Compliance

July 31, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Proponents of new Social Security legislation, which aims to create personal investment accounts financed by cutting benefits and raising income taxes, urged critics...

July 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) notice requirements only apply to health plans and therefore employers cannot be forced to provide life insurance...

July 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Another federal appeals court joined with its judicial brethren in finding that an employee benefit plan's summary plan description (SPD) trumps the plan's...

July 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a private letter ruling allowing participants in an IRA to exceed the 60-day rollover requirement in...

July 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors looking for that final bit of clarity on the so-called catch-up regulations now have it in the form of final regulations...

June 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senate Democrats have thrown a monkey wrench into the works of the White House's voluntary ergonomics plan by pushing forward new ergonomic legislation.

June 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former employee of a suburban Philadelphia company who received a fake note about erectile dysfunction may have been abused by coworkers, but...

May 31, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a key decision, a federal appellate court has held that "top hat" plans should be treated as unilateral contracts, rather than as...

April 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has suggested that Enron intended to deceive the government by entering an agreement with State Street Corporation that...

March 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer was in familiar territory with an announcement that it would take over a 68% funded pension plan from yet...

July 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The San Louis Obispo County Pension Trust is entitled to $3 million in lost investment income due to admitted professional negligence from its...

July 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Illinois appellate court has ruled that a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) can grant a former spouse pension and retirement benefits to...

July 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With sweeping implications for telecommuters, the New York Court of Appeals has determined unemployment insurance eligibility is determined by physical, and not virtual,...

July 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It doesn't violate ERISA for a trust company to take mutual fund fees in connection with an employer retirement plan's investment in those...

March 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Long-term investors are more optimistic about the stock market's future and predict a return to a bull market by the fourth quarter.

March 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court handed employers a victory with a 5-4 ruling that companies do not have to tell workers that their maternity...

March 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has approved the terms of Bartell Drug Company's compensation for female employees denied coverage of prescription contraceptives.

March 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New Jersey woman who has been battling for half of her ex-husband's pension account won an important victory when a federal judge...

July 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee who resigned before being laid off has no standing to bring a claim for severance benefits.

July 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has jurisdiction over an employee's severance plan benefits claims because the plan is ERISA governed even if the employer isn't...