Compliance

April 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A sexual harassment lawsuit by a former assistant on the hit NBC sitcom "Friends" has been dismissed by the California Supreme Court.

April 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressional lawmakers have reportedly targeted their May 29 Memorial Day recess as the latest in a series of informal deadlines by which they...

April 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has decided that participants in an Aon Corp. retirement plan may continue with...

April 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed into law a measure that will allow the state's active black police officers who were denied access to...

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the firing of an employee experiencing side effects of a diabetes medication was...

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has announced it has expanded and simplified the Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program (VFC) that allows employers and professional...

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sitting as a group with all its judges participating, the majority of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that the...

April 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Philadelphia has refused to throw out a $2.9 million 2005 jury verdict to four while male Philadelphia School District...

April 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has thrown out a pension plan change made just before the company's bankruptcy that pumped up benefits for certain...

April 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congress is considering a far-reaching reform that would give insurers a new right to scale back benefits by pre-empting state-mandated offerings.

April 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 7th Circuit US Court of Appeals has determined that a plan trustee did not breach his fiduciary duties by allowing participant investment...

April 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that an employee's violent behavior after his Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) request was denied was...

April 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have released guidance on the parameters of the standard Medicare Part D drug benefit for 2007.

April 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that a bank director was, in fact, a bank employee so he was prohibited from working...

April 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Deducting amounts from the salaries of exempt employees, or requiring them to reimburse the company, for damage to or loss of company equipment...

April 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, on behalf of itself and a group of civil rights organizations, filed a brief urging...

April 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A prominent US Senate Republican leading the ongoing effort to hammer out a House-Senate pension reform compromise bill predicted the conference committee's work...

April 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California judge has denied class certification to a group of some 2,800 employees suing Home Depot for back overtime pay.

April 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio dismissed a claim against Putnam Fiduciary Trust Co. as directed trustee of Cardinal...

April 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney on Wednesday signed into law an uninsured health care bill, but rejected a key provision assessing a $295-per worker...