Compliance

August 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the US Treasury Department have finalized regulations guiding the exercise, and taxation, of incentive stock options (ISOs).

January 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unanimously adopted a series of rules as mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, including new rules...

January 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) by not providing a worker with a plan document, since at...

July 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension benefits used to satisfy a court's judgment in a criminal case do not run afoul of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's...

July 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance on the new prescription drug benefit that will become available to Medicare beneficiaries...

July 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former New York resident, granted stock options during his residency, is subject to state income tax once those options are exercised.

July 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A British judge ruled that KPMG could not reduce pension benefits without getting members' approval of the move and rejected the consultant's claims...

July 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance on the new prescription drug benefit that will become available to Medicare beneficiaries...

July 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that laid off Ontario workers are entitled to a share of any company pension surplus.

July 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's federal private pension insurer on Thursday announced it had taken over the Kaiser Aluminum Inactive Pension plan, which it said has...

July 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld an order by the federal private pension insurer that a Texas hospital pay more than $3 million...

July 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A health insurance plan administrator's e-mail response to a plan participant's request for plan coverage effectively exhausted the participant's administrative remedies.

July 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An individual born female, who is now male, cannot marry a female due to Florida prohibitions on same-sex marriage.

July 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal tax officials on Monday announced their "honey do" list when it comes to areas on which they'd like to issue official guidance...

July 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Word from UAL that the bankrupt air carrier can't make its required payments to the pension plan has drawn a demand from the...

July 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A perceived burden on the company's health-care cost was not the motivation behind an employee's termination, a district court has determined.

July 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former executives of a now bankrupt corporation did not have a duty to speak about the company's future performance prior to an employee's...

July 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers unsure about how to navigate their way through the labyrinth of laws and regulations regarding health savings accounts (HSA) now have a...

July 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Terminating "lifetime" welfare benefits is not a breach of fiduciary duty if plan documents do not specifically prohibit future amendments to the plan.

July 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation has been introduced to give Americans more control over their Social Security funds.