Middleton

Plaintiffs-Appellants, Trustees of the Southern California Bakery Drivers Security Fund and Dirk Geersen (“Bakery Drivers”), appeal the district court’s summary judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees, Rick Middleton and South Bay Teamsters and Employers Health and Welfare and Related Benefits Trust Fund (“South Bay Teamsters”) on claims of breach of fiduciary duty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., and breach of collective bargaining agreements under the Labor Management Relations Act (“LMRA”), 29 U.S.C. § 301 et seq., and the district court’s award of attorneys’ fees to South Bay Teamsters.

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This case involves a dispute between the trustees of two employee benefit plans over an agreement in which one plan was to provide certain benefits to plan participants of the other plan. On August 1, 1987, Bakery Drivers contracted with South Bay Teamsters for certain death, accidental death, and dismemberment benefits. In a Trust-to-Trust agreement, Bakery Drivers contracted to pay $5.50 per month for each active fund participant to South Bay Teamsters in exchange for death and related benefits amounting to $10,000 in the event of…