Compliance

December 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Yellow Pages publisher R.H. Donnelley Corp. is now facing a lawsuit brought by 401(k) plan participants who claim the company should have discontinued...

December 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Clewiston, Florida-based U.S. Sugar has agreed to pay $15.9 million to settle a breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit brought by 4,000 current and...

December 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In implementing its initiative announced Monday to see how it can best facilitate the use of lifetime income investment vehicles in retirement plans,...

December 31, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor is suing the trustees and other fiduciaries of the employee stock ownership plans and eligible individual account plans...

December 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service has issued updates to the weighted average interest rates, yield curves, and segment rates used in funding calculations for...

December 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The head of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) will host a live public Web chat to discuss its...

December 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) on Monday waded into the ongoing debate over the need for lifetime retirement income products with word...

December 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Two months after they upheld a $21.5-million jury award in a long-running pension benefit termination case, justices at the Montana Supreme Court have...

December 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued Revenue Ruling 2009-40 providing the table of covered compensation for the 2010 plan year for use in...

December 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On Monday, December 7, the U.S. Department of Labor will make available video remarks by Secretary Hilda L. Solis outlining the department’s regulatory...

December 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico), Johnny Isakson (R-Georgia), and Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin) have introduced legislation that would require defined contribution plan sponsors...

December 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued the 2010 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for...

December 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Verizon retirees have filed a complaint for violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) charging that they and over two thousand...

December 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Supreme Court has slashed a jury's punitive damages award from $15 million to $1.9 million in a case against an employer...

December 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appellate court’s to-the-point ruling in an excessive fee case involving United Technologies Corp. (UTC) may not have been couched in elaborate...

December 1, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Melissa G. King, controlling owner of King Care LLC, has been charged with embezzling tens of millions of dollars from a union's benefits...

November 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The nation’s private-sector pension insurer on Monday announced plans to take over a 54%-funded pension plan for a bankrupt Michigan wheel manufacturer.

November 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Justices of the New Jersey Supreme Court have taken an appeal of a $10-million gender discrimination case turning on whether a human resources...

November 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A Florida court has determined that police and firefighters' certification pay should have been included in earnings for the purpose of calculating pension...

November 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. House Education and Labor Committee will conduct a hearing next Wednesday on the pensions and benefits that may be...