Compliance

March 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Washington state Senate has passed Senate Bill No. 5688, a measure that would expand the rights and responsibilities of domestic partners who...

March 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 26 comment letters the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) received when it recently gave the public until last week to comment on...

March 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tacked onto a U.S. House bill aimed at regulating tobacco products is legislation to make changes to the Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP).

March 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The recently enacted stimulus bill contains a number of significant changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that will affect...

March 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Federal Reserve System's Board of Governors has amended Regulation Z to exempt most retirement plan loans from the disclosure requirement of the...

March 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) said Friday it will publish a final rule that amends its regulation on Annual Financial and Actuarial...

March 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Rhode Island state House study commission has endorsed the building blocks for a new and less expensive retirement package for state employees...

March 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) announced Wednesday that the Senate Finance Committee, which he chairs, will take up comprehensive health care reform legislation...

March 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted to deny a request by business groups for all of the judges to rehear their...

March 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut dismissed a case brought by a former employee who says he was fired for...

March 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Burger King Corporation will pay $85,000 and furnish significant non-monetary relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment...

March 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer on Tuesday took over the pension plan covering 88 former employees of a New York City building service...

March 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's high court has agreed to consider whether the level of fees paid to investment advisers to mutual fund companies can violate...

March 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Another employer hit with a 401(k) excess fee suit has walked off with a decisive victory.

March 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement with Consulting Services Group (CSG) of Memphis, Tennessee, and its affiliated broker/dealer which...

March 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling that a former pension trustee committed a fiduciary breach by undervaluing real estate...

March 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has scheduled four South Florida conferences for plan sponsors about the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)...

March 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Oklahoma House members voted unanimously to approve a measure that would expand the state's Insure Oklahoma program.

March 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Joyce Kahn, the Manager of Voluntary Compliance at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), is conducting a short, voluntary, and anonymous survey.

March 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has ruled that retirement plan participants did not prove that Fifth Third Bancorp...