Compliance

May 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois state employee and public school teacher unions are lobbying legislators to reject pension reform proposals from Governor Rod Blagojevich and rely instead...

May 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has turned aside arguments by an accountant for a profit-sharing plan that he was not a plan fiduciary because...

May 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An influential House Republican leader will reportedly include an automatic K plan enrollment feature in his proposed Social Security reform legislation, according to...

May 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alaska lawmakers have scheduled another attempt to pass pension reform legislation amid an increasingly tense and combative atmosphere.

May 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich Jr. on Thursday vetoed a bill effectively forcing retailing giant Wal-Mart to step up its employee health benefit spending...

May 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Computermaker IBM agreed on Thursday to pay $314 million to settle claims that thousands of workers were cheated in their pension benefits when...

May 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has cleared the way for two former employees of SBC Communications to pursue their lawsuit alleging their defined benefit...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Louisiana federal judge has upheld the ruling of an accidental death benefit plan administrator who refused to pay benefits to the widow...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York administrative law judge has ruled that the Empire State's Division of Taxation should not tax the income of a man...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a Naugatuck, Connecticut company cannot drop retirement benefit agreements it had with four executives who it...

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Accenture employee can't sue the consulting firm over changes in its leave of absence policies since the company partly retracted the rule...

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - West Virginia health insurers are now mandated to cover prescription contraceptive drugs or contraceptive devices approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration...

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that corporations cannot buy corporate-owned life insurance policies (COLIs) for all of their full-time workers because they...

May 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two US House Democrats have introduced legislation putting a six-month moratorium on bankrupt companies transferring their pension plans to the US private pension...

May 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawmakers have resurrected several previous attempts to restrict companies from taking out corporate-owned life insurance policies (COLI) to top executives and highly compensated...

May 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's equivalent of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is accepting responsibility for pension plans from companies on the edge of bankruptcy...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US Bankruptcy judge has approved Murray Inc.'s request to use cash collateral held by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp (PBGC) to help...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) showed off an odd political alliance Wednesday as she unveiled a new measure to reform the...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Insurance premiums that financially healthy companies pay to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) would increase by more than twice those of their...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has refused to throw out a fuel delivery driver's lawsuit under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), because it...