The Plain Dealer reports that age discrimination plaintiffs are recovering more often locally. The latest award of $7 million for a 58 year old employee from Wachovia is less than half the $16 million dollars that Aurora native Tommy Morgan won last year against New York Life Insurance Co. Experts who have been studying the trend point to age sterotypes called ageism as the pattern in many of the cases for suits by employees in their 50's and 60's.