Puyallup Tribe v. Department of Game

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• trustees have a fiduciary duty to ensure that a plan receives all funds to which it is entitled
• “ERISA contains no requirement that the Trustees expend Fund assets to bring a lawsuit against an insolvent employer.”
• trustees could not have successfully collected unpaid contributions from employer-subcontractor, but may have been able to collect them from the developer
• fiduciary acted prudently in declining to initiate suit when fiduciary had determined that defendant was insolvent
• trustees breached their fiduciary duty by “failing even to investigate the possibility of suing”
• fraud or concealment six years applied from when he discovered the wrongdoing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).