(January 10, 2018, 1:09 PM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — An Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Jan. 5 affirmed a district court’s decision in favor of a food company that denied severance benefits under a plan governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, finding that the evidence showed that an employee did not have good reason to self-terminate his employment (James Boyd v. ConAgra Foods Inc., Nos. 16-1763, 16-3443, 8th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 261)....