Compliance

April 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies in US Bankruptcy Court reorganization would have to seek court approval of any executive compensation package, such as stock option grants, before...

April 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California senate bill that strengthens shareholders' voting rights in publicly-traded corporations based in California and a congressional bill that would require company...

April 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The compliance deadline for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is April 21 for entities that fall under the...

April 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US District Court in Michigan has refused General Motors Corp.'s motion to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the company breached its fiduciary duties...

April 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of New York has ruled that a disability benefit plan administrator acted reasonably by depending...

April 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of New York has held a father and son both liable for failing to forward...

April 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial services companies are fighting to keep a provision in the US House pension reform measure passed last year dealing with the Employee...

April 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawmakers assigned the task of reconciling the two major pension reform bills passed last year are considering an expansion of the provision for...

April 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts legislature has passed a bill that requires all residents to obtain health insurance by July 1, 2007.

April 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Connecticut has ruled that a FleetBoston Financial Corp. employee can continue to pursue her claims...

April 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers paid a commission amount for their sales activities may be exempt from federal salary laws if their commission amount is a percentage...

April 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa has ruled that an employer must include the shift differential it regularly pays...

April 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has cleared AT&T of allegations it violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) by not providing employees 15 days...

April 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has added to its Web site an inventory of Appeals Board decisions.

April 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has determined that a profit sharing plan's trustees unreasonably allocated losses to a...

March 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Secretary of Labor (DoL) Elaine Chao on Friday tapped five new members of the 2006 Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension...

March 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) has filed interpretive guidance with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to the sale of 529...

March 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a district court's order quashing a writ of garnishment against an employee's pension plan...

March 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas has agreed with a health plan participant that a provision of the plan...

March 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has announced the successful end of its effort to prevent abandonment by WCI Steel Inc. of its...