The Massachusetts Laborers' Health and Welfare Fund v. Starrett Paving Corp., Peter Starrett

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• noting that Section 515’s legislative history demonstrates that statute’s purpose was “ ‘to give employers a strong incentive to honor their contractual obligations to contribute’ ”
• “[WJhere the owner is the corporations’ alter ego, ... it is fairly easy to say that the owner is the corporation, and that the owner is therefore the ‘employer’ (under ERISA’s definition) ‘who is obligated’ (under state law) ‘to make contributions to’ a pension plan.”

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