Compliance

October 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's accounting rulemakers have tentatively decided to expand their ongoing cash balance plan project to all plans featuring lump-sum distributions including equity...

October 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kansas woman trying to get health coverage for an ear implant won a sweeping legal victory when a federal judge ordered her...

October 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SmithKline Beecham Corp. has agreed to a $5.2 million settlement with a group who filed a class action suit contending that the company...

October 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit over inadequate continuing health coverage notices under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), saying...

October 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Connecticut federal judge has thrown out a denial of health-care coverage lawsuit against Aetna Life Insurance Co., saying the employer's third-party administrator...

October 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US District Court of Massachusetts judge has ruled that a telephone call to an insurer is not enough to change beneficiary status...

October 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bankruptcy court in North Carolina has ruled that a former husband does not have an enforceable lien on his ex-wife's 401(k) funds...

October 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal district court judge has ruled that a fiduciary that has been unsuccessfully sued by plan participants cannot recover legal fees incurred...

October 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A long-running legal dispute over whether federal benefits law pre-empts state statutes in health-care coverage disputes has drawn to a close with a...

October 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's highest court on Tuesday sidestepped an effort by a national restaurant company to rule on whether it must pay its workers...

October 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A prominent California Democrat has introduced a measure that would block companies that don't fund their pension plans or convert them to cash...

October 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California federal court judge has thrown out a lawsuit by the domestic partner of a dead participant in the Charles Schwab &...

October 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Citing a Supreme Court decision as precedent, an Ohio Court of Appeals has ruled that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) preempts...

October 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California jury has awarded a former executive of software manufacturer Sybase Inc. $1.8 million over charges of racial discrimination.

October 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - By a vote of 69 to 17, the US Senate approved HR 4520 on Monday, which will, among other things, change the tax...

October 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has extended the deadline for filing Form 5500 and Form 5500 EZ because...

October 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Wal-Mart employee who lost her job after suffering kidney failure can sue the giant retailer because "cleansing the blood and processing...

October 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite being named as an 'administrator' in a health plan's summary plan document (SPD), a life insurance company cannot be sued under the...

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...