Compliance

October 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A £130 million negligence case brought by Unilever's pension fund against Merrill Lynch's Mercury Asset Management has finally gone to trial in the...

October 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has agreed to pump $264 million into its pension plan as part of an agreement with the federal pension insurer.

October 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two of the most active pension reformers in Congress have unveiled their second piece of legislation that would in this case raise the...

October 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On the day a pension reform proposal was introduced in Congress to postpone required minimum distributions (RMD), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published...

October 27, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate vote on HR 2614 has been pushed back to Tuesday, October 31. HR 2614 is the tax bill containing the bipartisan...

October 27, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite threats of a Presidential veto, the House of Representatives Thursday passed HR 2614, a tax bill containing the bipartisan retirement savings package....

October 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has offered some guidance for plan sponsors on the ?saver?s credit,? an income tax credit for lower-income individuals...

October 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, on a party-line vote of 23 to 14, approved a $100 billion package of GOP-drafted tax...

October 15, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has declared October 27 ?assistance day? for Silicon Valley taxpayers who can't afford to pay the tax bills stemming from...

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has given employers with underfunded pension plans some clarification in the proper way to communicate with participants.

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In yet another sign of the softening economy, the federal government's pension insurer has picked up responsibility for the underfunded pension plan of...

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A long-term disability insurance administrator was out-of-bounds when it denied coverage to a Minnesota internist physician who was working part time while getting...

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has sanctioned a class action suit against the nation's largest employer for failure to offer health insurance coverage of birth...

August 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors may find it easier to help participants obtain investment advice if pension reformers U.S. Representatives. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Ben Cardin...

July 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senators John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania) plan to introduce legislation to protect workers from on-the-job religious discrimination.

July 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued new life expectancy tables to use in determining required minimum distributions.

July 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors and providers may now find it easier to gain approval for an exception from prohibited transaction rules under new guidelines.

June 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued an Atlanta church for firing three women after they complained about a church official making repeated sexual advances.

June 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A participant's account balance in a 457-government retirement plan can be held back from the person's bankruptcy estate, a federal judge ruled.

June 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has given plan sponsors some additional guidance on the new required minimum distribution rules with the publication of model...