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March 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd has introduced a bill creating tax-advantaged Disability Savings Accounts (DSAs) to allow families with disabled members to better save...

March 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an unusually harshly-worded opinion critical of a lower court's ruling in a gender discrimination suit filed by a deputy U.S. Marshal, a...

March 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former sales representative for a Cincinnati-based industrial uniform rental and sales company who has been fighting his old employer over a noncompete...

March 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Pennsylvania has approved a $14 million settlement of a nine-year legal battle over allegations New York Life Insurance Co....

March 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A decision on a bill allowing West Virginia teachers to move their retirement savings from a state defined contribution system to the prior...

March 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has put on hold an order by a federal judge in Pennsylvania mandating that a Chicago-based railcar manufacturer rehire...

March 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The West Virginia Senate has passed a bill to regulate professional employer organizations (PEOs) that serve businesses and nonprofits in the state.

March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials have advised pension plan sponsors that they should continue using the guidance in Revenue Ruling 96-7 for mortality...

March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The U.S. House of Representatives has approved mental health care benefits parity legislation.

March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The District of Columbia City Council has put its stamp of approval on a bill that would require employers to furnish paid sick...

March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued new guidance regarding three areas of plan administration changed by the Pension Protection Act of 2006...

March 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Fidelity Investments agreed to pay an $8 million penalty in connection with charges 13 current...

March 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed two new rules under the Investment Company Act to allow exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to operate...

March 4, 2008 ((b)lines) - The new 403(b) regulations concerning plan transfers and contract exchanges both expand permissible transactions for participants and place controls on conditions of the...

March 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The New Jersey state Senate on Monday approved and sent on to the General Assembly a measure giving workers in the Garden State...

March 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey on February 22 announced higher civil fines against employers who violate federal immigration laws.

March 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that federal benefits law pre-empts state law in a class action lawsuit challenging Aetna's handling of eating disorder...

March 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida has determined a long-term disability plan administrator was not wrong in requiring objective...

March 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on Friday issued two question-and-answer (Q&A) guides providing technical assistance for employers and veterans on workplace...

March 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As the political season pumps up the rhetoric around what's going to be done for "the middle class" and (generally) to "the wealthiest...