Scarbrough ex rel. Boards of Trustees of United Furniture Workers Pension Fund A v. Perez

DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered in favor of an individual defendant in an action brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461, as amended by the Multi-Employer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980. The main question presented is whether the statutory language made the chief executive officer and indirect owner of a closely held corporation answerable personally for the corporation’s delinquent contributions to two employee welfare benefit plans and for the liability incurred by the…