Compliance

April 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has suggested that Enron intended to deceive the government by entering an agreement with State Street Corporation that...

March 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Long-term investors are more optimistic about the stock market's future and predict a return to a bull market by the fourth quarter.

March 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court handed employers a victory with a 5-4 ruling that companies do not have to tell workers that their maternity...

March 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has approved the terms of Bartell Drug Company's compensation for female employees denied coverage of prescription contraceptives.

March 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New Jersey woman who has been battling for half of her ex-husband's pension account won an important victory when a federal judge...

March 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer was in familiar territory with an announcement that it would take over a 68% funded pension plan from yet...

July 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The San Louis Obispo County Pension Trust is entitled to $3 million in lost investment income due to admitted professional negligence from its...

July 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Illinois appellate court has ruled that a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) can grant a former spouse pension and retirement benefits to...

July 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With sweeping implications for telecommuters, the New York Court of Appeals has determined unemployment insurance eligibility is determined by physical, and not virtual,...

July 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It doesn't violate ERISA for a trust company to take mutual fund fees in connection with an employer retirement plan's investment in those...

February 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There are growing signs that the new retirement savings vehicles touted just a week ago by the Bush Administration will never see the...

February 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Pennsylvania appeals court has ruled that two construction workers employed by different subcontractors can't sue each other for negligence because they were...

February 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The State of Iowa may be on the hook for as much as $30 million in back overtime, now that the US Supreme...

July 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee who resigned before being laid off has no standing to bring a claim for severance benefits.

July 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has jurisdiction over an employee's severance plan benefits claims because the plan is ERISA governed even if the employer isn't...

February 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A soft job market, an aging workforce, and post 09/11 tensions have contributed to the most job discrimination claims in seven years, according...

January 31, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Education and Workforce Committee may be restructured into five subcommittees and another subcommittee eliminated under a proposal introduced by Chairman John...

January 31, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.COM)-A senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Dallas is calling for privatizing social security, but the former CEO of the Federal Retirement Thrift...

January 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) is looking for input on the development of "safe harbors" for plan administrators...

January 7, 2003, (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush's economic stimulus package is likely to have some interesting consequences for plan sponsors and institutional investors.