5th Circuit Affirms ERISA Severance Denial In ‘Good Reason’ Dispute

( November 8, 2024, 11:43 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — In an unpublished per curiam opinion saying in part that “providing additional reasoning to address [the claimant’s] arguments is not the same as switching its reasoning,” a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed summary judgment against the claimant in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case challenging denial of severance benefits following a change of control....