Compliance

January 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has determined that a new regulation governing the definition of normal retirement age...

January 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The administrator of an accidental death benefit plan was within its rights in deciding that the widow of a participant who died after...

January 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California has determined that a current participant in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)...

January 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to enact Pension Protection Act (PPA)-mandated changes, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has put out a proposed regulation generally barring...

January 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to enact Pension Protection Act (PPA)-mandated changes, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has put out a proposed regulation generally barring...

January 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush signed legislation on Monday that makes it easier for mutual funds and private pension funds to sell their investments in companies...

January 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Contrary to indications, President Bush has vetoed a bill that included an expansion of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for certain...

As Nevin Adams, Editor-in-Chief of PLANSPONSOR magazine, put it, with any new legislation, there's the "figuring out what's there," and there's the "aftermath (figuring out what we don't...

As Nevin Adams, Editor-in-Chief of PLANSPONSOR magazine, put it, with any new legislation, there's the "figuring out what's there," and there's the "aftermath (figuring out what we don't...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bradford P. Campbell, assistant secretary of labor for the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), on Monday announced that the...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations that provide employers sponsoring single-employer defined benefit plans with guidance regarding...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A federal judge has ruled that the widow of an accidental death benefit plan participant is not entitled to a payment since her...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it has initiated court action to protect the benefits of more than 1,700 workers and retirees...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it has initiated court action to protect the benefits of more than 1,700 workers and retirees...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A federal judge in the District of Columbia has cleared the way for a transsexual job applicant to pursue an employment discrimination suit...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A federal appellate court has thrown out its earlier ruling in a discrimination case against the United Parcel Service (UPS) and set out...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A day after the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California determined that San Francisco's new health care security ordinance is...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington has dismissed claims by a group of Washington Mutual employees that the company's...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin has approved a pension fund's suspension of retirement benefits for a former participant...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The Internal Revenue Service has updated its regulations on the tax treatment of cash balance plans to include changes made by the Pension...