Compliance

May 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Nebraska federal judge has cleared for trial a lawsuit by an Army reservist over his employer's failure to rehire him when his...

May 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have proposed new rules that National Guard and Reserve members can continue to contribute to their...

May 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A several-year-old movement by US airline pilots to get the federally mandated retirement age raised to 65 appears to be gaining strength because...

May 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A prominent US House Democrat is sponsoring what is believed to be the first online hearing ever conducted by a House member -...

May 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A plaintiff covered by an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)-governed severance plan can get access to plan e-mails and documents in an...

May 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) on Tuesday released a laundry list of 32 actions the trade group said Congressional lawmakers should consider when...

May 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has refused to review a Texas case which said that federal common law can be used to decide if...

May 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Banks, brokerage firms and investment firms cannot accept payments from mutual fund companies in exchange for steering retirement account customers into those funds...

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) - 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...