Compliance

May 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following the lead of lawmakers in Massachusetts and Vermont, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm unveiled a universal health care plan for her state Thursday...

May 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal jury awarded $1.3 million to a former Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. agent who said he was fired as a result of...

May 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Major League Baseball (MLB) did not discriminate against retired white players by giving pension...

May 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The former owner of an financial services firm accused of mismanaging pension funds will pay more than $125,000 in restitution to plan participants...

May 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a district court decision for Xerox Corporation in a challenge to benefit calculations under its...

May 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that a health plan administrator did not discriminate against a participant based on her...

May 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nevada regulators seconded the decision by state lawmakers last year to allow for prescription drugs to be purchased from Canada over the Internet...

May 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Flouting a judge's suggestion that a worker should only be reprimanded for using the Internet at work, a supervisor for the New York...

May 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It is discriminatory to deny same-sex couples family health and bereavements benefits if it is illegal for them to be married, a New...

May 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Alaska Senate passed a bill meant to iron out some of the problems with legislation creating a new pension plan for state...

May 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals determined that a district court inappropriately concluded that an employer's actions were not severe or pervasive...

May 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Virginia has denied a former employee's motion to enforce an order for his former...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the state wrongly forced thousands of retirees in a retention incentive program to pay contributions...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's insurer of private-sector pension plans on Friday announced that it had taken over a plan for 600 former workers at a...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee awarded an employee more than $100,000 after his employer defaulted on promises to...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A participant in a qualified plan for public employees of Texas failed to convince the US Tax Court that she should not pay...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Before submitting a determination letter application to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), plan sponsors can access forms and documents used by Employee Plans...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts Senate struck down Thursday a veto by the governor of a provision that would force an assessment of employers that do...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued a revenue procedure that revises and expands the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS).

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed with a disability plan participant that the law did not provide the plan administrator...