Compliance

August 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An insurance plan provider did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) in denying a plan beneficiary's claim for benefits after...

August 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released model 457 plan amendment documents.

August 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three former pension trustees and officers have been sentenced in federal district court in Portland, Oregon for activity associated with accepting gratuities from...

August 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A government watchdog group is concerned the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) "hard close" proposal to combat late-trading and market-timing abuses could do...

August 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has thrown out a terminated employee's lawsuit against his former employer over continuing health-care coverage notice problems, ruling the worker...

August 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal district court has held a third-party administrator (TPA) did not use proper discretion in retracting health benefits paid to a former...

August 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has $75 million in unclaimed pension benefits the agency is trying to reunite with the 26,000 beneficiaries.

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) - 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 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...

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 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...

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...