Compliance

May 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The controversy over cash-balance conversions shorting retiring workers heated up as a Congressman released a list of 13 US offending companies, which the...

September 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department are requesting public comment on the mortality tables used to determine current defined benefit...

September 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) can be sued for a breach of fiduciary duties surrounding its calculation of pension benefits for former...

September 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer's ERISA-governed health plan's escape clause - that provides the plan is not responsible for paying a participant's health costs if that...

September 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The "perfect storm" of pension problems has washed up a $5.7-billion deficit on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) doorstep as of July...

March 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senate Republicans moved to shut down committee votes yesterday in retaliation for the rejection of a federal appeals court nominee. That temporarily delayed...

March 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Responding to the Enron debacle, which saw many employees losing their retirement savings through investments in Enron stock, a Senate committee passed legislation...

September 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Church-sponsored pension plans would be able to invest in collective trusts under a bill set for a vote in the US House of...

September 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kentucky public library's firing of a female employee for wearing a necklace with a cross pendant to work has been found unconstitutional.

September 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers at companies with a health care flexible spending account (FSA) who have to pick up an antacid for an upset stomach or...

March 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal labor officials have filed suit against the president of a New York City-based union for allegedly improperly cashing union health plan checks...

March 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 100 current and former Xerox employees in four states have complained to federal anti-discrimination officials that they are racial and gender...

February 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has decided to allow Enron workers access to financial documents that already have been provided to congressional investigators.

February 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A second company stock-based lawsuit has been filed against newly bankrupt Global Crossing.

February 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Conseco Inc has agreed to pay $120 million to settle a class action lawsuit led by two firefighters' pension funds in which the...

September 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have taken the trustees of seven union pension and health plans in Ohio and Minnesota to court for imprudently investing plan...

September 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal Labor Department regulators have proposed to narrow restrictions on transactions with parties in interest who can invest a plan's assets in a...

January 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The list of states and state retirement systems joining a class-action suit against Enron continues to grow, with as much as $1 billion...

January 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Revenue Procedure 2003-7, providing guidance on applying to the IRS for a waiver of the 60-day...

January 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lower-court judge was not off base when he ordered the husband in a divorce case to directly pay his wife her share...