Compliance

The IRS has issued guidance allowing high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) with health savings accounts (HSAs) to cover specified medications and services used to treat chronic diseases prior to...

A federal court judge ultimately found that a participant in George Washington University’s two retirement plans had previously waived her right to sue for fiduciary breaches under the...

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit argue that passive funds would have resulted in better returns net of fees that the actively managed funds offered in the plan.

The editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon says Democrats may end up regretting their calls for Acosta's resignation since his replacement could be more proactive in pushing the...

In addition to promoting inaccurate pension heath assessments, a new academic paper argues, pension accounting rules set by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board create “a degree of moral...

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has published a new form and instructions with the goal of streamlining and simplifying the ERISA Title IV coverage determination process.

The legislation aims to establish a 30-year loan program and new financial assistance for financially troubled multiemployer pension plans.

In a new ERISA lawsuit seeking class action status, the plaintiffs claim their pension assets were disloyally and imprudently transferred during a complex series of corporate spinoffs and...

In support of its motion to dismiss a consolidated lawsuit, Fidelity argues that it is entitled to negotiate and collect fees from providers on its FundsNetwork, and that...

Proposed regulations would provide an exception, if certain requirements are met, to a multiple employer plan (MEP) being disqualified due to the actions of one plan sponsor member.

"How does it make sense to say that if you are a dollar over-funded, there is no risk of harm to the participants, but if you are a...

In a new Snapshot publication, the IRS offers a detailed review of the shifting regulatory provisions applying to pre-retirement hardship distributions from DC plans, noting how these are...

An Exposure Draft proposes that if a Section 457 plan meets the definition of a pension plan in Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) guidance, the appropriate GASB pension...

The mortality table in question, published in 1971, assumes 90% of Huntington Ingalls Industries’ employees are male and that 90% of contingent beneficiary annuitants are female, while utilizing...

Two more age bias cases were filed recently by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and an agency report says age discrimination can thwart employees’ plans to work longer...