Compliance

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 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 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...

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...

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 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 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 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 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that JPMorgan Chase & Co. and predecessor banks, including Chemical...

April 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Utah Supreme Court has found that Utah law requiring the amount of workers' compensation benefits to be reduced by Social Security benefits...

April 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three federal agencies on Tuesday put out a formal call for public comment about how best to formulate rules governing coverage of mental...

April 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At a meeting with reporters on Friday, Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Montana) said he will temporarily set aside talks on a...

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

April 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawmakers on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee on Tuesday considered the issue of whether the penalties contained in federal law are...

April 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has announced a term sheet agreement with Daimler AG on what the nation's private pension insurer called...

April 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - House Democrats have introduced legislation that they claim would "help the nation's health and safety agencies to hold unscrupulous employers accountable for exposing...

April 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senate Republicans blocked immediate action Thursday morning when a vote was called for on Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius' nomination as Health and Human...