Compliance

April 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has cleared a telecommunications company of allegations of wrongdoing in connection with a former employee's rights to disability and retirement...

April 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that because there was "no loss" when a company merged two employee stock ownership plans...

April 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Auto-parts maker Collins & Aikman Corp. has agreed to a $96 million settlement with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) so that it...

April 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A large drop in the share price of a company's stock doesn't necessarily mean an employer should dump the company stock as a...

April 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maryland state officials have abandoned a two-year effort to get Wal-Mart Stores to pay more for employee health care.

April 13, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a case involving an employee of a South Wales college, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that monitoring employees' Internet...

April 13, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Illinois has concluded that a pension plan did not adequately consider a participant's argument that he had mailed a...

April 13, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Washington state House and Senate have each approved health care legislation aimed at establishing universal health care.

April 13, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Arkansas high court has revived a lawsuit by retail giant Wal-Mart against its former vice chairman, saying the company is entitled to...

April 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fearing that the pension plan covering about 1,300 Anchor Hocking CG Operating Company workers and retirees may be abandoned, the nation's private-sector pension...

April 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just because the nation's private-sector pension insurer has a ceiling governing the maximum benefit it can pay to participants in plans it takes...

April 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As many in the benefits community continue slogging through the 398-page release of the final 409A regulations, one analysis suggested it did not...

April 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has kept alive a fiduciary breach lawsuit by employees of Fifth Third Bancorp alleging the company improperly allowed continued retirement...

April 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge is scheduled to formally consider a settlement Friday in a major race discrimination case affecting some 20,000 FedEx workers that...

April 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A state Senate committee in Florida approved a measure that would give state mental hospital workers who spend most of their day working...

April 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have issued final regulations for the application of Section 409A on Nonqualified Deferred Compensation...

April 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that a worker can prove unlawful discrimination even if they were replaced by someone also protected under...

April 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by a female deputy sheriff who alleged she was illegally kept from moving to...

April 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a probationary police officer fired for allegedly destroying city property is not entitled to...

April 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson vetoed a measure raising the pension benefits of the state's legislators.