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Bush Orders Pension Review

January 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush has asked the US Treasury Department to review US pension regulations in the wake of the collapse of energy trading giant...
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PBGC to Wait For IRS Cash Balance Regs

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer has pulled back a pending rule on cash balance plans until the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) clarifies its cash...
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Guidance Issued For HIPAA Compliance

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has issued Guidance to help organizations in complying with the...
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Court: Don't Factor in COLAs in Divorce

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Michigan appeals court has ruled that a divorced couple did not intend to include cost of living adjustment increases in the ex-wife's...
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Medco Agrees To Settlement

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merck & Co. subsidiary Medco Health Solutions, Inc., a prescription benefit manager (PBM), has agreed to a settlement worth $42.5 million in ERISA-related...
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Hewitt Outlines Plan Expense Issues

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ?Labor Department officials have "substantially liberalized" rules governing how much sponsors can charge back to their plan for participant communications, a consultant group says.
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Senate, House Make PBOR Moves

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After a full day of discussion Wednesday, the Senate will likely move closer to some consideration of the patients' bill of rights legislation...
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Judge Cuts Union Free from Lawsuit

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has dismissed the Communications Workers of America and two of its officials from a lawsuit brought by nine former Verizon...