Compliance

May 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court upheld a lower court decision to throw out a suit by a Mississippi health-plan administrator demanding repayment from a...

May 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers belonging to ERISA-governed HMO plans can't file state-court lawsuits against their health maintenance organizations over rules that participants repay their health-care costs...

May 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An alternative dispute resolution program at Halliburton Co. got a boost with a Texas Supreme Court decision affirming an employer's right to force...

May 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a legal battle by a former New Jersey emergency medical technician who claimed he...

July 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Government regulators are apparently delving deeper into the use of revenue sharing arrangements by 401(k) plans.

March 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) recovery of $3 million from an employer on behalf of 800...

March 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Nebraska lighting company, which fired a bipolar employee by taping a note to the front door of his home, has settled a...

February 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer's decision not to renew an employee's contract after the employee filed a claim for benefits was not an ERISA violation or...

February 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to get Canadians to better plan for retirement, Canadian government officials have announced workers will be allowed to sock away...

January 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Gottesdiener Law Firm has asked the US Bankruptcy Court in New York to lift the automatic stay that has protected the company...

July 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors will not have to worry about increased disclosure requirements for some aspects of new pension plan disclosure rules on October 1.

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...