Compliance

December 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK authorities have announced that employers operating defined benefit plans would pay a total of £575 million ($1.01 billion) to finance the pension...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Delaware has ruled that a pension plan retiree may not substitute his current wife for...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill to ease up on some of the requirements governing health savings accounts (HSAs) has been introduced in the US House.

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Motivated by the fact that their former House colleague Randy "Duke" Cunningham will be able to keep his pension benefits after pleading guilty...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives approved today by a vote of 294-132, HR 2830, or the Pension Protection Act.

December 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi has ruled that a voluntary early retirement plan sponsor was correct in denying...

December 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Connecticut federal judge has refused to throw out criminal charges against a defendant who was involved in a scandal with the state...

December 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America (PSCA) has taken issue with an IRS revenue ruling concerning profit sharing plans that include medical reimbursement...

December 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court's ruling for an employer who terminated an employee for not providing...

December 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - House Education & the Workforce Committee Chairman John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-California) today announced an agreement...

December 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In response to all the concern about its reported deficit, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) posted a Q & A, "Understanding the...

December 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Maryland has allowed a K plan participant to push forward with his allegations of an Employee Retirement Income Security...

December 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Texas has ruled for the plaintiff in a lawsuit against a long-term disability insurer after finding that the summary...

December 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America (PSCA) is urging the House of Representatives to enact its Pension Protection Act (HR 2830) before it...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The administrator of a life insurance plan should not have refused to pay benefits to the father of a beneficiary who lied about...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New Jersey Superior Court ruled that stock options awarded to a husband as a signing and retention bonus by his new employer...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri ruled that a court order that divided pension plan benefits between a participant...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A settlement was reached in a trial after testimony that the woman who claimed sexual harassment against her company was actually a willing...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials have published IRS Notice 2005-94 that provides that employers are not required to report deferrals of compensation under...

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a second ruling relating to a Qwest Communications lawsuit, Chief US District Judge Lewis Babcock decided a pension plan committee's investment guidelines...