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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...

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Bush Administration analysis of its pending defined benefit pension reform proposal paints a decidedly rosy picture of the plan's potential advantages that...

April 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that a temporary employment agency's client is not protected by workers compensation's exclusive remedy provision unless it...

April 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has overturned lower court rulings for a case in which a couple was trying to shield their IRA accounts...

April 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At the end of a bitter legal battle, Eagle Global Logistics has recovered nearly $6 million that it had previously set aside as...

April 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The South Carolina Senate has approved a plan to overhaul the state retirement system.

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A fiduciary breach suit against Polaroid Corp. cleared a legal hurdle when a New York federal judge refused to dismiss the lawsuit filed...

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Puerto Rico federal judge has sent back to state court a lawsuit by a worker who claimed employees of his employer's long...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal securities regulators unanimously voted Wednesday to allow Wall Street investment brokers to keep hawking investment advice without having to become registered investment...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Britain's Pension Protection Fund (PPF), which started work on Wednesday as the UK's answer to the US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) as...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Nebraska federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit representing about 400 current and former Union Pacific Railroad workers who...