Compliance

March 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge awarded $75,000 to the lone female employee in a metal parts factory who tried twice to commit suicide because of...

March 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has taken issue with a ruling that the termination of a post-retirement cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) did not violate ERISA's...

March 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An atmosphere that has found increasing numbers of 401(k) participants willing to take their employer to court for retirement-plan misdeeds had led to...

March 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors hoping for some defined benefit relief might have some reason for hope.

March 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Christine Hawk may have put off formally complaining about her boss's sexual harassment for nine months, but she can still pursue a federal...

February 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is seeking public comment on a proposed rule that would remove restrictions that currently inhibit the agency's...

February 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA does not bar a medical malpractice lawsuit against a health maintenance organization for denying blood cancer treatment for a health plan participant.

February 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal anti-discrimination agency has given two former workers of fashion-design company Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. permission to sue the company for racial...

February 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Those retirees lucky enough to have employer-sponsored health coverage have, in a growing number of cases, seen that benefit come under attack by...

February 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Wisconsin state legislator is trying again with his proposal to shelter the first $5,000 of pension fund earnings, but not assets from...

February 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-- The US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) "is not in crisis" according to the Bush Administration's fiscal 2005 budget.

February 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As widely expected, the Bush Administration's FY 2005 budget reintroduced a provision to consolidate a variety of workplace retirement plans into a single...

February 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite a fierce struggle to block the Bush Administration from proposing rules allowing companies to convert from a cash balance plan to a...

January 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vermont Supreme Court found a former wife is entitled to a percentage of her husband's pension at the same time he is...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has provided guidance to plan sponsors for charging a former employee's account for plan expenses, without necessarily charging...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has provided guidance to plan sponsors on how to request a waiver of minimum funding standards of Internal...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement plans that separately account for rollover contributions do not have to treat distributions of those amounts to the restrictions on permissible timing.

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors that are having difficulty determining if their retirement plans are subjected to the top-heavy rules of Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If the C-suite wants to know how certain acquisitions or dispositions are going to affect nondiscriminatory contributions, plan sponsors now have a resource...

January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush's plans allowing younger workers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in the stock market has an AARP leader...