Compliance

March 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS has announced it will soon issue opinion and advisory letters for pre-approved defined benefit plans that have been restated for Economic...

March 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is conducting an audio forum on its new determination letter program for qualified plans.

March 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), joined by the American Benefits Council, have filed a friend of the court brief urging the 2nd U.S....

March 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The health reform legislation contains a provision that will make long-term care insurance available to all Americans, who will be automatically enrolled with...

March 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) –The state of Hawaii is constitutionally mandated to provide health benefits to state and county employees, retirees and their dependents, but does not have...

March 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis has filed an amicus brief asking the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a trial...

March 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday afternoon approved 56 - 43 a package of changes to the health reform overhaul signed by President Obama...

March 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has granted an exemption allowing the Ford Motor Co. to transfer company securities to...

March 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Ohio’s Supreme Court has upheld a law restricting injured workers’ ability to sue their employers in intentional tort cases.

March 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appellate court has upheld a ruling throwing out a trust plan amendment changing the definition of surviving spouse for the purposes...

March 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has updated its frequently-asked-questions site dealing with EFAST2, the DoL electronic filing system for Form 5500 and...

March 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in Tennessee has allowed First Horizon National Corp. to ask a federal appellate court to resolve a still murky procedural...

March 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has announced that the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) has agreed to reforms to address abuses of the...

March 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a federal appellate court's decision that "unwritten purely verbal complaints" are not protected from employer...

March 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) reached an agreement with BorgWarner, Inc., to strengthen the pension plan of almost 3,000 former workers at...

March 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Just seven minutes after President Barack Obama signed into law the health reform bill passed by the U.S. House late Sunday night, attorneys...

March 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has found that Aon did not abuse its discretion by forfeiting non-qualified deferred compensation plan benefits of a former employee...

March 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has ruled that participants in the 401(k) plan sponsored by MEMC Electronic Material can move forward with their Employee Retirement...

March 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. House of Representatives has sent sweeping health reform legislation to President Obama to sign, but the health care reform debate is...

March 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor has released updated model notice packages to enable group health plans and employers to provide notice on the...