Compliance

December 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled that a medical plan fiduciary or administrator has to sue in federal court to...

December 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For purposes of determining contributions to defined benefit plans and permitted disparity in defined contribution plans for the 2009 plan year, the taxable...

December 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) on Wednesday announced the availability of the 2008 Form M-1 annual report for...

December 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President George Bush will sign into law a bill suspending a requirement that seniors take a required minimum distribution (RMD) from retirement accounts...

December 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly chosen Mary Schapiro, CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission.

December 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008, awaiting President Bush's signature, will require important decisions by trustees of defined benefit pension...

December 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Issuing of a regulatory rule implementing amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) apparently ground to a halt at the Equal Employment...

December 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Now that the House and Senate have both, by unanimous consent, approved pension relief, the question is - Will the President sign it?

December 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has initiated court action to end the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Retirement Plan.

December 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A broad pension relief measure approved by U.S. House lawmakers that includes a one-year required minimum distribution moratorium also features a variety of...

December 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS issued a notice on Thursday announcing relief for 403(b) plans that do not have a written plan in place by January...

December 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A day after U.S. House lawmakers unanimously okayed a pension reform measure, the Senate followed suit with its own unanimous approval of the...

December 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has been hit with two new stock drop class action lawsuits alleging a fiduciary breach by continuing to...

December 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two Republican U.S. Senators have introduced proposals to delay enforcement of retirement plan required minimum distribution (RMD) rules because of the struggling economy.

December 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to Section 409A guidance issued Wednesday by the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), an employer is not required...

December 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 by unanimous consent.

December 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to assess the viability of expanding its securities lending program...

December 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that an investment adviser with the authority to make investment decisions and power of...

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...