Compliance

August 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A judge in the US District Court for the District of Maryland decided that it was the proper venue for an ERISA case...

August 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor's (DoL's) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) office has published a proposed regulation requiring plans to file the Form...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service on Friday issued new guidance on how it would handle consideration of remedial amendments for individually-designed and pre-approved qualified...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court have ruled that a lawsuit by four retirees over the Teacher and Employee Retention Incentive (TERI)...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has slapped a Puerto Rican company with a $2,500 fine for delaying its response to an employee's inquiry about the...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) offers no legal remedy to...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and the IRS have issued final regulations completing a two year project to stop abusive transactions involving section 412(i) plans...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling in a case where a former General Motors Corp. (GM)...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled for an employee who claims she was retaliated against by her employer after she...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has disagreed with a lower court decision that an ERISA case be dismissed because...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - North Carolina has adopted a new workers' compensation law that eases employers' ability to access employees' private medical records.

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has cleared the former owner of a company that made television commercials for advertising agencies of wrongdoing for not providing...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS and US Treasury have issued proposed regulations regarding comparability rules for employer contributions to employees' Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has proposed regulations to clarify several issues involving deductions for dividends on employer securities held in employee stock...

August 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Oklahoma federal judge has certified as a class action a lawsuit filed by current and former K plan participants from Williams Cos....

August 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Ohio legislation signed into law by Governor Bob Taft allows companies in the state offering group health insurance to start offering high-deductible...

August 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers submitting data to Medicare officials as part of the application for the new Medicare Part D retiree drug subsidy may get their...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has breathed new life into a whistleblower lawsuit filed by two former Fulton County, Georgia workers who claimed they...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) plans to propose a regulation by the end of the year that will encourage employers to use automatic...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) of the US Department of Labor has issued final approval of amendments to prohibited transaction rules outlining...