Compliance

April 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has issued a tentative ruling against a group of employees who claim that their former employer should have given them...

April 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials say employers don't have to put workers sent out of town for long periods back on the clock when they voluntarily...

April 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill that would allow a union to be formed if a majority of employees supported such a move has been introduced by...

April 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's high court has refused to get involved in the appeal of a lower court ruling that a cash balance plan participant...

April 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A participant in a severance plan who only learned about his ineligibility for benefits through an informal conversation with a human resources executive...

April 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators have put out guidance on how they plan to handle the civil enforcement of the medical information privacy and security laws...

April 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Maine could be a step closer to enforcing its controversial pharmacy benefits management (PBM) industry bill requiring the PBMs to...

April 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Government officials on Monday announced that they would limit the retroactive enforcement of a June 2004 US Supreme Court decision that employers cannot...

April 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirees would only have to pay federal income taxes on half of their Social Security benefits instead of the current 85% under a...

April 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A retiring executive challenging how the administrator of his employer's top-hat plan calculated his Social Security offset lost a second legal battle when...

April 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As part of a business lobbying group's legal challenge to a new rule mandating more independence among mutual fund directors, a government lawyer...

April 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act - which includes numerous retirement provisions - has passed both chambers of Congress and is...

April 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Oregon State Supreme Court has nullified almost 3,000 same-sex marriages done in one county, saying that a single county did not have...

April 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UNUM Life Insurance did not err in denying a drunk driver long-term disability benefits after a car accident, a federal judge has ruled.

April 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has refused to overturn a lower court ruling that the nation's insurer of private-sector pension plans was within its...

April 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has announced a restructuring within its ranks.

April 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have confirmed that an individual can be eligible to contribute to a Health Savings Account...

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling denying a woman's efforts to collect on her dead husband's life insurance because...

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has given plan sponsors additional guidance on how they can qualify for the estimated $668...

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that a "zero tolerance" workplace violence policy did not warrant the discharge of multiple union...