Court: Parental Rights Determined Health Cost Responsibility
April 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that the health care plan covering the adoptive father of a baby boy born with severe birth...
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Genetic Discrimination Bill Finally Clears the U.S. House
April 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill barring genetic discrimination by employers or health insurers by not hiring or refusing to provide coverage to those predisposed to certain...
Civil Unions Pass Senate Muster in NH
April 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A measure allowing same-sex unions cleared the New Hampshire Senate on Thursday, potentially making the state the fourth to allow such unions, the...
Employer Stock Fund Participant Must Have "Vested Benefits" for Fiduciary Breach Suit
April 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan said a former ProQuest employee lacks the standing to sue her former employer...
Verizon Cash Balance Plan Gets Court Sanction
April 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cash balance plans got another legal vote of confidence with a federal judge's ruling that Verizon Communications' cash balance program is not age...
Bank Benefits Denial Upheld After Computer Security Breach
April 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has upheld the denial of benefits to a former bank worker because he was fired for improperly accessing his...
Bill Introduced to Extend Employment Discrimination Protection to GLBTs
April 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill that would extend protections against employment discrimination to that based on sexual orientation or gender identity,...
Coca-Cola Pulls Back on Racial Bias Case Appeal
April 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court will not decide whether BCI Coca-Cola can be liable for the racially discriminatory actions of a supervisor at the...
DoL Asks For Advice on 401(k) Fee Disclosures
April 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration is asking for suggestions on how to best approach 401(k) fee disclosures by retirement...
Court: No Proof that Firing was Discriminatory
April 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuit by a former hotel manager with multiple sclerosis,...
Group: Congressional Negotiators Drop NQDC Limit
April 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. House and Senate negotiators hammering out a small business relief compromise tax bill have dropped a provision that would have limited the...
AK Steel Pension Miscalculation Claim Upheld
April 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling awarding at least $46.2 million to 1,250 former employees of AK Steel Holding Corp. who...
AK Steel Cash Balance Distributions Not Covered by PPA
April 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the Pension Protection Act (PPA) lifted the "whipsaw" calculation requirement from cash balance plan distributions, the change only applied after August 17,...
Employee Can't Get Back Insurance Premiums via ERISA Suit
April 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A woman whose employer failed to add one of her daughters as dependents on the employee's workplace insurance policy can't get back her...
Xerox Company Stock Suit Survives First Challenge
April 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Xerox Corp. employees suing the company over its handling of their 401(k) investments in shares of company stock fell short of proving their...
Boeing Excessive 401(k) Fee Suit Moves Beyond First Legal Round
April 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A federal judge has turned away a Boeing Co. request to throw out a lawsuit alleging it overpaid its 401(k) plan providers and...
NH Governor Backs Civil Union Legislation
April 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Hampshire Governor John Lynch announced Thursday he would sign legislation allowing civil unions for gay couples in the state, making New Hampshire...
Wal-Mart Held down Plan Contributions with 'Time Shaving' Scheme
April 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Wal-Mart employee in Philadelphia has filed a lawsuit against the giant retailer seeking class-action status , alleging it engaged in "illegal underpayment...
Qwest Absolved of ERISA Violation Allegations
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...
Court: Challengers Must Prove Plan Loss for Fiduciary Breach in ESOP Merger
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...