Compliance

July 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate Commerce Committee voted 14-8 to include a provision allowing reimportation of foreign drugs in its bill reauthorizing the Federal Trade...

July 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials said Thursday that they have obtained a court order from an Indianapolis federal judge increasing the amount that executives of a...

July 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial executives managing pension plans believe proposed pension reform is focused too much on the solvency of the nation's private pension insurer and...

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) ruled that the employer of a city police officer could not require reimbursement of wages paid during...

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressional lawmakers are moving to make permanent the sweetening of permitted K plan contribution and catch-up provisions contained in a 2001 law.

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has backed a lower court judge in ruling that IBM's severance plan was within its right to deny benefits...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York federal judge has taken the unusual step of naming a small group of individual investors as lead plaintiff in a...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell has signed into law a bill mandating that elective deferrals to nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plans are to be...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A prominent Democratic Congressman has proposed that federal employees be allowed to obtain health insurance, retirement and other benefits for their domestic partners.

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has signed into law a bill that will allow commercial insurers to offer health savings accounts (HSAs) linked to...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A court dismissed the case for a Verizon PA Inc. employee who was terminated on the same day the company announced a benefit...

July 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A protective order against a health plan participant's estranged husband was not the same as a legal separation agreement and therefore was not...

July 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Minnesota legislature passed a bill to increase employer contributions to the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) to 7% of payroll in 2010,...

July 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have released proposed regulations dealing with how employers can properly use electronic media to provide employee and beneficiary notice and information...

July 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives has approved a four-bill Republican-sponsored package containing sweeping reforms of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

July 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal tax officials have put out new rules allowing an officer or duly authorized agent to sign a company's employment tax form either...

July 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal tax officials say they have received a "strong turnout" for their offer to settle up with companies that participated in an illegal...

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two members of the US Senate Finance Committee have introduced proposals to change tax provisions relating to health benefit coverage.

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has asked a Philadelphia federal judge to take another look at her March 30 decision that...

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Texas Supreme Court has denied a motion for rehearing a trial, finding that Diamond Shamrock Refining Co. L.P. was not guilty of...