Compliance

September 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kansas federal judge has turned away efforts to throw out a participant company stock lawsuit against Sprint Corporation's directors, green lighting plaintiffs'...

September 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's (DoL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have...

September 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has obtained a consent judgment that would require three former trustees of a health and pension plan to...

September 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lawsuit has been brought against Aquila Inc., contending that the company breached its fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

September 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wachovia Corporation has agreed to a $5.5 million settlement with the government in connection with charges that a recently acquired bank discriminated against...

September 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Illinois federal judge has cleared the way for participants in the Motorola 401(k) profit sharing plan to proceed with claims that the...

September 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) released its final regulations mandating that certain distributions of retirement plan benefits must now be automatically rolled over...

September 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal private pension insurer has filed a $2.3 million lien against an ailing New York silverware manufacturer after the company missed a...

September 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bills working their way through Congress may allow residents of disaster-prone Florida and surrounding states to make early tax-free withdrawals of their retirement...

September 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Appeals judges have thrown out a lower court ruling in a retiree lawsuit over whether a summary plan description (SPD) guaranteed life insurance...

September 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The proposed regulations released with the intent of clarifying the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act of 1994 (USERRA) have made it clear...

September 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives has approved an amendment to the Treasury Department's funding bill for the third time that would prevent it...

September 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's (DoL) Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS) has proposed regulations that would clarify the existing Uniformed Services Employment and...

September 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer released Technical Update 04-4 to offer guidance on whether a plan administrator of an underfunded single-employer defined benefit...

September 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Indiana federal court has ruled that it has jurisdiction over a resident's claim that his Florida-based employer fired him in an effort...

September 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The majority of endowments and foundations that invest in hedge funds support the proposed regulation by the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) that...

September 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has reached a partial settlement with current and former employees over its pension plan.

September 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Mississippi federal judge has given the green light for relatives of six slain Lockeed Martin employees to move forward with their damage...

September 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An alternative investments trade group is pushing the notion that new US hedge fund registration rules not apply to advisors already regulated in...

September 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has dismissed a case against International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) that accused the company of breaching its fiduciary duties in...