Compliance

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...

February 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) gave plan sponsors some helpful guidance last week on rollovers of S corporation stock to an individual requirement...

January 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has thrown out a $633,000 jury award in an age discrimination case involving Avon.

December 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California federal judge has backed a decision by a health plan administrator to cut off a laid-off employee from continued health coverage...

December 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal district court has ruled that an employee who exercised his stock options by placing them in a margin account and then...

November 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When Congress ended its lame duck session earlier this month, lawmakers had not closed the deal on bills that would revamp rules for...

November 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has reversed a 2000 decision by ruling that temporary workers can no longer bargain for benefits as...

November 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill mandating that employers provide returning service personnel with a notice telling them about their rights under the Uniform Services Employment and...

November 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that an insured's death from a heart attack at the time of a car accident was not...

November 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a Texan statute of limitation effectively bars a plaintiff's claims that an employer violated both the...

November 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Florida appeals court has refused to reinstate class-action status for a lawsuit brought against Wal-Mart that alleges that the retail giant forced...

November 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Canadian provincial appeals court has ruled that the federal government was wrong in limiting same-sex couples' retroactive pension benefits.

November 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a lower court erred in essentially ruling that an aggressor's death is not accidental if he...

November 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension reform may be on the legislative slate again, with US Representative Rob Andrews (D-New Jersey) expected to reintroduce a bill in January...

November 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Overturning a lower court's decision, the Hawaiian Supreme Court has ruled that a law that gives the state's insurance commissioner authority to conduct...

November 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Rhode Island Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court ruling by ordering a husband to pay his ex-wife retirement benefits even though...

November 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) is suing the trustees, plan administrators and other fiduciaries of the New Jersey Licensed Beverage Association health plan...

November 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - United Auto Workers legislative director Alan Reuther on Friday said that taxpayers should rescue the agency that backs US corporate pensions by covering...

November 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) filed a lawsuit against a Pipefitters union local, alleging officials diverted more than $36 million to the Konocti...

November 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) does not constitute a 'right to rest' for service personnel returning to work, an...