Compliance

December 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina denied summary judgment in favor of an employer accused of a breach...

December 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has refused to approve a proposed $3.5 million settlement with the company that had been calculating the...

December 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS issued Notice 2005-95 which clarifies the interaction of the amendment timing deadlines for plans qualified under § 401(a) as set forth...

December 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Minnesota ruled that an employer failed to meet its COBRA notice obligation when the notice...

December 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has tossed out a lower court ruling that an employer was blocked from correcting a miscalculated pension benefit level.

December 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has agreed to review a case that will allow it to clarify the scope of "equitable relief" or reimbursement...

December 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments in a challenge to a new state law requiring payroll retirement contributions from...

December 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has released two final rules for 2006.

December 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Representatives George Miller (D-California) and Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate whether the federal agencies that...

December 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASD has hit Ameriprise Financial Services with a $12.3 million fine over allegations the firm took directed brokerage payments to give preferential treatment...

November 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal grand jury has indicted the owner of VPC Group Inc. of Virginia Beach, Virginia on five counts of filing fraudulent Form...

November 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal tax officials have offered guidance on how to implement two provisions of the legislation passed in September to give Hurricane Katrina victims...

November 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Pennsylvania in large measure relied on pronouncements from the US Treasury Department and a growing body of case law...

November 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Italian government has given its blessing to a long-awaited pension reform program, but then put the whole thing off by delaying implementation...

November 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defenders of cash balance pension plans have won a legal victory with a ruling by a federal judge in Pennsylvania dismissing an employee...

November 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has turned away arguments by a plan participant who claimed he lost more than $350,000 when his...

November 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a plan administrator in denying accident benefits to an employee who fell in the...

November 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS has extended the deadline when plans must be in compliance with their reforming amendments relating to providing payments of retroactive benefits...

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Virginia has cleared an accidental death benefit plan administrator of wrongdoing in ruling that the death of plan participant...

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it has assumed responsibility for two pension plans of Falcon Products, Inc. and its subsidiary Shelby...