Legal Opinion
Larry Alan Warch v. Ohio Casualty Insurance Company, and Ohio Casualty Group
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 30, 2006No. 04-2354PublishedCited by 221 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TRAXLER, Circuit Judge:
Larry Alan Warch brought this action against his former employer, The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company (“OCIC”), alleging that OCIC unlawfully discriminated against him based on his age when it fired him. The district court granted OCIC’s motion for summary judgment. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm.
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OCIC fired Warch from his position as fraud investigator on April 26, 2002, when he was age 59. Warch’s termination should not have been a surprise. Since at least 2000, Warch’s supervisors had been giving him negative feedback. On March I, 2000, the…
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