Compliance

April 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pennsylvania Senate has passed legislation that would exempt health savings accounts (HSAs) from that state's personal income tax.

April 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has refused to overturn a decision by a long-term disability policy provider denying benefits to a former marketing agency executive...

April 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court jury in Columbia, South Carolina has awarded a group of institutional investors $200 million in their securities claims against two...

April 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Microsoft has refused to endorse a Washington state bill that would have made it illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation - a...

April 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The employer of an employee who received an e-mail about a reduction-in-force program but was not selected for the program did not violate...

April 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just because a plan recordkeeper worked on a plan regulated by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), it does not give a...

April 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) has come out in opposition to the House-proposed Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premium hike, saying that it...

April 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The ongoing battle between United Airlines and the federal private-sector pension insurer over the fate of the troubled air carrier's four pension plans...

April 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The top insurance regulator in the state of Michigan - as well as its Governor - are urging congressional delegates from the state...

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 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Numerous US airlines may get a break on their pension contributions if legislation introduced in the Senate Wednesday passes.

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) - 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 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 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 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 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...