Restaurateur Hit with $1.55-Million Sex Harassment Award
June 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Tampa, Florida federal court jury has slapped a restaurant firm with a $1.55 million jury verdict in a sexual harassment lawsuit.
SD High Court: Death Does Not Part Ex's Monthly Pension Payments
June 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension benefits awarded to a former spouse in a divorce settlement will continue to be paid out - even beyond the grave, the...
Court: No Itemization Needed on Aggregated Plan Expenses
June 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Multiemployer pension fund trustees didn't have to disclose an itemized break down of expenses that are reported to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)...
WorldCom 401(k) Stock Suit Survives
June 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge says there is evidence to support a 401(k) participant suit against WorldCom officials and recordkeeper Merrill Lynch for breach of...
Court: SPD Beats Plan Document Only in Language Conflict
June 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has upheld a benefits denial by a disability plan administrator, saying that a summary plan description (SPD) trumps a plan...
Coke Finds No Truth In Lawsuit Allegations
June 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An investigation by an independent counsel and auditor have revealed no evidence to support allegations of accounting fraud and employee discrimination made in...
Overworked Jurist's Widow Wins Skirmish in Negligence Suit Fight
June 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - No one could have ever called Frank Kinney Jr. a slacker when he was a New Haven (Connecticut) Superior Court jurist.
EEOC Asks Judge To Reinstate Southern Company Discrimination Case
June 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is petitioning a federal appeals court to reinstate an employment discrimination suit against Southern Company...
Iowa Court Rules California Resident's Case To Be Heard in Iowa
June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court in Iowa has personal jurisdiction over a California-based health plan participant sued by his Iowa-administered health plan.
Court: Life Insurance Policy Never Activated
June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The widow of an employer-sponsored life insurance plan lost her bid for $100,000 in insurance benefits because the plan participant called in sick...
Female Ontario Public Workers To Receive Pay Equity Funding
June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately 100,000 women across Ontario, Canada will receive C$414 million in pay equity funding from the Ontario Government.
Judge: CA Competition Law Fair Game in Discrimination Cases
June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawyers in California now have another potential weapon in their fight against employment discrimination as a result of a state appeals court ruling...
Judge: Worker Should Have Gotten Family Leave
June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former postal worker should have been granted Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave to care for her daughter, who had a...
Bill Limits Military Loan Interest Rate
June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer-sponsored retirement plan or other type of lender can't charge borrowers on military leave more than 6% interest, under a bill approved...
Federal Domestic Partner Benefit Legislation Introduced
June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation has been introduced in both the United States House of Representatives and Senate offering domestic partners of federal employees the same protections...
State Law Claim For Non-payment of Coverage Not ERISA Preempted
June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A hospital's state law claim alleging a health plan negligently represented that it would provide coverage for a plan participant's medical care is...
Weldon Proposes Bill To Repeal 1993 Social Security Tax
June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Representative Dave Weldon (R-Florida) has introduced HR 2439 to repeal the 1993 Social Security tax increase and postpone the required distribution age...
Pomeroy Pushes Annuity Distribution Tax Break
June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers who take pension benefits in an annuity would be allowed to shield $3,000 of that money from federal income tax under a...
Judge: Pension Funds Not Shielded for Restitution Payment
June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA's anti-alienation provision doesn't shield a participant whose only assets are in a pension fund from having to make court-ordered restitution, according to...
Appeals Court: Voucher Program Elimination Violated ERISA
June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A move by a New Orleans-area supermarket company to drop its grocery voucher program for retirees violated ERISA because the voucher program was...