Compliance

October 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Golden Gate Restaurant Association has asked all of the judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear a ruling...

October 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A divided en banc Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court panel ruled 4-3 that the testimony of two doctors was enough to prove that a workers'...

October 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Treasury Deputy Benefits Tax Counsel Helen H. Morrison told attendees at a recent Webinar that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will waive the...

October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a federal appellate court ruling, an Illinois psychologist got more time to pursue her legal claims for assets missing from her 401(k)...

October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a letter signed by 33 403(b) practitioners and advisers, two attorneys requested an extension of the effective date for complying with the...

October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has sued Zenith Capital LLC of Santa Rosa, California, and its executives for investing the assets of...

October 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a company stock suit, the U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a settlement restoring $8,590,000 to participants of the Agway Inc. 401(k)...

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has taken over the pension covering employees of a Portland, Oregon pulp and lumber company.

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressman George Miller (D-California) took the House Committee on Education and Labor on a field trip today.

October 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Target Corp. worker lost her challenge to a disability benefits denial when a federal judge said the plan administrator reasonably determined...

October 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Washington state Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday that the Port of Seattle owes retired union workers health care benefits agreed to during...

October 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has declared that the former manager at a Pennsylvania bank was not protected from firing in an embezzlement probe because...

October 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators have released final rules governing implementation of the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act that governs the length of hospital stays...

October 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sponsors of and advisers to 403(b) plans recently got some clarification regarding compliance directly from one of the "architects" of the new regulations.

October 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators have reaffirmed their position that the goal for investments in Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plans must be to generate...

October 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced Thursday the contribution limits for defined contribution plans increased for 2009.

October 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two Congressional lawmakers have formally called on the Treasury Department to suspend the tax penalty for taxpayers who do not take the minimum...

October 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials on Tuesday released executive compensation standards for companies involved in any of several phases of the economic recovery bill recently signed...

October 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A co-architect of some of the most significant pension legislation of the past decade has weighed in on the new withdrawal proposals.

October 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has published a "request for information" (RFI) to assist the department in implementing...