Compliance

January 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A New Jersey appellate court has ruled that injuries a foreman plumber suffered while driving for coffee arose in the course of his...

January 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com)–A U.S. Senate committee has scheduled a January 20 hearing on the Obama Administration’s nomination of Joshua Gotbaum as director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty...

January 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com)–A Department of Labor (DoL) administrative law judge has rejected the appeal by a 401(k) plan administrator of an $86,500 civil penalty, ruling the administrator’s...

January 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A former retirement plan participant claiming he was terminated to prevent him from becoming vested in the plan has made his complaint too...

January 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com)–A federal judge in Massachusetts has rejected claims that a deceased 401(k) participant’s plan balance should have been paid to his estate instead of to...

January 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) will host a free Webcast January 21 at 1:00 p.m. on 2009 Form...

January 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Enforcement Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission has announced the newest members of its national leadership team as it undertakes its...

January 13, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) announced the publication of a final rule to protect employee contributions deposited to small pension and welfare...

January 13, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A temporary worker at an electronics manufacturing company can sue the employer for asking him prohibited questions about his health, even if the...

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has filed suit against the owners of a bankrupt Chicago-area company for diverting their employees’ health care...

January 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) has assumed responsibility for the underfunded pension plan covering nearly 13,000 former workers and retirees of Hartmarx...

January 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A New Jersey state appellate court has ruled that the female owner of a tire sales company can sue a customer's employer over...

January 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has assumed responsibility for three underfunded pension plans covering more than 675 workers and retirees of Mid-States...

January 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has assumed responsibility for two underfunded pension plans covering about 760 former workers and retirees of GB...

January 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Plan sponsors can now take full advantage of a new federal government system for online filing of the required annual report to the...

January 6, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The nation’s private-sector pension insurer has taken over the underfunded pension plan for more than 1,800 former employees and retirees of bankrupt specialty...

January 5, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released an in-depth primer on how taxpayers can voluntarily better comply with regulations governing documents for nonqualified...

January 5, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has updated its procedures for requesting determination letters on the qualified status of pension, profit-sharing, stock bonus, annuity,...

January 5, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has announced an $11.7-million agreement with appliance maker Whirlpool Corp. to shore up funding for one of...

January 5, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) said both Estimated Flat-rate premium filings and Comprehensive filings for plan years beginning in 2010 may now...