Heat and Frost Insulators of Northern California Local Union No. 16 Health and Welfare Trust Fund v. Rhodium Integrated Services

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HEAT AND FROST INSULATORS OF Case No. 22-cv-05011-VC

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LOCAL

UNION NO. 16 HEALTH AND

WELFARE TRUST FUND, et al., ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR

DEFAULT JUDGMENT

Plaintiffs, Re: Dkt. No. 26 v.

RHODIUM INTEGRATED SERVICES, et al., Defendants.

The motion for default judgment is granted. The plaintiffs—employee benefit plans and their fiduciaries and trustees—allege that Rhodium Integrated Services and its successor, Bold Construction, have failed to make plan contributions or submit to an audit as required by their collective bargaining and trust agreements. Rhodium and Bold were properly served in September 2022 but neither appeared in the case, so the clerk entered default. See Dkt. Nos. 11, 14. Each of the Eitel factors weighs in favor of entering default judgment against Rhodium and Bold. The plaintiffs would not likely recover what is owed to them absent an entry of default judgment and would thus be prejudiced; the allegations are well-pled and supported by the record; the sum of money at stake ($58,131.13) is relatively small; there are likely no material factual disputes judging by…