Compliance

October 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)'s deficit should be "significantly increased" from its record $11.2 billion 2003 shortfall, the agency's director said in...

October 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush, in the midst of a hard-fought reelection campaign, stopped Monday in Iowa to sign his fourth tax cut in as many...

October 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US District Court judge has granted class action status to WorldCom Inc. 401(k) plan participants, who allege that the plan's directed trustee...

October 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) will challenge a federal appeals court ruling from last week that denied shutdown benefits to thousands of...

October 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has launched a legal attack against the trustees and services providers of the H.E.R.E. Local 4-69 Health Fund...

October 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former employee of a Marietta, Georgia polyurethane systems supplier has won the right to pursue his corporate fiduciary breach claims over the...

October 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US appeals court ruled Friday that the federal government is not required to pay employees of a failed manufacturer "shutdown pensions" that...

October 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has expanded its customer service hours by 2 hours a day.

October 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assessing the first year under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) federal health information privacy rule, the Government Accountability Office (GAO)...

January 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Pension Welfare Benefit Administration (PWBA) has announced increases in three civil monetary penalties (CMP) for ERISA noncompliance.

January 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Supreme Court justices have turned down a request for them to decide whether ERISA cases favor awarding lawyer fees to prevailing parties.

January 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has located nearly 15,000 workers who were owed more than $61 million in pension benefits since launching...

January 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sen. Edward Kennedy is calling for mandatory employer-provided health insurance at all but the smallest US companies.

January 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund executives will now be held to some of the same type disclosure standards as publicly-traded firms, according to the Securities and...

September 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors now have access to guidance from the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) regarding their responsibilities in locating missing...

September 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kansas federal judge has turned away efforts to throw out a participant company stock lawsuit against Sprint Corporation's directors, green lighting plaintiffs'...

September 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's (DoL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have...

September 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has obtained a consent judgment that would require three former trustees of a health and pension plan to...

September 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lawsuit has been brought against Aquila Inc., contending that the company breached its fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

September 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) released its final regulations mandating that certain distributions of retirement plan benefits must now be automatically rolled over...