Compliance

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In overturning a lower court ruling, the Minnesota Court of Appeals found that a provision in an employer's employee handbook saying workers fired...

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri ruled in a summary judgment that Allstate Insurance Company's one-year moratorium on rehiring...

October 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Wednesday issued a final rule governing how employee benefit plans can properly offer electronic benefit elections, consents...

October 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced the 2007 cost-of-living adjustment for social security and supplemental security income benefits will be 3.3%.

October 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Wednesday unveiled the maximum benefit and contribution limits on qualified retirement plans for 2007.

October 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling that two participants in employer-sponsored prescription drug benefit plans do not have a...

October 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a request to review an order from the Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission...

October 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though 409A non-qualified deferred compensation plan sponsors have been expected to have their Ps and Qs in order since 2005, the latest...

October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Workers' Compensation Appeals Board has held that an employer is liable for an employee's out-of-network medical costs since it failed to...

October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has announced it has filed a lawsuit against fiduciaries of the Agway Inc. 401(k) Plan for imprudently investing...

October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued an advisory opinion that supports taking pension plan liabilities into account when setting out an investment...

October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 401(k) participants have won approval to proceed with their fiduciary breach lawsuit against their employer alleging the plan improperly made matching contributions with...

October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a woman whose claims that an individual retirement account (IRA) was exempt...

October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio has ruled that a debtor's payment to repay a 401(k) loan does not...

October 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Jurors in a Pennsylvania court determined that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. violated state labor laws by forcing employees to work during breaks and off...

October 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled that a pension plan administrator erred in denying benefits to the...

October 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maryland's highest court has upheld an injunction blocking officials from cutting the Medicaid benefits to almost 3,000 children and pregnant women who are...

October 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court's ruling that two female employees whose office was monitored with a hidden camera...

October 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's pension watchdog said that pension schemes that accept new participants for lump sum death benefits only when the scheme has already...

October 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that the Unisys Corp. breached its fiduciary duties by telling a dozen former workers that they could get...