Compliance

May 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - People receiving a free echocardiogram to check for heart valve damage from using a diet drug won't have to pay taxes on the...

April 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private pension reform alone is unlikely to significantly broaden pension coverage for lower income workers, a recently released report by the Government Accounting...

March 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First Union has settled two participant class action lawsuits related to its 401(k) plan for $26 million.

February 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Linda Chavez, President Bush's initial choice for Secretary of Labor, is forming an independent "watchdog" group to keep an eye on union involvement...

January 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Philadelphia firefighter, who complained colleagues discriminated against him because they thought he was gay, cannot sue unless he can prove that...

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...

January 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A case that will lay ground rules for patients unhappy with the doctors in their insurers' networks, and want the networks to pay...

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The Internal Revenue Service has issued guidelines on companies taking a new tax deduction on dividends passed through to employees holding company stock as...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors trying to figure out what to make of the interim final rules on blackout notices might draw insights from public comment...

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...

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...

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...

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...

November 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It seemed inevitable that Enron Corp. would be fanning the flames of a class action suit over its embattled 401(k) plan after last...

November 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -In what appears to be an emerging trend, employees of embattled energy trading giant Enron sued their employer for endangering their retirement funds --causing...

October 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A defrocked executive of Zippo Manufacturing Co. forced out over allegations he misappropriated company funds is out of luck when it comes to...

September 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The lobbying arm of a retirement services industry group is pressing for lawmakers to drop a provision in pension reform legislation adding more...

September 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A female plaintiff's wage discrimination claim was allowed to proceed after a federal district court noted ambiguities in the case law on such...

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.

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...