November 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has limited the affirmative defenses Wachovia Bank may assert in suit brought by a group of pension funds over investments...
November 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in New Hampshire has given final approval of a $70.5-million settlement of a stock drop suit against Tyco International that...
November 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that companies under criminal investigation may -- subject to conditions -- retain counsel for their employees...
November 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in Pennsylvania has rejected claims by an AK Steel Corp. employee that the company failed in its obligation to tell...
November 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has scheduled a fiduciary education seminar for December 8 in St. Louis.
November 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A Kentucky appeals court has found McDonald’s Corp. is liable in the se.xual assault case of an employee detained by supervisors who were...
November 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued a final rule (T.D. 9472) on the Employee Retirement Income Security Act Section 204(h) notice requirements for...
November 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Two U.S. House members demanded that Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis give workers immediate access to information about the health of their pension...
November 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has some legislators talking about freezing executive compensation at firms that have...
November 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York's top court on Thursday rejected a Christian legal group's challenge to the provision of public employee benefits to same-sex couples legally...
November 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) today blasted the decision by the Obama Administration to withdraw the final regulations on investment...
November 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The long saga of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DoL) hotly debated investment advice rule took another twist Thursday when the DoL’s Employee...
November 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to take an appeal of a long-running pregnancy discrimination case that has already drawn four formal opinions...
November 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to take an appeal of a long-running pregnancy discrimination case that has already drawn four formal opinions...
November 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. Treasury department officials adopted some of the changes suggested by the public for rules governing the tax status of stock granted...
November 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service is considering giving 403(b) plan participants the option to contribute to their plan accounts the dollar equivalent of unused...
November 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) announced Monday that it is giving itself until May 17, 2010, to...
November 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A Florida state senator has filed a bill (S.B. 660) that renames the Sunshine State’s defined contribution offering and forces all new...
November 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The nation’s private-sector pension insurer on Monday unveiled a final rule making it easier for returning service members to receive pension and...