Compliance

December 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Kentucky has cleared an employer of charges it violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) by not including...

December 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - San Francisco officials trying to defend their ordinance mandating employers to contribute to certain employees' health care costs have asked a federal appellate...

December 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just over a year to the day after Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials first proposed a series of procedures for correcting income inclusion...

December 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has given drugstores and pharmacies some more time to gear up for new flexible spending account processing requirements.

December 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas has determined that Embarq Corp. and its former wireless company owner Sprint Nextel Corp....

December 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers' groups are watching a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide whether federal mandates for protections against pregnancy discrimination - including...

December 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Nortern District of Texas has denied class action certification for a case in which a hospital employee...

December 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bush Administration lawyers have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to turn away an employer's attempt to appeal a $46-million award in a participant...

December 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A U.S. Congressman has proposed a unique way to spend the remaining $350 billion of that $700 billion bailout.

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A deceased life insurance plan participant's designation of her daughter as a beneficiary was valid and the daughter is entitled to the policy's...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest bulletin from the Internal Revenue Service, IR-2008-134, reminds low- and moderate-income workers they still have time to take steps to get...

December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has let stand an arbitrator's decision under the Halliburton Dispute Resolution Plan, finding...

December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has determined an employee who claimed a coworker's perfume aggravated a lifelong medical...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has accused a Bismarck, North Dakota, manufacturer of wastewater treatment systems and equipment and its owners of...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Republican U.S. Senator has added her voice to the chorus of those calling for changes in the rules governing required minimum distributions...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-North Dakota) again questioned the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's stance on easing the funding requirements for pension plans in a...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Texas has ruled that lawyers for a participant challenging his employer's cash balance plan deserve fees, but cut the...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S.   Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security   Administration (EBSA) has released Field Assistance Bulletin   (FAB) 2008-04, which provides guidance...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the Internal Revenue Service, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. on Tuesday released...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Tuesday released the 2008 Cumulative List of Changes in Plan Qualification Requirements to be used primarily by...