Compliance

November 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Texas plan sponsors looking for some assistance in dealing with federal and state health laws can tune into a free webcast this week.

November 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has cleared a paper company of wrongdoing in denying severance benefits of about $300,000 from a top hat plan...

November 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Voters in Arizona, Florida, and California on November 4 agreed to state constitutional amendments to specify only marriage between a man and a...

November 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a Supplemental Final Rule that provides additional background and analysis for the department's No-Match Rule.

November 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Newark, Delaware, power company did not have to tell workers when it converted its defined benefit pension plan to a cash balance...

November 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Massachusetts has decided that two former Boston Scientific Corp. employees who sold more company stock than they purchased did...

November 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that the lack of language in a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) assigning survivorship benefits to an ex-spouse...

November 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Massachusetts has ruled that John Hancock Life Insurance Co. cannot demand that a pension plan trustee suing it in...

November 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), the National Business Group on Health (NBGH), and the American Benefits Council (ABC) have filed friend-of-the-court briefs reiterating...

November 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that on October 31, 2008, the United States District Court for the district of Massachusetts entered...

November 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has moved forward several fiduciary breach claims against Comcast Corporation for its handling...

November 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has announced that the maximum insurance benefit for participants in underfunded pension plans terminating in 2009 is...

October 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has shot down a highly-compensated former employee's attempt to limit the offset of his pension plan...

October 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The majority of U.S.-based employers in a recent survey said they want to continue to provide employee health care coverage, but do not...

October 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that a plan sponsor cannot rely on Florida state law to sue Merrill Lynch for allegedly aiding...

October 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to Segal Company, Section 211 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA), signed by President Bush on October 3, amends Section 132...

October 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A health plan trade group has asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to delay the deadline for filing excise tax returns and payments...

October 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has sentenced the owner of a Reno-based technology firm to a year in prison for embezzling approximately $128,000 from the...

October 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The fiduciaries of BP Corp. North America Inc.'s retirement plans have accused Northern Trust Co. of breaching their fiduciary duties by not disclosing...

October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In prepared testimony and a series of questions following, the executive director of the nation's private pension plan insurer tried to give lawmakers...