Connors v. Middle Fork Corp.

MEMORANDUM AND OPINION

REVERCOMB, District Judge.

I

This is an ERISA1 case involving an employer’s liability for withdrawing from a multiemployer pension plan. It arises out of the withdrawal of Middle Fork Corporation (“Middle Fork”), in April 1987, from the United Mine Workers of America 1950 and 1974 Pension Plans (“the Plans”), which are multiemployer pension plans under ERISA, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1002(37), 1301(a)(3). Middle Fork is a Virginia corporation engaged in the business of producing and processing coal, and was a signatory employer to the National Bituminous Coal Wage Agreements of 1981…