Compliance

November 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a man whose ex-wife had substantial holdings in a Honeywell stock option plan has lost...

November 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has slapped a former cancer treatment facility worker with a 16-month jail term for violating federal privacy laws by stealing...

November 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California court has ruled that a 2001 law that permits co-workers to sue each other for sexual and other types of harassment...

November 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit against an Illinois company after ruling that the firm complied with federal continuing health insurance...

November 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers must now provide employees and company agents at all levels with compliance and ethics training under amended federal law.

November 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees of chemical and material company W.R. Grace & Co. have filed a class-action lawsuit against their employer, alleging that the company and...

November 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that top executives were responsible for what their subordinates were or were not doing in a case of...

November 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US District Court has ruled that a plan insurer is not bound by misstatements made by the plan sponsor regarding coverage in...

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eastman Kodak Co. has been ordered to give back $9.6 million, plus interest, to the federal government for improperly billing pension costs to...

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A health maintenance organization (HMO) that charges prescription drug copayments higher than its costs doesn't violate the terms of its plans or breach...

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has reached a deal with Burlington, Ontario-based Laidlaw Inc to strengthen seven pension plans sponsored by its...

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) has approved final rules implementing a new federal law requiring 401(k) plans to give workers 30-day...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An obese participant in a union-run health plan lost another legal fight in his battle to get health-care coverage for his gastric bypass...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that former common-law spouses cannot collect survivor pension benefits, unlike their married-but-separated counterparts.

October 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that a deferred compensation plan's administrative committee can be named as a defendant in a suit regarding a...

October 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Golden State plan sponsors will need to be aware of the effects of a new state law that will require all group health...

October 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), an HR professionals' trade group, has publicly given its kudos to President Bush for signing into...

October 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) now offers Spanish speakers their own version of the agency's Web site.

October 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an extremely significant development affecting the investment community, a badly divided US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered hedge fund managers...

October 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that a man whose toe was amputated due to diabetic complications cannot receive benefits from his company's Employee...