Compliance

December 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – When the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) put about 50 Form 5500 filings to the test recently, the plans filing the annual reports flunked...

December 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has denied review of a federal appeals court's ruling that Oneida Ltd. could not discharge during its bankruptcy reorganization...

December 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Scott C. Albert, chief, Division of Reporting and Compliance for the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), said the department expects...

December 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a high school mathematics teacher is entitled to workers compensation benefits for an injury she suffered...

December 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal prosecutor has won his fight to conceal emails he sent to his attorney over the government's computers, the National Law Journal...

December 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court said it will determine how much privacy workers can expect when they send text messages or e-mails from employer...

December 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. House lawmakers on Friday approved a sweeping financial reform measure which would, among other things, require hedge funds to register, beef up...

December 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has given plan sponsors more time to adopt plan amendments to implement a variety of Pension Protection Act...

December 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service has issued guidance on the application of 409A(a) to changes made to nonqualified deferred compensation plans to comply with...

December 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service is offering a way for 403(b) plan sponsors to feel secure that their plan documents will comply with new...

December 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In an advisory opinion, the U.S. Department of Labor addressed whether investment advisers to the mutual funds underlying target-date funds used in a...

December 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Justices at the U.S. Supreme Court have rebuffed requests to take an appeal of a court decision allowing employees with workers compensation claims...

December 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appellate court has breathed new life into a suit brought by a former United Airlines HR analyst who claims she was...

December 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The chief of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) at the U.S. Department of Labor said Wednesday that her agency plans to release...

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...