Compliance

November 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued the 2009 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for...

November 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal   judge in Missouri handed retail giant Wal-Mart Stores a   resounding legal victory by swatting away a participant's   excessive...

November 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling by a lower court that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida...

November 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Senate adjourned for its Thanksgiving break this week without taking up a new pension aid proposal put forward by four Senators...

November 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senators on Wednesday unveiled a legislative package designed to help ease the financial strain on families and businesses due to the lagging...

November 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky accuses BP Corporation of reducing participants' accrued benefits when...

November 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday voted unanimously to improve mutual fund disclosure by requiring that funds provide investors with a...

November 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Wisconsin gave cash balance plan participants at S.C. Johnson & Sons Inc. only a limited victory by throwing out...

November 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer will release a final rule Tuesday dealing with releasing information about distress plan terminations.

November 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday reinstated a pension fund lawsuit on Monday that accused The Hartford Financial Services Group of concealing kickbacks...

November 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension plan insurer managed to trim its funding deficit for single-employer plans by nearly $2.5 billion over the past year.

November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former communications company employee battling in support of his stock-drop lawsuit suffered his second major legal setback when a federal appellate court...

November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor will publish a final rule on November 17 to update its regulations under the 15-year-old Family and Medical...

November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Representative Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-California), the senior Republican on the House Labor Committee, commended Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao for her...

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has found that a mutual fund company charged by a multi-employer plan of...

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the board of directors of The Employee Ownership Holding Co. of Stockton, California, and Fife, Washington,...

November 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official who has become the tax agency's public face on the IRS 403(b) regulations is scheduled to appear...

November 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A public fund trade group has posted a series of video files on the government's 403(b) regulations in light of the fast approaching...

November 12, 2008 (plansponsor.com) - A former benefits manager for Hitachi America, Ltd., was arrested Wednesday by federal authorities on charges he embezzled about $8 million from a...

November 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that a 401(k) plan sponsor did not engage in a prohibited...