Legal Opinion
Navarre v. Luna (In Re Luna)
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided May 3, 2005No. 03-7060PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.
The question in this case is whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) makes an employer a fiduciary to its employees if it agrees to make regular employer contributions to an ERISA-covered employee-benefit plan. The Plaintiff-Appellants (Trustees) are trustees of various employee-benefit funds (Funds) who sued the Defendant-Appel-lees (the Lunas) to recover promised but unpaid monthly employer contributions to the Funds. The payments were owed pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement to which the Lunas’ company was a party.
The Trustees…
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