Compliance

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 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) - 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 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 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 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 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...

August 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled that a spin-off company cannot be held liable for misrepresentation of...

August 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 3rd Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled that a company did not breach its fiduciary duties by failing to tell a former...

August 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission may have backed away from its hedge fund registration rule, but the regulator's short-lived attempt apparently has...

August 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - San Francisco voters are set to decide later this year whether the California city will become the first US municipality to require firms...

August 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that accidental death and dismemberment claims for a man who completely...

August 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer seeking to terminate more than one pension plan as part of its case before a US Bankruptcy Court should consider all...