Compliance

May 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has proposed regulations to draw a general distinction between the "deemed IRA" and the rest of the qualified plan.

May 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A home restoration company is not liable for the murder of a woman by a former employee.

May 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Representative Gene Green (D-Texas) and 14 co-sponsors have introduced a bill in the US House of Representatives aimed at reducing the use...

May 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Proponents of a Maine state law designed to force drug companies to lower prescription drug prices for needy recipients won a narrow legal...

May 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The termination of an employee who managed the family restaurant while on leave from his other employer is not a violation of the...

May 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An inmate's pension payments deposited directly into a prison's general account for disbursement does not violate ERISA.

May 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Turmoil continued in France over a proposed public-employee pension reform that would cut worker benefits, even as the government tried to engage labor...

May 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York state jury ordered the Elite Model Management agency to pay $5.27 million to a former employee who charged that her...

May 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Caps on annual pension plan payments that maintain a plan's tax-qualified status take precedence over information to the contrary in an employer's plan...

May 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private detective work attempting to prove the contrary was not enough for Taco Bell to convince a Louisiana Court of Appeals that an...

May 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has repeated an earlier ruling involving workplace arbitration agreements that a national retailer's arbitration program can't be enforced because...

May 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House of Representatives has approved a bill that would lower legal barriers that bar investment firms from offering participants financial advice for...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONOR.com) - Retirees of Dayco Products LLC, who claim a collective bargaining agreement gives them no-cost health insurance benefits, may proceed with their class action...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirees from the badly ailing US steel industry who lose their health insurance coverage would get a helping hand from new Congressional legislation...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with a "pension time bomb" as countries around the globe struggle to mend their ailing retirement savings systems, European Union (EU) member...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The legislative stage has been set for a vote by the US House of Representatives on the Pension Security Act, a sweeping pension...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate Finance Committee has included provisions in its $441 billion tax bill to tax certain deferred compensation plans and deny deferral of...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An ESOP trustee who approved a loan repayment after the company was acquired by another firm didn't breach its ERISA fiduciary duties, an...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Printing giant R.R. Donnelley & Sons has agreed to pay $150,000 to a paraplegic graphics technician who was refused additional work as a...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Supreme Court justices have refused to take a Texas case that would have allowed them to consider shielding states from unequal pay...