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a U.S. government agency that enforces labor laws. The EEOC filed the action on behalf of an unspecified number of former Montrose nurses, as it did in the previous lawsuit filed in 2016. In both lawsuits, a single complaintant among the group was identified as the primary subject

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