Compliance

November 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A measure which passed a United State Senate committee Wednesday closes a potential loophole in a 1996 insurance anti-discrimination law allowing health plans...

May 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Five law firms are among more than a dozen defendants who have agreed to shell out a total of $109 million as part...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At issue in a case that could end up before the US Supreme Court case is whether legal claims involving employee stock ownership...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating whether Franklin Covey acted properly by loaning managers money to buy company shares, according to...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There's yet another post-Enron pension protection bill on the horizon, this one introduced last week by Senators John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and Olympia Snowe...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined benefit plan participants will get between 15 and 45 days notice before implementation of significant plan changes likely to cut future benefit...

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors adversely impacted by California's massive wildfires have been granted a certain measure of relief from the nation's private pension insurer.

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Contrary to arguments from women and senior's groups that maintaining the current Social Security system was vital to ensuring women's financial security, a recent finding...

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State and government plan sponsors have been almost uniformly ecstatic about recent IRS regulations - but the deferral of sick and vacation pay...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Converting to a cash balance plan with a "wear-away" provision to cut off participants' anticipated benefits does not violate ERISA's prohibition on forfeiture...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), looking down the barrel of an $18.3-million budget shortfall, is considering sending its 2,783 employees on an...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US defined benefit pension system desperately needs systematic reform as it struggles with an underfunding epidemic that now exceeds a record $300...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 50 employers with defined benefit plans have formed their own lobbying group to do publicity about the DB arrangements and to...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As expected, securities regulators issued a report showing that nearly one in three transactions in front-end load mutual funds didn't get the breakpoint...

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of more than 70 lawmakers has sponsored a bill to help provide health insurance to more Americans.

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has decertified the remaining 25% of a class action involving promised retiree medical benefits at Unisys, ruling that the remaining...

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has turned away claims by a participant in the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) that the fund violated ERISA...

January 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forget about the Super Bowl, the emergence of Puxatawny Phil or Valentine's Day, when Congress reconvenes today the nation's legislators will be turning...

October 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee who is not enrolled in the company health plan, and thus not a participant, does not have standing to sue for...

October 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A "subsequent good act" of hiring an older worker after firing another worker alleging age discrimination may be submitted as relevant evidence in...