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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 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) - 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 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 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...

November 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Tennessee Court of Appeals found that the intent of a marital dissolution agreement was to divest Tina Lunsford of any interest in...

November 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS has issued Revenue Procedure 2005-71, extending the deadline for entering a voluntary correction program (VCP) relating to certain tax withholding and...

November 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals has decided the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) did not violate the US...

November 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that an employee "regarded as" disabled by an employer is entitled to the same...

November 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York State Legislature amended The New York General Business Law to require employers to notify employees of any breach of security...