Honolulu Disposal Service, Inc. v. American Benefit Plan Administrators, Inc.

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT AMERICAN BENEFIT PLAN ADMINISTRATORS, INC.’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

SEABRIGHT, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Honolulu Disposal, Inc. (“HDS”) seeks to recover over $6.75 million from Defendant American Benefit Plan Administrators, Inc. (“ABPA”). HDS spent this $6.75 million defending and settling a case brought by its former employees who had not received pension benefits promised them under a series of written Collective Bargaining Agreements (“CBAs”). HDS claims that it did not know that these written CBAs required HDS to make these pension payments,…