Compliance

December 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators on Friday formally declared that directed trustees under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) are to be considered fiduciaries and...

December 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The interim final rules under the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) have been extended again to December 31, 2005.

December 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Ohio Supreme Court upheld a 92-year old practice Wednesday in ruling that non-lawyers handling workers' compensation cases were not illegally practicing law.

December 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Vested benefits of unmarried pensioners can be legally forfeited under the Employer Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) if benefits have not yet been paid...

December 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A participant in the K plan of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. will get another chance to prove to a jury that plan trustees...

December 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has refused to force the issuer of flexible premium variable life insurance policies to allow trustees of a profit-sharing plan...

December 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Julia Ann Glanzman may have had a legal leg to stand on when she filed an age discrimination suit after being told her...

December 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has ruled that a long-term disability benefit plan cannot offer higher levels of benefits for physically disabled claimants than it...

December 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that a former security guard fired for displaying a Confederate flag sticker on...

December 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush has signed into law language that extends from 18 to 24 months the continuation group health coverage requirements in the Uniformed...

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...