Compliance

March 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A final announcement has been made by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding the settlement incentive for companies and executives who transferred stock...

March 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The long-running saga of the controversial issue of gay marriage took another turn Monday with a ruling by a California Superior Court that...

March 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's insurer of private-sector pension plans said Monday that it is looking for public comment on a proposed rule to amend the...

March 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In yet another sign that the nation's insurer of private pensions continues to get pounded by the airline industry's financial problems, the agency...

March 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Pennsylvania state court has turned aside 17 former Verizon employees who received buyout packages in their efforts to also get unemployment benefits.

March 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial institutions would be allowed to take responsibility for the assets in the approximately 1,650 401(k) plans abandoned each year in order to...

March 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's high court has refused to overturn a lower court ruling that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is not required to...

March 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a lawsuit by three California men who claimed American Airlines denied them jobs as...

March 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Democratic US senator used a hearing on the Administration's pension reform proposal last week to urge that the proposal's executive compensation limit...

March 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has turned away efforts by an employee of a Pennsylvania Wal-Mart to revive her negligence suit that claimed the...

March 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer can't retroactively change a former worker's retirement date necessary for the worker to get credit for full 30-year pension, a West...

March 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has thrown out part of a lower court's ruling that a Ohio company's state law claims against its employee...

March 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Smaller US firms and overseas corporations will now have an extra year to comply with a recent law requiring public reports on their internal...

March 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America Corp. (BOA) has announced that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has tentatively concluded that it violated "anti-cutback" rules in connection...

March 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many more US workers would enjoy a higher initial retiree benefit from the current Social Security program than from an individual account plan...

March 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Problems in the defined benefit pension system should prompt Congress to reconsider the entire legal underpinning of the insurance system administered by the...

March 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with what he described as a "fiscal crisis" in the Garden State, Acting New Jersey Governor Richard Codey has called for a...

March 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has denied IBM's motion to dismiss in a case involving an employee who claimed he was fired because of his...

March 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and IRS have proposed regulations regarding designated Roth contributions to 401(k) plans.

March 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to an advisory opinion from the Department of Labor (DoL), insurers and other organizations that provide benefits covered by federal pension law...