March 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Nebraska lighting company, which fired a bipolar employee by taping a note to the front door of his home, has settled a...
March 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) recovery of $3 million from an employer on behalf of 800...
February 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer's decision not to renew an employee's contract after the employee filed a claim for benefits was not an ERISA violation or...
February 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to get Canadians to better plan for retirement, Canadian government officials have announced workers will be allowed to sock away...
January 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Gottesdiener Law Firm has asked the US Bankruptcy Court in New York to lift the automatic stay that has protected the company...
July 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors will not have to worry about increased disclosure requirements for some aspects of new pension plan disclosure rules on October 1.
July 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A pension disability plan does not have to pay retroactive benefits to a plan participant prior to the two years of benefits provided...
June 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A dozen defendants have been charged with a litany of federal law violations in connection with the financial transactions of the City of...
June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State of Ohio pension officials will have new ethics and accountability standards to follow, under a reform bill penned by Governor Bob Taft.
June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a woman afflicted with multiple sclerosis (MS) was entitled to long-term disability (LTD) benefits despite a...
June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge turned back efforts by a retiree who was a participant in a defined contribution retirement plan to force the plan...
June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)A couple's estrangement is not a "legal separation" or qualifying event under COBRA, and therefore a company cannot provide an election notice upon such a...
June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials at the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have released proposed models for trust/custodial agreements for Health Savings Accounts...
June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kansas federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after a June 2001 motorcycle...
June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)Quakers' refusal to comply with a levy on the earnings of a Quaker employee and "war tax protestor," makes the Quakers directly liable for all...
June 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has issued two technical corrections to its previously published guidance on notice requirements of the health care continuation...
June 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former trial lawyer at a Cincinnati law firm has won an important victory in her court battle for long-term disability (LTD) payments...
June 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A San Francisco federal judge has given the green light to a gender discrimination lawsuit against the giant retailer Wal-Mart proceeding as a...
June 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Treasury Department have issued more Health Savings Account guidance to help high deductible health plans...
June 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former employee of a New York City law firm has won his battle with his employer's disability insurance provider over whether he...