Compliance

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected principles used by an appellate court to review cases about benefits provided by collective bargaining agreements.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has formally outlined his hopes and expectations for federal tax reform, including changes to the nation’s employee benefit and retirement regulations.

The ERISA Advisory Council has made recommendations to support the idea of retirement plan participants keeping their savings in ERISA-covered plans for life.

The 2014 ERISA Advisory Council made several recommendations to the Department of Labor (DOL) related to outsourcing employee benefit plan services.

A federal appellate court has agreed with the PBGC that a retirement plan amendment adopted after the plan’s termination impermissibly reduced its benefit obligations to participants.

President Obama's retirement tax reform plan would give 30 million additional workers the opportunity to save for retirement through their employers, but would put a limit on lifetime...

Edison International has petitioned the U.S. Supreme court to drop its review of Tibble vs. Edison International, a closely watched retirement plan fee litigation case involving the company’s...

Leaders of the Insured Retirement Institute expect “swift and significant legislative reaction” if the Department of Labor’s fiduciary redefinition proposal closely resembles a preliminary version filed in 2010.

The U.S. Labor Department filed a complaint against a Rochester, New York, investment adviser and plan administrator to recover losses suffered as result of alleged fiduciary breaches.

The DOL has issued guidance about new DB plan funding notice requirements of the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014.

The surviving spouse of a fully vested participant in a FedEx pension plan claims she is being unlawfully denied a survivor annuity benefit owed to her by the...

The Supreme Court decided not to review an appellate court decision ordering several commonly owned companies to pay withdrawal liabilities owed to a multiemployer pension plan by a...

The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted several sets of rules and proposed others related to data collection and reporting for security-based swap data repositories.

In an amicus brief, a lawyer argues that striking down Illinois’ pension reform law violates the U.S. Constitution.

The passage of the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 represents an important milestone for multiemployer pension plans in the United States.

The PBGC is revising its premium filing procedures to require reporting of pension risk transfer actions.

The DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration says a substantial year-over-year drop in the agency’s reported collection totals for 2014 is the result of a change in reporting technique.

Staff reductions over several years must be related to be considered together when deciding if a partial plan termination occurred.

J.P. Morgan has agreed to pay approximately $500 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over poor-quality mortgage-backed securities.

The dollar amount secured by the DOL’s Employee Benefit Security Administration dropped substantially in 2014 compared with the previous year, despite a higher number of cases closed and...