3rd Circuit Panel Affirms Denial Of Severance Claims As Not Arbitrary, Capricious

(June 27, 2017, 7:32 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on June 21 affirmed summary judgment in a case in which refinery workers were denied severance benefits, saying that a Pennsylvania federal judge correctly ruled that a plan administrator’s denial of benefits was neither arbitrary nor capricious and was warranted under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (Paul Felker, et al. v. USW Local 10-901, et al., No. 16-3064, 3rd Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 10982)....