Compliance

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials have announced that the IRS is now accepting applications for opinion and advisory letters for certain defined contribution...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate has again passed a bill that would make it illegal to discriminate based on genetic data, repeating a step taken...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even while finding that the TPA of an occupational injury benefit plan covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) abused its...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that employees' pension rights were not violated when their employer outsourced their division to a subcontractor.

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush Administration's point person on proposed defined benefit pension reforms on Friday defended the administration's recently released plan and termed a critical...

February 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A benefits industry trade group on Thursday took direct aim on the Bush Administration's recently unveiled pension reform plan, charging that proposed pension...

February 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has awarded $2 million in fees to lawyers in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) suit brought against ExxonMobil...

February 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A man who was shot by an off-duty police officer after he went after him with a knife is not eligible for accidental...

February 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS has reminded plan administrators that amendments to comply with new automatic rollover rules must be adopted by the end of the...

February 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor has released two opinion letters regarding the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

February 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A plan administrator did not abuse its discretion when using older mortality tables in calculating a lump sum to be rolled over into...

February 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ordered a Washington, DC-based insurance broker to repay $955,515 to its employee benefit plan clients - money the court...

February 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bipartisan Congressional group has reintroduced a bill giving Americans tax incentives to buy annuities for retirement savings.

February 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has reached an agreement with Rosemore Inc. over the strengthening of a subsidiary's pension plan

February 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bipartisan US Senate group has proposed allowing workers to carry forward up to $500 in unused Flexible Spending Account (FSA) funds to...

February 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Chicago lawyer accused of cursing and displaying improper behavior during an unfavorable performance review has won a $300,000 defamation lawsuit against his...

February 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of Republican lawmakers in the US House of Representatives has introduced a package of proposed changes at the Occupational Safety and...

February 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Arbitrators have brushed off claims that a dyslexic Pennsylvania investor overspent her Merrill Lynch brokerage account because the company did not accommodate her...

February 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with a pending $4 billion budget shortfall, New Jersey officials are considering taxing K plan contributions as a way to pump an...

February 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An e-mail to an employee offering severance benefits of six months salary did not create an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) severance...