Compliance

December 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Gary L. Merritt, vice president of Bemcore Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, has been sentenced by a federal court to five years’ probation and...

December 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor has rescinded the Form T-1 reporting requirement for union trusts controlled by union officials.

December 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has denied a request for a jury trial by former employees of YRC Worldwide who are suing the company for...

December 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In a hearing on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), American Benefits Council Actuarial and International Benefits Consultant Kenneth Porter said certain well-intended...

December 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Josh Gotbaum, director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), told a Senate committee that the agency has been aggressive in its efforts...

December 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A Christian college in Virginia has lost its bid to challenge the health care reform law over whether the required coverage it calls...

November 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has extended the deadline for amending certain defined benefit plans as required by the Pension Protection Act (PPA)...

November 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service has issued Notice 2010-80 providing additional relief for nonqualified deferred compensation plans covered under § 409A.

November 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in Ohio has tossed out parts of a legal challenge to the health care reform law, but kept alive a...

November 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in Ohio has turned aside arguments in a stock-drop suit that Fifth Third Bancorp committed a fiduciary breach when it...

November 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued trustee Colette Mordo for alleged misuse of more than $4.6 million in plan assets of the...

November 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration announced that the owner of Philadelphia Pension Planning Corp. was sentenced to 15 months...

November 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Federal regulators on Monday released a long-awaited rule to require more disclosures about target-date funds.

November 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – On Friday the IRS issued Notice 2010-84, containing guidance for 401(k) and 403(b) plans about in-plan Roth rollovers. 

 

November 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – On Friday the Internal Revenue Service provided some additional guidance on funding relief for multiemployer plans. 

November 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has upheld a lower court ruling that the minor child of a woman who pleaded guilty to killing the child’s...

November 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – FirstFed Financial Corp. employees have filed a stock-drop suit alleging the bank kept company stock in its employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) after...

November 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A New Jersey state appellate court has given a female plaintiff permission to move forward with allegations her former employer fostered a gender-based...

November 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In Revenue Procedure 2010-48, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provides guidance to drafters and users of pre-approved IRAs.

November 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Pulp and paper manufacturer AbitibiBowater has agreed to retain all four of its defined benefit pension plans as part of its bankruptcy reorganization.