Compliance

November 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defenders of cash balance pension plans have won a legal victory with a ruling by a federal judge in Pennsylvania dismissing an employee...

November 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has turned away arguments by a plan participant who claimed he lost more than $350,000 when his...

November 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a plan administrator in denying accident benefits to an employee who fell in the...

November 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS has extended the deadline when plans must be in compliance with their reforming amendments relating to providing payments of retroactive benefits...

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Virginia has cleared an accidental death benefit plan administrator of wrongdoing in ruling that the death of plan participant...

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it has assumed responsibility for two pension plans of Falcon Products, Inc. and its subsidiary Shelby...

November 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An federal judge in Indiana has tossed aside arguments by two General Motors employees that the company was barred from recouping disability payments...

November 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Montana Supreme Court has rebuffed efforts by a former cell phone company worker who claimed he still deserved severance pay even after...

November 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A provision of the pension reform bill, passed in the Senate this week, will allow workers who enrolled in a 401(k) plan at...

November 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education and the Seafarers International Union (SIU) have agreed to pay $625,000 to settle an Equal...

November 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A hearing in US Bankruptcy Court on Delta Air Lines' request to void its contract with its pilots' union began with an attorney...

November 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court let stand a case holding that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) preempted state law claims brought by a...

November 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The White House has called the Senate's pension reform measure passed Wednesday inadequate, and warned that President Bush was likely to veto it...

November 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma has ruled that a participant can receive benefits for his claims related to...

November 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Virginia federal judge has cleared a Washington, DC-based independent fiduciary of a fiduciary breach when it worked with the US Airways company...

November 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate has passed the Heroes Earned Retirement Opportunities Act (HEROs), but has set a different effective date on the bill than the...

November 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The drive to reform the nation's pension system took a big step forward Wednesday when the US Senate approved a compromise measure.

November 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has refused to get involved in a lower court ruling clearing an employer of Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

November 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Illinois federal judge has ruled that a participant's choice of his live-in girlfriend as beneficiary could be tossed out if it can...

November 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has sent back to a lower court a case involving the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)...