Compliance

May 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House GOP Savings Recovery Solutions Group wrote to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to oppose proposals that would...

May 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – After hearing  testimony in the previous year regarding disparities for women and minorities regarding their access to and utilization of retirement plans, specifically...

May 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2010 ERISA Advisory Council will study whether the audit requirement and financial reporting model contained in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

May 3, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Internal Revenue Service Revenue Ruling 2010-13 publishes the State average premium rates for the small group market for purposes of calculating the section...

May 3, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) on Monday announced a $17.5-million funding agreement to bolster a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based supermarket chain’s pension program.

April 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The nation’s private sector pension insurer has taken over an underfunded pension program from a Montgomery, Alabama, banking company.

April 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in Washington has ruled that employees suing to force an employer to allow a Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)...

April 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has dismissed charges that Unisys Corporation and Fidelity Management Trust Company caused participants in Unisys’ retirement savings plan to pay...

April 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appellate court has struck down an employment lawsuit waiver signed by a Michigan couple when they applied for paramedics jobs in...

April 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Aon Corp. has agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit alleging 401(k) participants lost tens of millions of dollars when Aon’s...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has announced plans to change a 2007 mandate to require that employers give participants more target-date fund...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service announced that the new health reform law immediately allows employers with cafeteria plans to permit employees to begin making...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri has approved a $925,000 settlement of a lawsuit claiming NovaStar Financial continued to...

April 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in California did a perfectly acceptable job in certifying as a class action a gender discrimination case against Wal-Mart, a...

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...