Compliance

January 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has granted summary judgment in favor of an employer who fired an employee discovered working out,...

January 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Supreme Court justices are considering a Louisiana case about whether employers are effectively shielded from federal sexual harassment lawsuits because they are...

January 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Ohio has thrown out worker claims that their employer should be barred from collecting past pension benefit overpayments out...

January 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Missouri found that it was not unreasonable for a health plan administrative committee to...

January 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has issued final rules requiring administrators of multiemployer pension plans to issue an annual notice of the funding...

January 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Acting New Jersey Governor Richard Codey has signed into a law a bill requiring that Garden State health insurance providers covering outpatient prescription...

January 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ruling that a Massachusetts couple's marriage was over in everything but the technicalities when the husband killed himself, a federal judge has awarded...

January 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Xerox Corp's method for offsetting the pension benefits for a group of rehired...

January 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Nebraska has rejected the argument that employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) participants' malpractice claim against...

January 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of New Jersey has ruled in favor of Ohio Casualty Insurance Co., agreeing that an employee...

January 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has rejected efforts by a man convicted of child pornography to keep the federal government from dipping into his...

January 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The city of Seattle has reached a tentative settlement of $11.5 million on charges that it misclassified a group of employees as temporary...

January 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A state of Washington appeals court has ruled that an ex-Microsoft worker can't keep any of the sale proceeds from his exercised stock...

January 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of New Jersey has determined that an amended qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) naming a participant's...

January 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has ruled that Independence Management Company did not interfere with the benefits of...

January 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of former Abbott Laboratories employees has won the right to collectively challenge their termination as part of the spinoff of an...

January 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wal-Mart now faces a class action lawsuit in Pennsylvania that charges employees weren't paid as required for rest and meal breaks taken over...

January 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of New Jersey has ruled that an employee who resigned after learning of AT&T Capital Corp's...

January 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As the minutes ran out on 2005, the Treasury Department and the IRS at last issued the much anticipated final regulations regarding sections...

December 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - FedEx has been ordered to pay $5.3 million to a group of drivers classified as independent contractors, for expenses incurred.