Nagle v. American Casualty Co.

ROWLEY, Judge:

Appellees, John Nagle and Yonish Trucking Inc., are Pennsylvania coal-hauling employers required by law to purchase black lung insurance coverage for their employees. Appellants are insurance companies or funds licensed to underwrite Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation and Occupational Disease insurance coverage for employers engaged in coal-mining operations. The appellant companies are members of the Coal Mine Compensation Rating Bureau (the Bureau). Beginning in 1973, and for the next five years, the Bureau fixed premium rates for black lung insurance coverage purchased by…