Compliance

January 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - After declaring that none of the six major insurance providers accused in a commission conspiracy were fiduciaries under the Employee Retirement Income Security...

January 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Ways and Means Committee considered legislation Wednesday that could reform 30-year-old Social Security laws some say are unfair to public workers.

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced a new version of Form 4461-A, "Application for Approval of Master or Prototype or Volume Submitter...

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a former employee's claims under Texas state law of negligence by her employer...

January 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The tax filing has barely started - and yet the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has already found it necessary to update its list...

January 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Chicago-based rail car manufacturer has asked a federal judge in Pennsylvania to delay implementing his order that the company reinstate more than...

January 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though a divorce decree reflected a bad address for a life insurance plan participant's ex-wife, the document still represented a qualified domestic...

January 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide on whether Kentucky's public employee retirement plan discriminates against older workers who become disabled.

January 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Bulletin 2008-1 provides updates and restatements of eight IRS revenue procedures that govern letter rulings, information letters, determination letters, and other...

January 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has affirmed an accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) plan administrator's decision to deny...

January 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - By a federal appellate court ruling the city of San Francisco won the right to implement its new law requiring employers to contribute...

January 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The owner and operator of a Salem, New Hampshire, business has been ordered to pay $100,000 to the company's profit sharing plan over...

January 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) announced it has sued Fifth Third Bank, adviser to the Operating Engineers Local 324 Pension Fund in...

January 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though some of its stock option grants were made at "suspicious times," shareholders of office supply retailer Staples did not prove officers...

January 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's decision that plan fiduciaries were not obligated to tell Thrift Plan participants...

January 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The South Carolina State Supreme Court has determined that an illegal immigrant who gained employment with the use of false documents is still...

January 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A federal judge in Philadelphia has cleared a building materials manufacturer of wrongdoing in firing a half dozen sales representatives for violating its...

January 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Because a 401(k) participant's widow had not yet married her husband when she signed a prenuptial agreement giving up her rights to her...

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)...