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"CHARLESTON -- A man is suing EIN Resources, LLC, after he claims his employment was wrongfully terminated.<br /><br />Stanric, Inc., was also named as a defendant in the suit.<br /><br />On June 15, 2011, Curtis Hinkle was injured during the course of his employment with the defendants and filed for and received Workers&rsquo; Compensation benefits, according to a complaint filed Sept. 26 in Kanawha Circuit Court.<br /><br />Hinkle claims due to the injury, he was off work until approximately Aug. 1, 2011.<br /><br />Stanric was contacted by Hinkle&rsquo;s vocational rehabilitation worker and Stanric instructed the vocational rehabilitation worker that Hinkle did have a job in which to return and that job modifications were able to be offered at that time, according to the suit.<br /><br />Hinkle claims on Aug. 23, 2011, he contacted Stanric to advise that his treating physician had released him with no restrictions, however, on Aug. 24, 2011, Stanric and/or EIN permanently laid him off, with no explanation offered, by leaving a message on his home answering machine telling him &ldquo;not to worry about coming to work.&rdquo;<br /><br />The defendants hired numerous individuals from the date that Hinkle was released to return to work, according to the suit.<br /><br />Hinkle claims the defendants violated the West Virginia Human Rights Act by discriminating against him because of the injury.<br /><br />As a result of the defendants&rsquo; discrimination, Hinkle has suffered loss of pay, emotional pain, suffering, inconvenience, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life and other non-pecuniary losses, according to the suit.<br /><br />Hinkle is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. He is being represented by Stephen P. New.<br /><br />The case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Louis H. Bloom.<br /><br /><em>Kanawha Circuit Court case number: 12-C-1947</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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