Compliance

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...

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...

February 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Bank & Trust, the trustee for UAL Corp's employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) may not sell off UAL ESOP shares, a...

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...