Compliance

February 14, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with questions on already-issued guidance about nonspouse rollover rules, regulators have further clarified several issues including whether a plan is required to...

February 13, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has reversed a lower court decision that threw out a $200,000 age discrimination jury award and ordered the verdict...

February 13, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Treasury have released guidance on the estimated tax penalty for citizens or residents of the United States...

February 13, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A case now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court may decide whether home-health care agencies are required to pay their workers the minimum...

February 13, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that Titan Distribution Inc. wrongfully refused to hire an applicant based on a physical examination...

February 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A University of Toledo employee who took a loan from her profit-sharing retirement plan account before filing for U.S. Bankruptcy Court liquidation must...

February 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has gotten a court-appointed independent fiduciary to manage a Fernandina Beach, Florida executive search firm's pension plan.

February 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Segal has issued a reminder that the Department of Labor's (DoL) guidance on new requirements for individual benefit statements force plan sponsors to...

February 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has announced that investment managers of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plans can execute cross-trades if certain...

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service officials have announced an initiative aimed at providing relief for rank-and-file employees affected by their companies' issuance of backdated and...

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Pennsylvania heavy plate and structural fabricator was within its rights when it reduced a worker's benefits by forcing the employee to resign...

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California CPA firm was ordered by a federal district court in Atlanta to make a restitution payment of $5,000 to the employee...

February 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A potentially huge gender discrimination lawsuit against retailer Wal-Mart Stores can move forward as a class action, a federal appellate court ruled Tuesday,...

February 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush's latest budget proposal includes an end to the tax-exempt status of employer-provided health insurance payments.

February 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Lansing, Michigan City Council has passed an ordinance banning employment discrimination based on "irrelevant characteristics," including a person's source of income and...

February 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) has fined four Fidelity broker-dealers a combined $3.75 million for faltering on some of their recordkeeping...

February 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought...

February 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While plan sponsors and other fiduciaries must exercise prudence in choosing a fiduciary investment adviser and periodically monitor the adviser's abilities and qualifications,...

February 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senators may have overwhelmingly approved a bill that includes a provision limiting non-qualified deferred compensation programs (NQDC), but the NQDC provision may...

February 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a 2004 amendment barring same-sex marriages prevents public employers from offering health benefits to same-sex...