Compliance

December 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Colorado man received an18 month prison sentence after being found guilty of embezzling more than $1.7 million from the International Longshoreman's Association...

November 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an opinion prepared for a retirement industry trade group, a University of Chicago law professor asserts that legislative amendments blocking the government...

October 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has thrown out a $50,000 sexual harassment damage award after ruling that the plaintiff hadn't proven the explicit comments...

October 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congress may have laid out general reform measures to deal with the corporate world's financial scandals, but it is up to the US...

September 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -California's Governor Gray Davis signed a sweeping family leave bill into law today, making it the first state with such a law allowing most...

September 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Minimum required distributions from qualified retirement plans are forcing seniors to take money they do not need, according to a new report.

September 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has determined that a vision impairment did not necessarily rise to the level of a disability, affording employers some...

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...

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 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...

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...