Compliance

August 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Differing views on whether plaintiffs pursuing ERISA benefits claims can also sue for punitive damages has produced a pair of dueling opinions from...

November 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer did not violate the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) when it fired a worker after he took a day off...

November 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A measure which passed a United State Senate committee Wednesday closes a potential loophole in a 1996 insurance anti-discrimination law allowing health plans...

May 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Five law firms are among more than a dozen defendants who have agreed to shell out a total of $109 million as part...

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Contrary to arguments from women and senior's groups that maintaining the current Social Security system was vital to ensuring women's financial security, a recent finding...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At issue in a case that could end up before the US Supreme Court case is whether legal claims involving employee stock ownership...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating whether Franklin Covey acted properly by loaning managers money to buy company shares, according to...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There's yet another post-Enron pension protection bill on the horizon, this one introduced last week by Senators John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and Olympia Snowe...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined benefit plan participants will get between 15 and 45 days notice before implementation of significant plan changes likely to cut future benefit...

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors adversely impacted by California's massive wildfires have been granted a certain measure of relief from the nation's private pension insurer.

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State and government plan sponsors have been almost uniformly ecstatic about recent IRS regulations - but the deferral of sick and vacation pay...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Converting to a cash balance plan with a "wear-away" provision to cut off participants' anticipated benefits does not violate ERISA's prohibition on forfeiture...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), looking down the barrel of an $18.3-million budget shortfall, is considering sending its 2,783 employees on an...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US defined benefit pension system desperately needs systematic reform as it struggles with an underfunding epidemic that now exceeds a record $300...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 50 employers with defined benefit plans have formed their own lobbying group to do publicity about the DB arrangements and to...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As expected, securities regulators issued a report showing that nearly one in three transactions in front-end load mutual funds didn't get the breakpoint...

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has decertified the remaining 25% of a class action involving promised retiree medical benefits at Unisys, ruling that the remaining...

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has turned away claims by a participant in the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) that the fund violated ERISA...

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of more than 70 lawmakers has sponsored a bill to help provide health insurance to more Americans.

January 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forget about the Super Bowl, the emergence of Puxatawny Phil or Valentine's Day, when Congress reconvenes today the nation's legislators will be turning...