HARRISON v. UMWA 1974 BEN. PLAN & TRUST

No. 91-7117 Non-Argument Calendar.

941 F.2d 1190 (1991)

Walter R. HARRISON, Jettie M. Parsons, Horrer Brewer, William S. Hubbard, Aqurlle Lowery, Lola E. Dagnam, Maudie J. Kimbrell, Lucille Parsons, Juanita Martin, George Kegley, Edna Marcum, Odessa Adams Cain, Ruby Johnson, Clarence Marcum, Ellis Cornelious, Carlton Thomas, Agnes Snow, Bertie Hardin, Floyd Allen, Robert E. Roberson, Harry J. Adams, Milton Caldwell, William Hubbard, Robert Hubbard, J.C. Majors, J.W. Owens, Allen Bryant, the individually named plaintiffs and those unnamed are retired or disabled coal miners, surviving spouses or dependents or coal miners who were last employed for Black Diamond Coal Company, Birmingham, Ala., all are beneficiaries under the United Mine Worker's Benefit Plan & Trust of 1974; Casby Alexander, Sr., Adron Bearden, Eddie Benjamin, J. Sid Bennett, Cicero Bevelle, Amos Boyd, Louise L. Chastain, Woodrow W. Dagnan, Eugene Davis, Tommy W. Davis, Frank E. Deerman, John J. Deerman, Hazel W. Gafnea, Yvenna Gilbert, Robert F. Gothard, Jesse Griffin, Tony J. Guarino, Leland B. Gwin, Cecil H. Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Mary Evelyn Majors, Wade Miller, Vona M. Phillips, Lovell Richardson, Sr., Lish Smith, Hazel Thomas and Lee Woods, Jr., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA 1974 BENEFIT PLAN & TRUST, Joseph P. Connors, Sr., Trustee; Donald E. Pierce, Jr., Trustee; William Miller, Trustee; Thomas H. Saggau, Trustee and Paul R. Dean, Trustees, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 12, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grover S. McLeod, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

David W. Allen, UMWA Health & Retirement Funds, Office of Gen. Counsel, Barbara E. Locklin-George, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before COX, Circuit Judge, and TUTTLE and CLARK, Senior Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge:

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

In April of 1990, the appellants, certain named and unnamed retirees of the Black Diamond Coal Company ("Black Diamond") or their surviving spouses and dependents, filed a class action lawsuit to compel the United Mine Workers of America 1974 Benefit Plan & Trust (the "1974 Plan" or the "Plan") to pay retroactive health and other non-pension benefits. On receipt of the complaint, the 1974 Plan initiated...

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