Compliance

February 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Wisconsin Congressman has proposed a measure increasing small business incentives and reducing administrative requirements to start SIMPLE IRAs or 401(k) plans.

February 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Reversing its previous stance, the Waco, Texas, 10th Court of Appeals held on January 30 that former Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Chad Hennings...

February 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has thrown out a lower court ruling that a law firm violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)...

February 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal   judge in Missouri has cleared the way for participants in ABB   Inc.'s 401(k) plan to move forward with their...

February 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A profit-sharing plan participant's fiduciary breach suit against the plan's broker was filed after the three-year statute of limitations called for under the...

February 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - International Paper has agreed to a $5.2 million out-of-court settlement in a personal injury lawsuit arising out of a 2006 auto accident involving...

February 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has found a former 401(k) plan participant alleging a loss of income due...

February 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The family of a dead Virginia paramedic killed in a freak defibrillator accident won the right to pursue its civil suit over the...

February 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because John Hancock Life Insurance Co. could be judged to have been a fiduciary in a Troy, Michigan, law firm's 401(k) plan, the...

February 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Kentucky state Senate has approved a bill banning Kentucky's eight public universities and other state agencies from offering benefits to domestic partners...

February 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has determined it was an error for a federal district court to decide a court-ordered child...

February 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Legal Arizona Workers Act, which calls for suspension and revocation of licenses of businesses that knowingly employ unauthorized workers, has been upheld...

February 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has completed proposed revisions to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and will...

February 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has thrown out a lawsuit by a former IBM employee over his pension benefits after ruling the...

February 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts recently held that employer W.R. Grace and Co. and State Street Bank and Trust...

February 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by federal employees in Alaska and Hawaii claiming their pension calculation is discriminatory compared to...

February 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has remanded a health plan participant's suit for breach of fiduciary duty...

February 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While allowing retirees to move forward with their lawsuit seeking reimbursement of health care expenses incurred after their employer benefits were cut off,...

February 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kentucky state appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling that the Lexington Urban County government underfunded its police and firefighter pension...

February 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York appellate court has decided that same-sex marriages validly performed out-of-state must be legally recognized, just as the law recognizes those...