Compliance

January 31, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.COM)-A senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Dallas is calling for privatizing social security, but the former CEO of the Federal Retirement Thrift...

January 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) is looking for input on the development of "safe harbors" for plan administrators...

January 7, 2003, (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush's economic stimulus package is likely to have some interesting consequences for plan sponsors and institutional investors.

January 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two prominent House Republicans say they will try again to get the Pension Security Act reform bill through both houses of the new...

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An insurer is still liable for employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) fiduciary breach claims, even though the insurer failed to list the plan...

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Internal Revenue Service officials have ruled out using the aggregate entry age normal funding method as a "reasonable" option under the Internal...

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Supreme Court handed an ex-Intel worker a victory in his six-year legal dispute with the technology giant over 30,000 e-mails he...

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has remanded a case back to the lower court to decide whether a travel accident insurance plan participant was...

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Allegedly terminating a Dell Computer Corp. employee on account of a disability, may lead to immediate vesting of unexercised stock options.

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressional lawmakers shelved long-simmering partisan debate over Medicare reform long enough for both houses to pass sweeping Medicare legislation giving seniors a prescription...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The widow of a dead pension plan participant isn't entitled to surviving spouse benefits on top of those selected by her husband on...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DOL) has filed suit against a host of players in an attempt to recover retirement plan losses at Enron,...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has ruled a suit against Nike Inc. can proceed, rejecting the company's contentions that is advertising speech was constitutionally...

June 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An insurance company didn't violate a federal anti-discrimination law by sacking a worker who had reportedly threatened "to take a few people out"...

June 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors considering a conversion to a cash balance plan or amending their current defined benefit plan, should note the Internal Revenue Service...

June 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A move that might have helped ease concerns that Medicare reform measures would spur employers to drop retiree drug coverage died in the...

June 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear a case involving the review obligations of a long-term disability (LTD) benefit plan administrator.

June 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has notified its member companies of new regulations requiring that new stock option plans, or significant changes...

June 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has reached a settlement in a case of alleged unlawful dismissal due to mental illness in violation...

June 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer's argument that an inspection of its jobsite was a nonconsensual inspection in violation of the Fourth Amendment was rejected.