(March 3, 2017, 8:53 AM EST) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 17 remanded an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case with instructions to enter summary judgment in favor of a man whose late wife lost her severance pay when she was forced to leave her job because of a disabling illness, saying a California judge erred in ruling that it was a “voluntary resignation” (Stanley Hoffman, et al. v. American Society for Techion-Israel Institute of Technology, No. 15-55756, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 2837)....