Compliance

July 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm has inked the last of five bills intended to reform the small business health insurance market through stabilizing costs...

July 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Trustees for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) are battening down the hatches in anticipation of a maelstrom of legal challenges to the...

July 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A South Carolina doctors' group has asked the US Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court ruling that Congress didn't give away...

July 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has taken retailer Kmart Corp. to court with allegations the company turned away a mentally disabled...

July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Preservation and Savings Expansion Act will have to wait until after the August congressional recess to learn its fate.

July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A plan participant who filed a fiduciary breach suit against a financial advisor isn't bound by a mandatory arbitration provision of an agreement...

July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately a third of corporate financial professionals are now being asked to "subcertify" data used in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reports, as...

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A company did not breach a contract with retired employees by terminating an unvested postretirement life insurance benefit.

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A class action suit filed by former employees that allege executive mismanagement of the company devalued the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) does...

July 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Chief Financial Officer (CFO) fired by his replacement - for legitimate business reasons - 16 months before qualifying for supplemental executive retirement...

July 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has come up with the equivalent of a frequently asked questions list for filing the required Form 5500...

July 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives Workforce Protections Subcommittee has passed three bills aimed at rewarding small business good-faith efforts to comply with the...

July 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Firing an employee for violating company policies prior to a scheduled layoff and subsequently refusing to pay out a previously agreed upon severance...

July 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal private pension insurer announced it intends to take over a 52%-funded pension plan for a Minnesota steel component manufacturer.

July 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The settling of old debts from a deceased participant's employer sponsored health plan has a statue of limitations; that once expired, bar the...

July 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has shot down Circuit City's mandatory arbitration contract for the third time in 18 months.

July 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health plans are under no obligation under Washington state law to cover every US Food and Drug Administration-approved prescription contraceptive, the state's high...

July 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Never being billed, combined with no indication that a participant would ever be billed, leads to a participant's lawsuit for unpaid medical bills...

July 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Ways and Means Committee passed the proposed Portman-Cardin bill on Friday, but it wasn't pretty - and it may not "take."

July 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The late introduction of a substitute amendment for pension reform touched off a firestorm in the House Friday - but what was in...