Compliance

October 5, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has turned away a request by Nestlé Purina Petcare Co. to review an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

October 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)  has posted to its Web site Spanish versions of model notices required under the...

October 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Supreme Court has upheld Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's order to furlough state workers.

October 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An audit report claims the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) could do more to protect retirement plan assets from conflicts...

October 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law a bill requiring pension placement agents to register as lobbyists.

October 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Even though the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has already turned down a similar request, a second retirement services trade group has again...

September 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Senate has rebuffed an effort by a key Republican to overturn the provision of the recent health-care reform law exempting grandfathered...

September 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has charged that a Laguna Hills, California, firm diverted more than $920,000 in employee and employer contributions...

September 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Thirty states and the District of Columbia have enacted bans on texting while driving in recent years, but a new study suggests they haven't...

September 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – President Obama on Monday signed into law the Small Business Jobs Act, which included a provision allowing in-plan Roth conversions in 401(k), 403(b),...

September 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The price of student loan provider Sallie Mae’s stock may have gotten hammered during the economic downturn, but the decline was not severe...

September 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to overturn part of the recent financial reform bill exempting under the Freedom of Information Act...

September 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A California appeals court has found that a California worker’s common law claim for infliction of emotional distress resulting from a supervisor’s harassment...

September 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has unanimously approved its position on how participant loans should be reported on defined contribution plan financial...

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is offering health plan sponsors and insurers an enforcement grace period for compliance...

September 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has worked out an agreement with a Cleveland-based equipment manufacturer to bolster a pension plan for about...

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill which includes provisions allowing retirement plan participants to roll over their assets into in-plan...

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An employer breached its fiduciary duty to an employee by not taking additional steps to help her obtain copies of two resource tools...

September 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The University of Connecticut had the right to demote its former School of Engineering dean who repeatedly complained about school policies because the...

September 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Federal tax officials are asking for public comment on how to draft guidance about new health-care reform mandates against group health plans discriminating...