Compliance

November 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana did not commit an ERISA violation by denying payment for breast reduction surgery, according to Washington-based legal...

November 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Wilmington, North Carolina medical practice has agreed to pay a former nurse $35,000 in a religious harassment case.

November 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Supreme Court justices have agreed to decide whether state government agencies such as the California Medical Board can be sued under the...

November 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has thrown out a 401(k) participant lawsuit against Providian Financial Corp., because the suit's allegations weren't specific enough to let...

June 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Freezing a pension plan is not the same as a termination, so service after the freeze can still be taken into account, according...

June 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Colorado Republican Governor Bill Owens has inked legislation allowing insurers to charge higher premiums to small employers with sicker workers.

June 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Giant retailer Wal-Mart has been hit with a federal court lawsuit alleging that the company violated ERISA by saying in its employee handbook...

June 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund investors would have access to a flood of new information on mutual fund costs and discounts, "soft-dollar" deals, and revenue-sharing arrangements...

June 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer is taking over three pension plans underfunded by about $42 million from a bankrupt Boston-based chemical and machine tool...

October 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though federal employees are limited in the amount of workplace political activity they can have, they can still display political posters on...

October 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Giving an employee of a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp. false information about his retirement benefits was a fiduciary duty violation under ERISA,...

October 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has handed a legal victory to three New York Daily News employees who challenged the company's move to reduce...

October 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled that an employer is not in violation of ERISA Section 510 if...

October 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The Fifth Circuit Court upheld a lower court's ruling in its opinion that employees are not entitled to benefits in an ERISA plan,...

October 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on a case concerning the employment of workers with disabilities in situations where the job...

September 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Pennsylvania health services company has lost another legal skirmish in its battle to cut the worker's compensation benefits of one if its...

September 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US appeals court has allowed a group of Pirelli Armstrong Tire Corp. employees to get back on the road with their legal...

September 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House Employer-Employee Relations Subcommittee passed two bills designed to ensure that rank-and-file workers receive information from their unions about their legal...

June 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service is updating the list of do's and don'ts when it comes to issuing and tracking incentive stock options.

June 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American consumers may have an easier time pay for health care if a proposed new health savings account (HAS) is enacted into law.