Compliance

October 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cash, stock and improvements in the company's corporate governance structure were among the terms of a settlement between Enterasys Networks, Inc. and investors.

October 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate on Thursday voted to block US Treasury officials from issuing regulations allowing companies to convert from traditional pensions to cash...

October 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have proposed a rule change to expand the permitted collateral for securities-lending transactions as well as allowing securities to be loaned...

October 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US mutual fund companies got a stern reminder from federal securities regulators about the requirement that the fund houses properly disclose that their...

October 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors wondering if they should be doing anything, or anything differently, in light of the mutual fund trading allegations could find encouragement...

October 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Refusing to hear a case that would have allowed the justices to set standards for mass lawsuits alleging securities fraud, the US Supreme...

October 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government can garnish a participant's 401(k) plan account to pay a criminal fine without disqualifying the plan, the Internal Revenue Service...

October 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Add the US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to a "rising judicial chorus" of courts struggling with Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)...

October 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The widow of a Michigan man killed in a 2000 car accident when police said he was drunk has lost a legal battle...

October 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Four Congressional anti-cash balance plan activists jubilantly claimed a victory Friday after getting word that the Bush Administration would pursue its cash balance...

October 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - All benefit denial decisions by an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plan administrator are to be reviewed under the "heightened arbitrary and...

October 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released the new retirement plan limits for tax year 2004.

October 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Questions of fact still remain in a case involving a terminated employee's Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) benefits, thus precluding summary judgment.

October 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A health plan's subrogation case has been transferred to the US District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois.

October 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New rules imposing a 20% excise tax on golden parachute payments actually kicked in this summer, even though they won't fully go into...

October 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA Lawyers in Mid-Atlantic states may get a clear legal signal after all about whether ERISA-case plaintiffs can also sue under Pennsylvania's bad-faith...

October 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill to safeguard the privacy of genetic information and bar discrimination in health insurance...

November 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bitter battle between giant US health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and 600,000 doctors over how much the physicians get reimbursed for HMO patient...

November 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Department of Labor officials (DoL) have announced the last set of exemptions to excise taxes imposed on prohibited transactions corrected under the...

October 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The estate of a man covered by an employer accidental death plan can't sue the plan's administrator under an Illinois law for delaying...