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Compliance | August 23rd, 2011

PwC Denied Summary Judgment on Whipsaw Calculation Claim

August 23, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was unable to prove that its calculation of benefits for cash balance plan participants satisfied the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

Compliance | August 22nd, 2011

EBSA to Host VFCP Webcast

August 22, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration will host a Webcast on August 24 to inform plan sponsors and service providers...

Compliance | August 22nd, 2011

Tax Court Enforces 10% Penalty on Deemed Distribution

August 22, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A tax court has upheld the 10% early distribution penalty that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) imposed on a deemed distribution of a...

Compliance | August 22nd, 2011

State AGs File Brief in Support of HCR

August 22, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has filed a brief in the 8^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals supporting the constitutionality of the...

Compliance | August 22nd, 2011

Court Upholds Jury Award for Fired Police Officer

August 22, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a jury award to a former police officer fired for opposing discrimination by his...

Compliance | August 17th, 2011

DoL Files Brief in SunTrust Stock Drop Case

August 17, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis is asking an appellate court to uphold a district court's decision refusing to dismiss a claim...

Compliance | August 17th, 2011

Regulators Issue Proposal on Health Benefits Education

August 17, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury have proposed new rules under the Affordable Care Act that will...

Compliance | August 17th, 2011

ICI Submits Brief in Retail vs. Institutional Funds Case

August 17, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In an amicus curiae brief submitted to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Investment Company Institute (ICI) said plaintiffs’ contentions in...

Compliance | August 15th, 2011

TN Court Rules against Nissan in Return-to-Work Case

August 15, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Tennessee's Supreme Court has found that a former Nissan North American, Inc. worker is eligible for additional workers compensation benefits because the company did not...

Compliance | August 12th, 2011

11th Circuit Finds Health Care Mandate Unconstitutional

August 12, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In a 2-1 decision, a federal appeals court panel has sided with 26 states in finding that the requirement in the Patient Protection...

Compliance | August 12th, 2011

Regulators Propose Rules on Small Biz Health Exchange Participation

August 12, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury have proposed standards and processes for employers enrolling in qualified health plans and insurance...

Compliance | August 12th, 2011

Employers Win in CA Workers’ Comp COLA Case

August 12, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California’s Supreme Court handed employers and insurers a victory in a closely watched dispute over annual cost-of-living adjustments for certain workers compensation claimants,...

Compliance | August 12th, 2011

Appellate Court Finds Cash Balance Plan not Age Biased

August 12, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appellate court has upheld a ruling that the cash balance plan offered by El Paso Corporation does not violate the Employee...