Compliance

September 3, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Merrill Lynch’s WealthBuilder Plan did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) because it was a top-hat plan, a federal judge...

September 2, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A selection of the 44 comments received by the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) about its pending fee-disclosure rule shows broad support for...

September 2, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court in Illinois has ruled that participants of the Antioch Company Employee Stock Ownership Plan are not time-barred from moving forward...

September 2, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in Oklahoma has cleared a 401(k) plan administrator of wrongdoing in a dispute over whether the employer should be forced...

August 31, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A letter to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) from five key lawmakers urges the agency to require service...

August 31, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A U.S Bankruptcy Court has approved a reorganization plan for auto-part supplier Visteon that will see all of the company’s pension plans remain...

August 31, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has assumed responsibility for the underfunded pension plan covering more than 2,300 former employees and retirees of...

August 31, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Pfizer Inc. did not breach its Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) responsibilities by giving an employee incorrect information about her stock options...

August 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge has tossed out a stock drop case against Bank of America (BofA) that had alleged numerous fiduciary breaches in connection with...

August 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In response to the U.S. Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration’s interim final rule on fee disclosure, the American Society of Pension...

August 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in Atlanta has given preliminary approval to a $5.5 million-settlement of a stock drop lawsuit against Beazer Homes USA.

August 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appellate court has ruled that a deaf UPS clerk should be able to press forward with his lawsuit alleging the shipper...

August 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is looking for some input on Roth 401(k)s.

 

August 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In addition to simply trying to avoid paying normal taxes, abusive workplace retirement plan schemes also are frequently designed to overly benefit highly...

August 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefit Security Administration has issued a proposed rule that would supersede the existing procedure governing the filing and...

August 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States has asked a federal court to permanently bar a California man from promoting alleged sham pension-plan and welfare-benefit-plan tax fraud...

August 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in North Carolina has moved forward a claim that Bank of America (BoA) unlawfully eliminated, or cut back, the separate...

August 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U. S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has released the agenda for the upcoming joint hearing...