Compliance

July 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A pension disability plan does not have to pay retroactive benefits to a plan participant prior to the two years of benefits provided...

June 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A dozen defendants have been charged with a litany of federal law violations in connection with the financial transactions of the City of...

June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State of Ohio pension officials will have new ethics and accountability standards to follow, under a reform bill penned by Governor Bob Taft.

June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a woman afflicted with multiple sclerosis (MS) was entitled to long-term disability (LTD) benefits despite a...

June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge turned back efforts by a retiree who was a participant in a defined contribution retirement plan to force the plan...

June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—A couple's estrangement is not a "legal separation" or qualifying event under COBRA, and therefore a company cannot provide an election notice upon such a...

June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials at the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have released proposed models for trust/custodial agreements for Health Savings Accounts...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kansas federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after a June 2001 motorcycle...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Quakers' refusal to comply with a levy on the earnings of a Quaker employee and "war tax protestor," makes the Quakers directly liable for all...

June 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has issued two technical corrections to its previously published guidance on notice requirements of the health care continuation...

June 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former employee of a New York City law firm has won his battle with his employer's disability insurance provider over whether he...

June 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former trial lawyer at a Cincinnati law firm has won an important victory in her court battle for long-term disability (LTD) payments...

June 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A San Francisco federal judge has given the green light to a gender discrimination lawsuit against the giant retailer Wal-Mart proceeding as a...

June 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Treasury Department have issued more Health Savings Account guidance to help high deductible health plans...

June 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's high court on Monday blocked an avenue for patients interested in suing their HMO in state court for big damage awards...

June 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A retired bank chief executive officer (CEO) will get his day in court after his firm provided him with false stock option exercise...

June 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy (D - Massachusetts) has introduced legislation to mandate employers offer workers paid time off.

June 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Measures pending in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives would crack down on payroll agents who lie on client tax records...

June 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A retiree who accepts an offer to waive health-care benefits in exchange for enhanced pension benefits has had their retiree health coverage reduced.

June 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The torrid on-again, off-again relationship between the Bush administration and regulations governing cash balance regulations is off-again.