Compliance

September 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In Notice 2009-75, the Internal Revenue Service provides guidance in the form of a Q&A on the tax treatment of eligible rollover distributions...

September 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it will hold a roundtable about securities lending and short sale issues later this...

September 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer's decision to include in the disability chapter of its summary plan description (SPD) a mention of a one-year limit on worker...

September 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Multiemployer plan sponsors who want to revoke a prior Section 432 funding status election now have an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance document...

September 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Rhode Island state judge has declared that the Providence Retirement Board can cut or reduce a retiring worker's pension under a law...

September 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued final rules on comparable employer contributions to employee health savings accounts (HSAs) and filing excise taxes...

September 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging a New York state teachers group breached its fiduciary duty by paying "kickbacks" to ING...

September 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal tax officials have put out a final rule (TD 9459) allowing government plans carrying out 401(a)(9) required minimum distributions to prove their...

September 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors on Tuesday got a bit of a roadmap from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) on how...

September 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As the nation turns its attention to the three-day Labor Day weekend, the White House is talking about retirement security.

September 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) threw his support behind President Obama's announcement of initiatives to help Americans increase their personal savings on...

September 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has rebuffed efforts by two credit rating agencies to seek constitutional free speech protection for their evaluations...

September 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reopened a case in which retirees of LG Philips Displays are seeking to be reinstated...

September 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Investment Company Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to endorse the longstanding legal framework that most courts have...

September 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California appellate court has ruled that an employer is legally responsible for an employee's auto accident when the worker was returning home...

September 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has thrown out a stock drop lawsuit against drugmaker Schering-Plough, but has permitted plaintiffs to strengthen its allegations of wrongdoing...

September 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Connecticut has ruled that a drug company improperly forced out its chief patent counsel after the lawyer reached age...

September 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA) has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) seeking removal of...

September 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a regulation to assess civil penalties against plan sponsors of multiemployer defined benefit pension plans that...

September 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A San Francisco Superior Court judge overturned unpaid furlough days that were ordered for more than 6,000 employees of the State Compensation Insurance...