Trustees of Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters' Employee Benefits Fund v. H.B. Stubbs Co.

OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR LEAVE TO AMEND COMPLAINT [60]

LAURIE J. MICHELSON, District Judge.

When facing financial hardship, a company must often make difficult decisions about which obligations to pay. In this case, several entities operating under the “H.B. Stubbs” name lost half their collective business and did not make contributions to an employee-benefit fund, a pension fund, and an apprenticeship fund (among others), each governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. The trustees of the funds (“Trustees”) (along with…