Compliance

June 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alabama Governor Bob Riley on Tuesday signed into law a bill that makes health insurance more affordable for small businesses and their employees.

June 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Court of Appeal has ordered the Cintas Corporation to pay more than $1.18 million in back wages and interest to hundreds...

June 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has determined that a female receptionist who was fired for refusing to serve...

June 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Beginning June 21, you will have to show identification to get past the security checkpoint at airports.

June 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Florida has ruled that a deceased 401(k) plan participant's girlfriend is not entitled to half the approximately $450,000 in...

June 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has dealt civilian government workers a setback by ruling their workplace discrimination allegations generally do not represent valid constitutional...

June 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Beginning with distributions in 2009, the reporting of dividends on employer securities that are distributed from an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) under...

June 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal by AT&T of a lower court's $31.2-million verdict against the company in a...

June 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has turned away an appeal of an employee fighting for benefits under her employer's disability plan because she did...

June 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A ruling by a federal judge in South Carolina in a lawsuit alleging Duke Energy Corp.'s cash balance plan violated the Employee Retirement...

June 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Hampshire House and Senate negotiators finally reached an agreement on pension reform on Tuesday.

June 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A state appeals court has ruled that California's 24-visit cap on chiropractic treatments for workers compensation injuries is constitutional.

June 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) plans to sponsor another of its free compliance assistance seminars.

June 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aetna has agreed to a $250,000 settlement of a lawsuit over the extent to which it will cover treatment of eating disorders.

June 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what it called a precedential ruling, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that the decision to terminate a pregnancy...

June 3, 2008 ((b)lines) - In light of new final 403(b) regulations, (b)lines readers contemplate the options of plan termination or moving to an ERISA-governed plan and question...

June 3, 2008 ((b)lines) - As 403(b) plan sponsors continue to consider what investment options and vendors to offer to participants, it will be helpful to know what...

June 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has shifted its position and is telling companies they must allow shareholders to vote on a proposal...

May 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Minnesota has cleared an employer of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)-related wrongdoing by classifying some employees as overtime...

May 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington has ruled that an employee organization legally cannot establish or maintain a 403(b)...