Perez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION No. 1:22-cv-00879-JLT-EPG

HOURLY EMPLOYEES’ PENSION

PLAN, et. al., ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS TO DENY MOTION

Plaintiffs, FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT v. (Doc. 26) MARIE E. PEREZ, Defendant. 17 Plaintiffs Hormel Foods Corporation Hourly Employees’ Pension Plan (the Plan) and Hormel Foods Corporation (Hormel) filed this action on July 15, 2022 against Defendant Marie E. Perez. (Doc. 1.) According to the undisputed facts alleged in the complaint, Hormel sent a form to former employees who were deemed eligible to receive a “Lump Sum Window” benefit under amendments made to the Plan in 2020. (Id., ¶¶ 11–14.) Due to an “administrative oversight,”1 Hormel inadvertently sent the form to Defendant, who never worked for Hormel and was never a Plan participant. (Id., ¶ 15–16.) Hormel should have sent the form to a different Marie E. Perez, an individual who had been an employee at the…