Compliance

January 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Supreme Court justices declined to review a case involving the amount of death benefits due the family of a Massachusetts police officer who...

January 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Supreme Court justices have agreed to decide whether a worker's doctor can overrule the administrator of a workplace disability plan on whether...

September 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts State Representative Byron Rushing wants Bay State laws to prevent workplace discrimination against overweight employees.

September 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With prescription drug purchases from Canada on the political hot plate, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said nearly 90% of the imported...

September 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has come out with formal recommendations on a range of new rules for hedge funds, in...

September 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Electrolux Group has reached a settlement with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a religious discrimination case filed by 165...

September 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Doctors claiming they have been cheated out of the fees they are owed have been awarded class action status in their Racketeer Influenced...

September 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to recommend hedge fund registration, opening the door to SEC oversight.

September 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees should not be taxed for expenses incurred during an annual company fishing trip that was part of the regular course of business.

September 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials are giving companies that took the brunt of Hurricane Isabel's fury more time to file their Form 5500 paperwork.

September 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Providing an inaccurate projection of pension benefits - even over a number of years - did not constitute a fiduciary breach, according to...

September 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ruling in a case involving a death benefits claim by a common-law spouse, a Pennsylvania appeals court has thrown out the legal doctrine...

September 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Senate Finance Committee has given unanimous approval to Chairman Charles Grassley's (R-Iowa) pension reform legislation.

September 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tacked onto the recent passage of a US Senate retirement reform bill was a requirement for companies to pay taxes on death benefits...

September 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A prominent Republican Congressman has proposed a temporary patch for the problems created by the effective demise of the 30-year Treasury bond benchmark.

September 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An amendment made to a retiree medical benefit plan to exclude workers younger than 50 years of age was not in violation of...

September 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Allstate Insurance Co. has asked a Philadelphia federal judge to dismiss the current age discrimination suit pending against the company.

September 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court apparently won't get the chance to dig its legal teeth into a meaty ERISA pre-emption controversy that has been...

September 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal jury determined former Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) vice president Walid Maghribi was not forced to quit after his bosses questioned...

September 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush administration still has pension reform on its radar screen, including a push to limit increased benefit committments from underfunded pension plans,...