Compliance

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...

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.

July 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's federal private pension insurer on Thursday announced it had taken over the Kaiser Aluminum Inactive Pension plan, which it said has...

July 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld an order by the federal private pension insurer that a Texas hospital pay more than $3 million...

July 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A health insurance plan administrator's e-mail response to a plan participant's request for plan coverage effectively exhausted the participant's administrative remedies.

July 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An individual born female, who is now male, cannot marry a female due to Florida prohibitions on same-sex marriage.

July 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal tax officials on Monday announced their "honey do" list when it comes to areas on which they'd like to issue official guidance...

July 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Word from UAL that the bankrupt air carrier can't make its required payments to the pension plan has drawn a demand from the...

July 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A perceived burden on the company's health-care cost was not the motivation behind an employee's termination, a district court has determined.

July 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former executives of a now bankrupt corporation did not have a duty to speak about the company's future performance prior to an employee's...

July 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers unsure about how to navigate their way through the labyrinth of laws and regulations regarding health savings accounts (HSA) now have a...

July 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Terminating "lifetime" welfare benefits is not a breach of fiduciary duty if plan documents do not specifically prohibit future amendments to the plan.

July 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation has been introduced to give Americans more control over their Social Security funds.

July 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DoR) released Technical Information Release (TIR) 04-17 to clarify the implication of same-sex marriages in Massachusetts on...

July 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has introduced a Congressional measure that would give Americans a tax break for investing in annuities that...