Court: Peabody must pay retiree benefits from Patriot spinoff
August 21, 2013 at 17:11 PM EDT
The U.S. Court of Appeals’ bankruptcy appellate panel on Wednesday reversed a May decision by federal Bankruptcy Judge Kathy Surratt-States that would have allowed Peabody Energy to stop paying health care benefits for 3,100 retirees that it had assumed in the spinoff of Patriot Coal...