21 pages. "[It is uncontroverted in the First Circuit] that a plaintiff may seek to impose ERISA liability on an alter ego of the employer that formally bears the obligations imposed by the statute. The dispute here concerns the Fund's attempt to do so in a new action brought subsequent to a judgment against the signatory employer.... Here, the Fund maintains that N&D was -- at the pertinent times -- the same company as D&N and, as such, bore the same obligation under ERISA for the payment of that liability.... The Fund's claim against N&D was thus anchored in ERISA and premised on N&D's de facto status as an ERISA employer, and not ... on alleged wrongful conduct outside the scope of the federal statute." [New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund v.N&D Transportation Co., No. 15-2553 (1st Cir. Aug. 2, 2017)]  MORE >>