Compliance

December 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Attorney's Office in New York has announced the arrest of two men on charges that they violated Occupational Safety and Health...

December 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has refused to consider two cases involving assignment of benefit issues under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

December 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US Tax Court has ruled that even though a pension plan fiduciary owned less than 50% of companies to which the plan...

December 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue has ruled that an employer's matching contributions to an employee's savings plan are exempt from the state's income...

December 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has published an Exposure Draft giving state and local governmental employers accounting guidance on benefits provided to...

December 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that pension/K plan participants aren't entitled to their legal costs if they have...

December 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Canadian Supreme Court, in a long-expected move, has ruled that the Parliament can alter the definition of marriage under the Constitution to...

December 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld a Philadelphia ordinance that requires certain employers to extend employee benefits to same-sex couples who register with...

December 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A coalition of interest groups pushing the purchasing of guaranteed retirement income vehicles such as annuities on Wednesday applauded two United States Senators...

December 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two former employees of now-bankrupt Merrimac Paper Co. who accepted promissory notes when cashing out their Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP) are not...

December 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the agency that insures private defined benefit (DB) pension plans, has announced that the maximum insurance benefit...

December 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case that would have helped clarify standards that relate to suing an employer who...

December 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Labeling the matter of United Airlines' support for its pension plans "a critical issue", the US Department of Labor (DoL) told a bankruptcy...

December 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has ruled that 46 employees' benefits were not unfairly reduced when their division was sold off to the division's managers.

December 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A $1.125 million settlement agreement between Franklin Mint Co. and a group of workers who accused the company of breaching its fiduciary duties...

December 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The North Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that a divorce court was in error when ruling that a husband's disability payments resulting from...

December 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA) can be shielded when holders file for bankruptcy.

December 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two large companies doing business in Oklahoma are battling in federal court to block a new state law allowing workers parking in company...

December 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Charles Novak, the former vice president and business agent of Local One of the International Union of Elevator Constructors in New York, has...

December 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced a revision to the instruction for the 2004 Form 1099-R, which retirement plans file to report...