Compliance

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) - 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 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 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) - 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 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 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation has been introduced in both the United States House of Representatives and Senate offering domestic partners of federal employees the same protections...

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court in Iowa has personal jurisdiction over a California-based health plan participant sued by his Iowa-administered health plan.

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The widow of an employer-sponsored life insurance plan lost her bid for $100,000 in insurance benefits because the plan participant called in sick...

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately 100,000 women across Ontario, Canada will receive C$414 million in pay equity funding from the Ontario Government.

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawyers in California now have another potential weapon in their fight against employment discrimination as a result of a state appeals court ruling...