United States Fourth Circuit

In an ERISA dispute over the calculation of plaintiff's severance benefits, the district court's determination that defendant abused its discretion in calculating severance benefits is reversed where the severance plan's language was ambiguous and the district court should have deferred to defendant's reasonable interpretation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/28/2005
• Published 11/28/2005

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER and SHEDD, Circuit Judges, and JAMES C. DEVER, III, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Glenn Eric Butash, Pitney Hardin, L.L.P., Morristown, New Jersey, for Appellant.  Robert Edward Hoskins, Foster Law Firm, L.L.P., Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellee.