Compliance

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 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 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 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 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 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...

January 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite a desire by many in the retirement services community for legal clarity in the continuing hot button issue of cash balance plans,...

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 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is inviting interested parties to file briefs and requests to participate in oral arguments for the board's...