Compliance

August 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though Louisiana health insurances already labor under 31 mandated health benefits, they won't get any more required coverages for four years.

December 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal jury says the nation's largest private employer has been forcing workers to work unpaid overtime.

December 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Hawaii's public pension fund is changing the way state worker benefits are figured and paid out and some public unions...

December 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer has worked out a deal to transfer a pension plan sponsored by a former Global Crossing unit to a...

November 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have almost another year to comply with GUST tax law changes, according to an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announcement.

August 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) will be getting back $500 million it is owed under a recently passed state Assembly bill.

August 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Autoerotic asphyxiation has been deemed an intentional self-inflicted injury and thus is not entitled to coverage under an accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D)...

August 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case to determine whether a doctor whose pension plan was ordered by the US...

September 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission took another step toward transparency yesterday, voting unanimously in support of a new rule that would require mutual...

September 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A provider that violated the terms of a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) was liable for a restoration of the benefits to the...

September 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Multinational US companies can be taken to task in American courts for helping those committing human rights violations abroad, a federal appeals court...

September 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The issue of ERISA preemption is still in active debate in courts as judges in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania continue to weigh...

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Washington State Supreme Court justices may not have been able to find legal authority in state law for forcing health plans to cover...

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of advocates for blind consumers have filed a lawsuit against E*Trade Group seeking to force its entire automatic teller machine (ATM)...

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Performing usual professional functions that do not include a controlling interest in a plan governed by ERISA does not subject an attorney to...

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An online travel services retailer has agreed to a $1.1-million out-of-court settlement of a federal court sexual harassment lawsuit alleging that the firm's...

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There was a distinct difference in perspective over a demand that National Semiconductor Corp. include a proxy vote about expensing stock options in...

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Newport, Rhode Island investment firm diverted more than $1 million in market returns due to clients into firm accounts instead, federal regulators...

August 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health benefit plans in North Carolina must now disclose to contract providers their fee and claims submission schedules and reimbursement policies before implementation.

August 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has approved a temporary lower funding requirement for the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union-Pacific Maritime Association's (ILWU-PMA)...