Compliance

February 3, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In its comments to the Department of Labor on proposed regulations to change the definition of “fiduciary,” the ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) warned...

February 3, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has worked out an agreement to add $4 million in additional funding for the pensions of 9,000...

February 2, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released a new guidance document announcing that procedures governing the amount of federal income tax withholding for non-resident...

February 2, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The SPARK Institute has urged the Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA) to take a more measured and restrained approach in changing the definition of...

February 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee has scheduled a Thursday afternoon hearing dealing with “what can be done to...

February 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In comments to the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration regarding the proposed change in definition of the term fiduciary, the ESOP...

January 31, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appellate court recently issued two rulings in stock-drop cases that a law firm client alert said are important for potential employer...

January 31, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled for the first time that the Ledbetter Act’s paycheck rule does not apply to pension payments.

January 31, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The federal judge in Florida hearing the health care reform challenge involving a cadre of states has declared the law unconstitutional because it...

January 31, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has introduced two bills to repeal the two main pillars of the health care reform law – the individual...

January 28, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has determined that an employer was not responsible for providing a COBRA election notice to a former employee when a...

January 28, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A former salesman for a Utah motivational coaching business has won the right to pursue his lawsuit against his former employer over allegations...

January 27, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee conducted its first health care reform hearing in Washington, D.C., hearing testimony from economists and small...

January 27, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – With a companion U.S. House bill already having been approved, a U.S. senator has introduced a health care reform repeal measure in that...

January 27, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. House lawmakers have introduced a bill that would limit damages in medical malpractice cases, a move many say would lower health care...

January 27, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in Pennsylvania has given his stamp of approval to a $5-million settlement of a Comcast Corp. stock drop class action...

January 27, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge has ruled that a Pennsylvania couple has legal standing to challenge the health care reform law because they can't afford...

January 25, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A coalition of U.S. Senators has introduced  a bill throwing out the controversial Internal Revenue Service Form 1099 filing requirement in the health reform...

January 25, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State lawmakers in Georgia have filed legislation seeking to ban illegal immigrants from collecting workers' compensation benefits for on-the-job injuries.

January 25, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The SEC unanimously proposed that advisers to hedge funds and other private funds report key information to regulators.