Compliance

August 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - United States Senator Judd Gregg (R-New Hampshire) has unveiled a bill that would use a composite corporate bond rate instead of the 30-year...

August 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Representative Bill Thomas (R-California) introduced a bill (HR. 2896) to replace the Foreign Sales Corporation-Extraterritorial Income Act (FSC-ETI) with a new tax...

March 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the aim of safeguarding America's retirement savings, committees of both the House of Representatives and the Senate are scheduled to vote on...

March 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholders of Compaq Computer Corp. overwhelmingly approved the proposed merger with Hewlett Packard Co (HP), according to Compaq officials.

March 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court let stand a federal appeals court ruling that a 401(k) participant can't sue his company's plan administrator for not...

March 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A debate over whether older workers can sue their employers over layoffs will play out in the US Supreme Court today.

January 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A $4.1 million settlement has been approved by a federal judge for 83 employees of communications company Aydin Corp who alleged unlawful overtime...

January 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension reform is a top priority on the Democratic legislative agenda for the new 108th Congress, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle announced.

January 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hours after passing through the House of Representatives, President Bush signed legislation authorizing additional unemployment benefits for up to 2.5 million Americans, the...

August 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Amending an employee injury plan to place a cap on the amount of benefits available did not violate ERISA.

August 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Employees of a Washington state company have won a nearly $2-million settlement of an ERISA lawsuit against their employer for selling a "diversified" portfolio...

August 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA does not completely preempt a participant's state law medical malpractice claim involving mixed eligibility and treatment decisions.

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California's domestic partnership registration law does not preempt a San Francisco ordinance requiring city contractors to provide nondiscriminatory benefits to employees with registered...

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though ERISA did not completely preempt wrongful discharge claims by a former employee, a federal appeals court found ERISA provisions still do...

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSPOR.com) - A Georgia firefighter suspended in an alleged violation of the First Amendment has petitioned the United States Supreme Court to hear his case.

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSPOR.com) - A Georgia firefighter suspended in an alleged violation of the First Amendment has petitioned the United States Supreme Court to hear his case.

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - States should have the right to regulate medical necessity treatment decisions made by health maintenance organizations as a "core power" without it being...

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former employee doesn't deserve benefits under a special severance plan designed to trigger in the event of a "change in control," if...

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lawsuit accusing American Skandia Life Assurance Corp. of misleading investors about the appropriateness of tax-deferred variable annuities for retirement plans has been...

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Big Blue got a black eye from a federal judge today, who ruled that IBM's pension plan conversion and operating assumptions violated age...