Compliance

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 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 federal pension insurer is waiving certain penalties and extending certain deadlines for filing the required annual Form 5500 for employers in several...

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...

July 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A retirement plan's summary plan description (SPD) violated ERISA disclosure requirements when it failed to divulge the need to file an affidavit for...

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A woman who sued her employer for not keeping up her COBRA health insurance coverage even though she sent in the required payments...

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer-sponsored health plan administrator acted within its discretion when it rescinded the insurance of a plan participant who made material misrepresentations on...

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The proliferation of individuals attempting to skirt employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) S corporation income tax requirements has led to a temporary stopgap...

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a message for plan sponsors: Don't include any information on your Form 5500 about fringe benefit plans...

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The "ayes" had it in the US House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee voice vote to send the Pension Preservation and Savings...

July 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against regional commuter airline Trans States Airlines, Inc. alleging the company discriminated...

July 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Failing to disclose accurate information to participants putting 401(k) dollars in Williams Companies Inc.'s stock may equal a breach in fiduciary duties -...

July 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal agencies may have made progress in employing a diverse workforce during FY 2002, but they still have a ways to go when...

July 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush Administration's torch for pension interest rate reform has flickered out, as the US House of Representative's Ways and Means Committee will...

July 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Union bulletin boards in post offices are not exempt from a federal law that bars political activity in government facilities.

July 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a move likely to (at least initially) engender heartburn on the part of plan sponsors and providers alike, today the Treasury Department...