Compliance

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...

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer-sponsored retirement plan or other type of lender can't charge borrowers on military leave more than 6% interest, under a bill approved...

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 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A hospital's state law claim alleging a health plan negligently represented that it would provide coverage for a plan participant's medical care is...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Representative Dave Weldon (R-Florida) has introduced HR 2439 to repeal the 1993 Social Security tax increase and postpone the required distribution age...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers who take pension benefits in an annuity would be allowed to shield $3,000 of that money from federal income tax under a...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA's anti-alienation provision doesn't shield a participant whose only assets are in a pension fund from having to make court-ordered restitution, according to...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A move by a New Orleans-area supermarket company to drop its grocery voucher program for retirees violated ERISA because the voucher program was...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A company may have had an illegal clause in a waiver of rights release agreement prohibiting an older worker from filing a federal...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A North Carolina state worker organization on Friday won the chance to make its case to a state appeals court that Governor Mike...

June 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill that would make it easier for small companies to buy employee health care coverage has gotten past a US House of...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The practice of holding ESOP stock shares in shell S corporations that don't benefit participants shouldn't get a delay in implementing new rules...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) does not preempt a Texas law calling for independent review of health maintenance organizations...

December 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A financial services industry group is battling a recent ruling by the North Carolina state bar that many standard retirement plan services actually...

June 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A previously determined qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) entitles a stock purchase plan administrator to recover a portion of plan benefits mistakenly paid...

June 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans who make estimated tax payments could start using the new lower federal tax rates and other tax law changes as of June...

June 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Oregon appeals judge has ordered the state's ailing Public Employees Retirement System to begin recalculating retirement benefits and employer rates.

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Court of Appeal upheld a $1.26-million judgment against Aetna US Healthcare Inc., finding the health care group broke California law by...

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal anti-discrimination law does not hold water as a legal defense in California, the California 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled in...

November 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government has settled an age discrimination claim on behalf of former Woolworth employees, in what the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission called...