Compliance

September 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have announced that active duty military reservists no longer have to pay the 10% early withdrawal fee as called for in...

September 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama approved the $445 million settlement in a class action suit filed against HealthSouth...

September 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators this week gave final approval to the much anticipated redemption fee rule amendments designed to help funds enforce bans against market...

September 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A House Committee voted Wednesday to approve a bill that would allow employers and employees put more money toward health savings accounts, as...

September 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that a morbidly obese person can only prevail in an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) discrimination lawsuit...

September 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has thrown out a lower court decision dismissing a sexual discrimination claim by a terminated Illinois hospital worker, determining...

September 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Department of Labor (DoL) officials on Tuesday released a proposed safe harbor rule covering default investment options chosen by retirement plan sponsors...

September 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A trial regarding an employee who was strip searched at the command of a prank caller questions what responsibility the McDonald's and McDonald's...

September 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Arkansas Court of Appeals has determined that an employee who was injured during a mandatory company retreat is entitled to workers' compensation...

September 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has allowed Frank Crosby to pursue an ERISA claim against Bowater Incorporated that...

September 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia ruled that a plan beneficiary is not entitled to attorneys' fees and...

September 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said an employer may have violated COBRA notification requirements in the case of...

September 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Several industry groups have complained bitterly to the US Department of Labor (DoL) over the proposed changes to Form 5500, particularly its more...

September 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a district court's dismissal of a jury award to a police officer who claimed...

September 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A UK tribunal backed the complaint of a former grocery store worker who claimed his employer refused to remove offensive graffiti on the...

September 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what it said was the first time a federal appellate court has considered the issue, the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals...

September 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The head of the Colorado Civil Rights Division said that an employer who fired an employee when he announced he wanted to have...

September 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASD has announced that it has fined Securities America, Inc. of Omaha, Nebraska, $2.5 million for failing to supervise a broker who NASD...

September 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California superior court judge chopped the $61-million verdict handed down in June against shipping company Federal Express in a discrimination suit to...

September 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California woman who walked away with a $1.7-million jury verdict in an unusual case involving allegations of on-the-job spanking has had new...