Compliance

August 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued instructions on how tax filers are to report 2004 distributions from a health savings account (HSA)...

August 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Washington state judge has ruled barring same-sex marriages serves no "state interest" and violates the constitutional right of these couples to due...

August 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York City has become one of the latest municipalities requiring city contractors to offer domestic partner benefits to their employees; leaving plan...

August 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Enron Corp., is waging a new battle against the private pension plan insurer to keep the agency from taking over four of the...

August 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ordered the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to publicly disclose the names of companies with the worst...

August 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation has been introduced in the US Senate and House of Representatives requiring full disclosure by mutual fund groups of market timing in...

August 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The SPARK Institute, a 401(k) industry group, has submitted its plan to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for allowing intermediaries to...

August 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A short-term disability (STD) plan administrator's denial of a request for benefits was arbitrary and capricious and in violation of the Employee Retirement...

August 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has removed four trustees from the board of the Plumbers and Pipefitters National Pension Fund in a long...

March 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) has introduced a new bill that would give workers whose retirement accounts were hit by an employer's malfeasance or...

March 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A $1.11 million employee discrimination settlement has been reached between Stockton Steel, a subsidiary of the Herrick Corporation, and the US Equal Employment...

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) - 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 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 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.