Compliance

March 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in two cases involving participants' rights in pursuing malpractice claims against a health maintenance...

March 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A consent decree has been obtained by the US Department of Labor (DoL) in a case of profit sharing plan assets used by...

March 17, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—A federal court in New York ruled that a company owed an employee who became a qualified beneficiary a formal COBRA notice within the specified...

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee who drove a go-cart into a parked truck, breaking his ankle, at the request of his boss can recover workers' compensation...

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A consent judgement has been reached in a case of pension plan assets used by the fund's advisor and life insurance company to...

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—A federal judge ruled that a group of former major league baseball players were not discriminated against, and are therefore not entitled to pension and...

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has proposed changes to the nondiscrimination rules for employees of tax-exempt organizations.

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)佩(k) administrative plan committee members may have breached their fiduciary duties by "encouraging" plan participants to examine financial reports that, unbeknownst to the participants, contained...

March 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—A letter written to an employer from an employee's doctor notifying the company that the employee should not work there, is sufficient notice for the...

March 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California's highest court has put the brakes on same-sex marriages being conducted in San Francisco pending further legal review of the issue.

December 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Court of Appeals has rejected the claims of two former AirTouch Communications Inc employees seeking an acceleration of stock option vesting...

December 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A pension plan revision that excludes certain retirees from a potential increase is invalid due to its adoption outside the employer's own plan...

November 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that severance agreements cannot prevent employees from seeking state unemployment compensation, according to a story...

March 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court in Maine has put the brakes on sweeping prescription drug legislation in the state, a decision applauded by a pharmaceutical...

March 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As April 15 looms only a month away, US Senate and House of Representative delegates have begun writing compromise legislation to replace the...

March 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new proposal by federal regulators designed to help curb abusive mutual fund trading would give investors detailed data about the managers of...

March 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A dearth of electronic Form 5500 filings has federal regulators scratching their heads and asking plan sponsors for constructive feedback.

March 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering alternatives to the agency's proposed 4 p.m. "hard close" rule aimed at ending illegal...

September 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A company which forfeited an unvested worker's stock purchase plan account didn't violate a Washington state law prohibiting employers from taking a "rebate"...

September 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former housekeeping manager for a Miami luxury cruise line who claimed she can't work because of a herniated disc suffered when lifting...