Compliance

January 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that an employer with a terminated defined benefit plan improperly calculated lump-sum distributions using an outdated mortality...

January 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. House of Representatives has passed H.R. 476 that would strip Congressional pensions from lawmakers convicted of crimes such as bribery, fraud...

As regulators begin to tackle details of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA), a panel of Washington insiders says that plan sponsors have a perfect opportunity to...

January 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that foreign nationals who are not residents of Tennessee can be considered dependents under the state's...

January 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that a worker for a property management company who was ultimately diagnosed with prostate cancer had properly...

January 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bipartisan Congressional coalition has reintroduced a measure barring group health plans and insurers from not granting coverage for a healthy person or...

January 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has taken responsibility for four pension funds covering almost 900 current and former employees of Kaiser Aluminum &...

January 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) achieved $1.4 billion in results from actions to enforce the...

January 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois has affirmed a plan participant's charge that the owners of the company for...

January 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request to hear a case in which an appellate court decided a retiree could not...

January 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Keystone State is the latest site for a universal health care proposal offering affordable basic health coverage to small businesses and the...

January 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a case brought by a deferred compensation plan participant who claimed her former employer...

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has issued advisory opinion letter FLSA 2006-42, in which it decided that the position of IT Support Specialist...

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday approved by voice vote a measure that could limit the earnings corporate executives can defer into...

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has handed a business lobbying group a legal victory by upholding a lower court ruling that threw out a...

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has taken responsibility for the two pension plans of a now-liquidated maker of plastic automobile components.

January 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK pension regulators have banned the chairman of the Ericsson pension fund from getting involved with any trust-based pension after finding that he...

January 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is looking to take back the pensions of corrupt public officials - including none other than former Nutmeg...

January 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has taken responsibility for the pensions of more than 900 former employees of bankrupt Foss Manufacturing Co....

January 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cash balance moratorium plans considered by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as being in Cycle A according to a 2005 revenue procedure have...