Compliance

October 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Massachusetts has ruled that a third-party administrator (TPA) for two health plans cannot be blamed as a "functional fiduciary"...

October 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a $21.4 million award in a case filed by 15 retired Montana Power Co. executives whose supplemental...

October 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has let stand its previous decision that "unwritten purely verbal complaints" are not protected from employer...

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Social Security Administration announced there will be no cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2010 for monthly social security and supplemental security income (SSI)...

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has announced cost of living adjustments applicable to dollar limitations for pension plans and other items for Tax Year...

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the wake of a Congressional bill giving state and local governments authority to divest assets or bar investment in Sudan-connected companies, a...

October 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials announced that the Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act (WRERA) does not require plan sponsors to notify participants...

October 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Saying that a Bush Administration-proposed disclosure rule for annual union financial reports was too onerous, the Department of Labor (DoL) has scrapped the...

October 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Wisconsin school district accused of failing to accommodate the request of a teacher afflicted with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) to move to...

October 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday approved its health care overhaul measure by a 14-9 vote.

October 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A long-running legal drama over whether a workplace email accusing a manager of violations of an employer's travel and expense policy constituted libel...

October 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law a bill that recognizes same-sex marriages entered into in other states, Business Insurance reports.

October 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York state appellate court has agreed with lower courts that a Xerox Corp. data entry employee should have her workers' compensation...

October 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin has dismissed a lawsuit accusing Harley-Davidson and certain of its executives of breaching...

October 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - JPMorgan Chase & Co. cannot be held liable for mismanagement that may have occurred before the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized Washington Mutual,...

October 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Taft-Hartley plan is not permitted to recoup more than $13,000 in wrongly paid health plan claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security...

October 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com - Three pension participants who sued their employer over a pension calculation dispute can't pursue their claims because they have no written proof the...

October 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has finalized rules governing single-employer minimum funding mandates as well as single-employer plan benefits limits based on funding...

October 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a recent letter, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius assured lawmakers that her department, along with the Department of Labor...

October 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Saying they saw "sufficient evidence of reprehensible or recklessly indifferent conduct" by retailing giant Wal-Mart to support a nearly $2-million verdict in a...