Compliance

March 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has ruled that age discrimination need not be intentional for employers to be held liable for its effects.

March 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Supreme Court justices on Tuesday expanded the protection of the Title IX anti-discrimination statute to not only cover victims, but those who...

March 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a man who had a heart attack after work is eligible for workers compensation benefits.

March 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld the ruling of a lower court that a long-term disability (LTD) insurance provider did not act improperly...

March 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has ruled that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) does not have a fiduciary duty to correct the mistakes of...

March 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two pilots for a commuter carrier later acquired by American Airlines have lost another round in their legal battle against the company and...

March 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A wife who sought a restraining order against her husband - an event that resulted in his being fired as a sheriff's deputy...

March 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York state appeals court has upheld a workers compensation law that excludes death benefits for domestic partners.

March 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has settled charges that the trustees of 10 pension and health plans invested plan assets in risky private...

March 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wednesday's release of the 2005 Social Security Trustees Report was mostly full of bad news.

March 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has refused to dismiss a claim brought by retirement plan participants against AOL Time Warner that alleged that the company...

March 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of a decision that an employer acted reasonably in ruling that an employee...

March 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Responding to public requests that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) disclose more about how it goes about auditing K plans, the IRS has...

March 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two prominent Republican members of the US House of Representatives on Friday called for the US Department of Labor (DoL) to investigate whether...

March 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that retirees may be entitled to "lifetime" heath benefits because of ambiguous plan language, and has sent...

March 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Quebec Court of Appeals has denied retirees from Hydro-Quebec the right to have their say with a pension surplus.

March 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California appeals court has ruled that an ex-husband can not challenge the distribution date of a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) that...

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 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a company breached its fiduciary duty by providing incorrect pension statements to an employee, and also...

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...