Compliance

February 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA) is extending the deadline for filing 5500 reports to August 28, 2006 for employers...

February 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that a deceased participant's beneficiary designation form was invalid, even though...

February 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Washington, DC has sentenced the former owner of an executive search firm to a year and a day in...

February 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Colorado House of Representatives committee essentially killed a bill that would have required large employers to spend a certain amount on health...

February 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Illinois state lawmaker has proposed allowing state employees to move their defined benefit retirement plan assets into a 401(k) plan.

February 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has ruled that supervisors' use of the word "boy" to refer to two African American employees could represent sufficient...

February 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has given the go-ahead to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to collect monetary assets on behalf of...

February 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After passing major pension reform bills last year, the US House of Representatives and the US Senate now face the task of reconciling...

February 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A court has rejected claims of workers paid through a staffing agency that they were entitled to an array of employee benefits because...

February 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have put out the final version of enforcement regulations for the administrative simplification provisions of the federal health information privacy law.

February 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division has ruled that an employer is obligated to investigate suspected criminal usage of the Internet...

February 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) announced Thursday that workers and retirees at Enron would get $133.9 million in cash distributed through the...

February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's ruling for Weyerhaeuser Company (Weyco), who fired employees after learning they...

February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Encouraged by efforts in other states to pressure large employers to boost their health coverage spending, Kentucky lawmakers are calling for the state...

February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Supreme Court has been asked to rule that writers' sexually crude comments and simulations while hashing out TV scripts could constitute...

February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former executive of Citigroup Inc., who has sued the bank for discrimination, has lost his bid to have his case tried in...

February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawmakers in New Hampshire killed a bill Wednesday that would have required companies with more than 1,500 employees to make no less than...

February 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York state's highest court has sided with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in declaring the city's anti-discrimination law unconstitutional because it...

February 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of New York has ruled that a participant cannot recover long-term disability benefits even though...

February 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Rhode Island has ruled that ExxonMobil Corp. does not owe additional life insurance benefits to...