Compliance

May 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As lawmakers continued Tuesday to ponder how to reform the nation's health-care delivery system, one witness called for a "properly designed" limit on...

May 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has moved to assume responsibility for the underfunded pension plan covering 9,600 employees and retirees of LandAmerica Financial...

May 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors looking for insights on their fiduciary responsibilities can now get that information from the Labor Department without leaving their desks.

May 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Family and Medical Leave Act's (FMLA) requirement of a notice to the employer "as is practicable" does not guarantee a worker a...

May 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in California has rebuffed demands from JP Morgan Chase and Co. that it dismiss a lawsuit alleging mistakes that could...

May 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Considering that her boss has a well-used Blackberry clipped to his belt, it was no surprise that new U.S. Secretary of Labor (DoL)...

May 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) only requires overall plan level investment diversification, a group of General Motors defined contribution plan...

May 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS is not going to regulate 403(b) changes and not follow up, so plan sponsors can expect audits.

May 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maine Governor John Baldacci signed a bill Wednesday approving same-sex marriage, making the state the fifth to do so.

May 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has joined two fiduciary breach lawsuits by pension plans against JPMorgan Chase Bank that both allege wrongdoing...

May 1, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal district court has denied COBRA claims from an employee whose termination it said was a "sham."

May 1, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has found that AT&T Inc.'s pension plan administrator did not act improperly by...

May 1, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Insurer Unum has lost a decade-long disability benefits dispute after the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided a U.S. Supreme Court decision...

April 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer said Thursday it has taken over a pension plan covering more than 1,200 workers and retirees at a...

April 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Witnesses testifying Wednesday before a U.S. House committee argued that lawmakers needed to keep the basic employer-based health system in place, but fix...

April 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has given multiemployer plans another 60 days to make election regarding defined benefit plan funding relief as provided...

April 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Financial Services Committee has approved legislation enabling state and local governments to divest their public pension funds from companies with ties...

April 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in South Florida has thrown out virtually all of the allegations leveled against U.S. Sugar Corp. of Clewiston, Florida, in...

April 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit allege Abbott Laboratories cheated workers out of their retirement benefits when the company spun off its hospital...

April 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius has won Senate confirmation to serve as the nation's health and human services secretary.