Board of Trustees, Michigan United Food and Commercial Workers Unions and Food Employers Joint Pension Fund v. Eberhard Foods, Inc.

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

In this ERISA case the defendant employer withdrew from a multiemployer pension plan and now appeals from the District Court’s affirmance of the arbitrator's decision upholding the plaintiff trustees’ calculation of withdrawal liability. The only issue raised on appeal is whether the District Court erred in upholding the arbitrator’s decision that the interest rate applied by the plan trustees in determining the employer’s withdrawal liability was not unreasonable. Because we agree with the District Court and the arbitrator that the interest rate was not unreasonable,…