Compliance

November 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced settlements totaling $465,727 for five age discrimination lawsuits against school districts in Minnesota.

November 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With lawmakers in the Massachusetts state House and Senate trying to work out differences between their competing versions of a health care plan...

November 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension reform may actually reach the Senate floor now that Senators Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) and Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland) have lifted their procedural objections...

November 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A prominent US House Democrat has waded into an always controversial topic in corporate governance circles with a new bill mandating additional executive...

November 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The drive for sweeping pension reform continues its steady march through the legislative process with a vote by a US House of Representatives...

November 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The second phase of the reorganization of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is on again after a House appropriations committee member withdrew...

November 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court in Connecticut has ruled that Competitive Technologies, Inc. (CTI) must reinstate two whistleblowers while it appeals a decision of the...

November 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Maryland has ruled that an employee may use evidence that her grandmother acted as her...

November 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House Employer-Employee Relations Subcommittee has reviewed the impact of the Workplace Religious Freedom Act sponsored by Education and the Workforce Committee...

November 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled that a pension plan that covered only the owner of the...

November 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Minnesota federal judge has blessed a move by a Colorado utility company to carry corporate-owned life insurance (COLI) policies on almost 2,500...

November 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Southern District of Texas has ruled that the surviving spouse of a participant is entitled to the...

November 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Virginia appeals court has upheld a finding by the state's workers' compensation authority granting benefits to a former minor-league hockey player who...

November 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate has approved a budget measure that will increase annual premiums paid by employers to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to...

November 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With pension reform proposals swirling in Washington, and the topic of cash balance plans as controversial as ever, the Government Accountability Office (GAO)...

November 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) has introduced a bill intended to help small businesses provide affordable heath insurance to employees.

November 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan found that trustees of a profit sharing plan abused their discretion when they...

November 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals determined that nothing in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's (ERISA) provisions for qualified domestic relations...

November 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of New York ruled that the administrator of an accidental death benefit plan was right...

November 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ruled that ERISA provides no remedy to a plan participant who was inaccurately...