Compliance

April 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Connecticut state senators have approved a measure expanding the state’s existing workplace smoking ban so that it applies regardless of the number of...

April 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor’s Web page on health care reform now contains a page of frequently asked questions (FAQs) about health care reform...

April 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that pension plan administrators deserve a bit more respect for their plan document interpretations than they have...

April 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has begun mailing postcards to more than four million small businesses and tax-exempt organizations to make them aware of...

April 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in New York has tossed out a stock drop lawsuit against Wyeth Corp., ruling that the company was entitled to...

April 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona has approved a $34 million settlement of claims Avnet Inc. violated the Employee Retirement...

April 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has named a heavy hitter to head a new consumer financial education initiative.

April 16, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A Florida man was convicted by a Detroit federal court jury of charges that he embezzled more than $5.3 million from more than...

April 16, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The state of Oregon’s highest court has held that employers are under no legal obligation under state law to hire a medical marijuana...

April 16, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – President Obama has signed into law a measure extending the 65%, 15-month COBRA premium subsidy to workers involuntarily terminated through May 31.

April 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Beverly Enterprises has agreed to settle for $6.25 million claims that it caused its 401(k) plan to incur excessive fees.

April 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee has scrapped plans to hold a hearing on a provision in the health care reform law...

April 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has announced it will no longer publish opinion letters to provide fact-specific guidance to employers...

April 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that Marina Stengart was justified in expecting that e-mails she exchanged with her lawyer via a...

April 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. House was slated to vote Wednesday on legislation providing that employer-provided cell phones not be treated by the Internal Revenue Service...

April 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A plan's review committee did not abuse its discretion when it denied a participant's request to change the beneficiary of his qualified joint...

April 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in Indiana has granted final approval to an estimated $180-million settlement between Rohm & Haas and about 18,000 participants who...

April 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. District Court of the District of Massachusetts has dismissed charges that State Street violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by...

April 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Health and Human Services says application forms will be ready in June for a new, temporary federal program, in which...

April 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A female truck driver for Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. who claims she was fired due to a discriminatory belief that women are incapable...