Compliance

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Michigan has agreed with an accidental death benefit plan participant that the plan administrator acted unreasonably when it refused...

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...

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has issued a warning that hiring managers should not prejudge a job applicant's medical condition and use that as...

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Qwest Communications retirees won partial victories in their fight to get information about the management of their pension fund.

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court refused to review a case concerning a blind worker who was fired for a bad attitude, poor work ethic,...

December 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in West Virginia has thrown out a benefits denial by an accidental death and dismemberment benefit plan administrator who turned...

December 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina denied summary judgment in favor of an employer accused of a breach...

December 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has refused to approve a proposed $3.5 million settlement with the company that had been calculating the...

December 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS issued Notice 2005-95 which clarifies the interaction of the amendment timing deadlines for plans qualified under § 401(a) as set forth...

December 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Minnesota ruled that an employer failed to meet its COBRA notice obligation when the notice...

December 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has tossed out a lower court ruling that an employer was blocked from correcting a miscalculated pension benefit level.

December 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has agreed to review a case that will allow it to clarify the scope of "equitable relief" or reimbursement...

December 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments in a challenge to a new state law requiring payroll retirement contributions from...

December 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has released two final rules for 2006.

December 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Representatives George Miller (D-California) and Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate whether the federal agencies that...

December 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASD has hit Ameriprise Financial Services with a $12.3 million fine over allegations the firm took directed brokerage payments to give preferential treatment...

November 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal tax officials have offered guidance on how to implement two provisions of the legislation passed in September to give Hurricane Katrina victims...

November 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal grand jury has indicted the owner of VPC Group Inc. of Virginia Beach, Virginia on five counts of filing fraudulent Form...

November 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Pennsylvania in large measure relied on pronouncements from the US Treasury Department and a growing body of case law...

November 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Italian government has given its blessing to a long-awaited pension reform program, but then put the whole thing off by delaying implementation...