Compliance

September 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In addition to charging fees for their services, lawyers working on Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) cases are also allowed to include...

September 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of California's 2nd Division Court of Appeal has determined that non-competition agreements are invalid under California labor laws in a case...

September 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Louisiana has rejected claims that a health plan participant did not receive proper notice of a plan amendment or...

September 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled that Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. acted arbitrarily in its decision to refuse...

August 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a new proposed rule containing guidance on how hiring managers can legally target older...

August 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has issued explanations on how the Pension Protection Act (PPA) affects how employers decide if a Participant...

August 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) did not violate the Aviation and Transportation...

August 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio determined that a former employee of Marathon Ashland Petroleum failed to prove the...

August 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ordered that a Michigan auto parts manufacturer reinstate its retiree health benefit plan that covers 2,900 retirees, spouses and...

August 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have released final tax rules, which feature without significant changes proposed regulations governing deductions for payments to redeem employer securities held...

August 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Assembly has approved a bill that would eliminate private medical insurance plans and establish a statewide health insurance system that...

August 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Saying they wanted to give 403(b) plan sponsors and others associated with the plans more time to implement rules proposed in 2004, Internal...

August 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Saying they wanted to give 403(b) plan sponsors and others associated with the plans more time to implement rules proposed in 2004, Internal...

August 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Michigan appellate court has overturned a lower court ruling that a local pension board was not entitled to qualified legal immunity for...

August 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A woman who claims she was illegally fired as a driver for a Tennessee trucking firm after she became pregnant has lost her...

August 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) does not provide an employee on approved leave with...

August 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a jury's award of $300,000 in damages for a police lieutenant who claims he...

August 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that even if the estranged wife of a plan participant had a "colorable" claim...

August 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey state health officials will now release an annual report listing Garden State employers with at least 50 workers and/or dependents on...

August 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has cleared Lockheed Martin Energy Systems Inc. (LMES) of wrongdoing in connection with whether IT employees could roll their...