Legal Opinion
Fleishman v. Continental Casualty Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 18, 2012No. 11-3754PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
After working for Continental Casualty Company (“Continental”) for nearly twenty years, Howard Fleishman suffered a brain aneurism that required him to intermittently miss work from 2003 to 2005. Following his medical problems, he continued to work on workers’ compensation claims as a staff attorney and was assigned to a new group that handled high-value cases. Unfortunately for Fleishman, his supervisor began receiving a series of performance-related complaints that ultimately led to his termination in 2007 at the age of fifty-four. Fleishman filed suit under the Age…
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