Compliance

October 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Four Congressional anti-cash balance plan activists jubilantly claimed a victory Friday after getting word that the Bush Administration would pursue its cash balance...

October 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - All benefit denial decisions by an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plan administrator are to be reviewed under the "heightened arbitrary and...

October 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released the new retirement plan limits for tax year 2004.

October 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Questions of fact still remain in a case involving a terminated employee's Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) benefits, thus precluding summary judgment.

October 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA Lawyers in Mid-Atlantic states may get a clear legal signal after all about whether ERISA-case plaintiffs can also sue under Pennsylvania's bad-faith...

October 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill to safeguard the privacy of genetic information and bar discrimination in health insurance...

October 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A health plan's subrogation case has been transferred to the US District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois.

October 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New rules imposing a 20% excise tax on golden parachute payments actually kicked in this summer, even though they won't fully go into...

November 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bitter battle between giant US health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and 600,000 doctors over how much the physicians get reimbursed for HMO patient...

November 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Department of Labor officials (DoL) have announced the last set of exemptions to excise taxes imposed on prohibited transactions corrected under the...

October 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The estate of a man covered by an employer accidental death plan can't sue the plan's administrator under an Illinois law for delaying...

October 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Labor Relations Board scored a big win with a settlement worth $17.6 million in severance benefits.

October 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Failure to notify an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) participant of an impending merger at the time of the ESOP payout is not...

October 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case to determine if the American With Disabilities Act (ADA) protects recovered drug-addicts from discrimination...

October 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Imaging giant Xerox Corp., suffered another setback in the legal defense of its cash balance plan when the US Supreme Court refused to...

October 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given a tentative approval to a controversial plan to make it easier for shareholders to...

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal pension investigators have demanded access to documents dating back in 1999 relating to pension benefits offered by the United Way of the...

October 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A material misrepresentation of a retirement incentive plan not yet implemented by the company given to an employee prior to their retirement constitutes...

October 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation has been introduced in the United States Senate to amend the Internal Revenue Code to modify the tax treatment of domestic partner...

October 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Admitting that tax laws can be "complex," the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has rolled out new materials to assist small businesses and plan...