Compliance

October 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that a deferred compensation plan's administrative committee can be named as a defendant in a suit regarding a...

October 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Golden State plan sponsors will need to be aware of the effects of a new state law that will require all group health...

October 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), an HR professionals' trade group, has publicly given its kudos to President Bush for signing into...

October 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) now offers Spanish speakers their own version of the agency's Web site.

October 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an extremely significant development affecting the investment community, a badly divided US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered hedge fund managers...

October 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that a man whose toe was amputated due to diabetic complications cannot receive benefits from his company's Employee...

October 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASD has announced that it has fined Citigroup Global Markets $250,000 for distributing inappropriate sales literature regarding its hedge fund sales through its...

October 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives has approved a committee's compromise language on the American Jobs Creation Act tax bill, and the bill will...

October 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a woman who charged her employer didn't properly inform her of her continuing health care...

October 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered an employer to offer a fired employee the chance to choose continuing health care coverage and awarded...

October 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new lawsuit has alleged that more than 1,200 former Spartan International employees lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in retirement savings and...

October 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) achieved a record-breaking 121% increase in enforcement results in FY2004, according to a Department of Labor (DoL)...

October 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Ann Combs, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits Security, today announced, during a conference call, that the Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA) recovered and...

October 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), an insurer of private sector defined benefit retirement plans, has announced that it will assume responsibility for...

October 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US District Court has ruled that a profit-sharing plan administrator did not act unreasonably in altering the plan's valuation date in order...

October 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday release the cost of living adjustments applicable to dollar limitation for pension plans and other items for...

October 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has unanimously ruled that zero-tolerance drug tests are not unreasonable for people in dangerous work situations.

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...