Compliance

October 31, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In a long-running Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) legal challenge against Kraft Foods, a federal court has denied class certification to defined...

October 29, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has issued a proposed rule on benefit determinations and plan valuations for statutory hybrid plans.

October 28, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) announced the publication of a final rule updating the procedures for filing and...

October 28, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is suing Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC for $16.6 million to cover pension debt from the closing of...

October 27, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has released a Securities and Exchange Commission staff no-action letter relating to EBSA’s participant-level...

October 27, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – On Wednesday a Florida judge challenged the state’s defense of a new law that requires public employees to contribute 3% of their pay...

October 27 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hilton Reservations Worldwide LLC has agreed to pay $715,507 in minimum and overtime back wages to 2,645 current and former customer service employees. 

October 27, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina ruled, an employee who previously won a claim to re-enter a service-based...

October 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) published a final rule revising Form LM-30.  

October 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has found that two doctors voluntarily terminated employment and thus are not eligible...

October 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U. S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina has approved a $12.35 million settlement in an Employee Retirement Income...

October 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled, a former employee...

October 25, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation has updated its Web site to report that premiums paid by retirement plan sponsors to the agency will...

October 24, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled an injured employee whose condition was worsened by light-duty work can claim his condition as a new...

October 24, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued a final regulation regarding a new prohibited transaction exemption. 
 

October 24, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled a plan participant’s claim that a California state law for the recovery...

October 20, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled a workers compensation exclusion in an employer’s underinsured motorist policy purchased from a risk management pool is unenforceable...

October 20, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a notice to provide guidance on fee...

October 20, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – For the 2012 tax year,  personal exemptions and standard deductions will rise and tax brackets will widen due to inflation, the Internal Revenue...

October 20, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced cost of living adjustments (COLAs) affecting dollar limitations for pension plans and other retirement-related items for Tax...