Compliance

August 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Upholding a lower court ruling, federal appellate judges have cleared an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) trustee of wrongdoing in connection with the...

August 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney now has a bill on his desk that guarantees state workers on active military duty won't lose salary or...

August 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retail companies that sell groceries would have to make substantial contributions toward their employees' health insurance coverage costs according to a bill that...

August 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Though divided on the issue, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that an employer's comment that the company was actively seeking to...

August 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) has filed suit against the trustees of the Cleveland-based Sheet Metal Workers Local 33 pension plan for...

August 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski has signed into law a measure that requires the state's group health insurers to offer insurance parity for mental...

August 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Arizona federal judge has ruled that an employer violated the anti-cutback rule in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) by changing...

August 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Virginia federal judge has rejected arguments by a law firm partner that his state court lawsuit wasn't pre-empted by the Employee Retirement...

August 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Venture capital firms are closely watching a newly adopted Texas law, and a similar legislative proposal in California, that could help establish a...

August 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that asbestos-related disease does not qualify as "bodily injury by...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued proposed and final regulations under IRC Sections 411(a) and 411(d)(6) to address a recent Supreme Court decision...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Supreme Court has decided that the state's discrimination law applies to a cosmetics executive who refused to fire a sales associate...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Arizona's highest court has overturned a state law making it harder to qualify for workers' compensation benefits if under the...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A court has found that a requirement omitted from a benefits brochure can still be enforced in spite of the omission.

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Oregon Supreme Court has dismissed appeals to a lower court's ruling that will decrease public retirees' benefits by some $1.6 million and...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio resolved the coordination of benefits (COB) between a COBRA plan and other group...

August 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Cendant Corp. employee who was outsourced to International Business Machines Corp. has run into a legal roadblock in his court fight...

August 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has delayed implementation of the Securities and Exchange Commission's rule changing the makeup of...

August 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have given a preview of the areas on which they will provide legal and regulatory guidance in the next year.

August 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Texas federal judge has ruled that the executive of a bankrupt company who had been a K plan fiduciary violated the Employee...