Compliance

October 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives has approved a committee's compromise language on the American Jobs Creation Act tax bill, and the bill will...

October 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a woman who charged her employer didn't properly inform her of her continuing health care...

October 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered an employer to offer a fired employee the chance to choose continuing health care coverage and awarded...

October 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new lawsuit has alleged that more than 1,200 former Spartan International employees lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in retirement savings and...

October 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) achieved a record-breaking 121% increase in enforcement results in FY2004, according to a Department of Labor (DoL)...

October 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Ann Combs, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits Security, today announced, during a conference call, that the Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA) recovered and...

October 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), an insurer of private sector defined benefit retirement plans, has announced that it will assume responsibility for...

October 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US District Court has ruled that a profit-sharing plan administrator did not act unreasonably in altering the plan's valuation date in order...

October 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday release the cost of living adjustments applicable to dollar limitation for pension plans and other items for...

October 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has unanimously ruled that zero-tolerance drug tests are not unreasonable for people in dangerous work situations.

October 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's accounting rulemakers have tentatively decided to expand their ongoing cash balance plan project to all plans featuring lump-sum distributions including equity...

October 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kansas woman trying to get health coverage for an ear implant won a sweeping legal victory when a federal judge ordered her...

October 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SmithKline Beecham Corp. has agreed to a $5.2 million settlement with a group who filed a class action suit contending that the company...

October 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit over inadequate continuing health coverage notices under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), saying...

October 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Connecticut federal judge has thrown out a denial of health-care coverage lawsuit against Aetna Life Insurance Co., saying the employer's third-party administrator...

October 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US District Court of Massachusetts judge has ruled that a telephone call to an insurer is not enough to change beneficiary status...

October 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A long-running legal dispute over whether federal benefits law pre-empts state statutes in health-care coverage disputes has drawn to a close with a...

October 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bankruptcy court in North Carolina has ruled that a former husband does not have an enforceable lien on his ex-wife's 401(k) funds...

October 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal district court judge has ruled that a fiduciary that has been unsuccessfully sued by plan participants cannot recover legal fees incurred...

October 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's highest court on Tuesday sidestepped an effort by a national restaurant company to rule on whether it must pay its workers...