Compliance

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.

June 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Tampa, Florida federal court jury has slapped a restaurant firm with a $1.55 million jury verdict in a sexual harassment lawsuit.

June 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension benefits awarded to a former spouse in a divorce settlement will continue to be paid out - even beyond the grave, the...

June 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Multiemployer pension fund trustees didn't have to disclose an itemized break down of expenses that are reported to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)...

June 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge says there is evidence to support a 401(k) participant suit against WorldCom officials and recordkeeper Merrill Lynch for breach of...

June 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has upheld a benefits denial by a disability plan administrator, saying that a summary plan description (SPD) trumps a plan...

June 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An investigation by an independent counsel and auditor have revealed no evidence to support allegations of accounting fraud and employee discrimination made in...

June 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - No one could have ever called Frank Kinney Jr. a slacker when he was a New Haven (Connecticut) Superior Court jurist.

June 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is petitioning a federal appeals court to reinstate an employment discrimination suit against Southern Company...

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former postal worker should have been granted Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave to care for her daughter, who had a...