Compliance

January 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As the plight of Enron workers continues to dominate headlines, new legislative proposals continue to crop up.

January 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A wife's 401(k) contributions represent income for the purposes of determining the amount of alimony to which she is entitled, a Missouri state...

January 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has certified as a class action a lawsuit against CIGNA Corp. over the conversion of its pension plan to a...

May 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If at first you don't succeed; try, try, try - and in this case - try again, as legislation has one again been...

May 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee can't challenge a benefits decision by his employer's health and welfare plan because of the plan's three-year limit on when lawsuits...

May 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The president of the 1.5-million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has put his union's US presidential endorsement on the table for the...

May 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An insurer's decision to deny disability benefits is not entitled to court deference if it grounded its denial on a "selective" reading of...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An oral promise of severance benefits is not allowed for an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) governed plan, and therefore state law...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Supreme Court unanimously held that employer-sponsored health care plans need not defer to an employee's doctor when deciding whether to...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite providing sufficient evidence to back a Title VII claim that being homosexual led to workplace harassment, a judge ruled that the alleged...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A U.S. House of Representatives panel has scheduled a hearing for June 3rd to discuss the accounting treatment of stock options.

May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee that "enabled or materially augmented the ability of the employee to create a hostile work environment" can be classified as a...

May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State worker rights to 12 weeks of family leave have been upheld by a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An at-will employee is not entitled to a common-law duty of reasonable care when an employer conducts a mandatory drug test that ultimately...

May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has obtained a consent order barring trustees of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) of Portage, Indiana from...

May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors looking for signals regarding the direction of upcoming regulatory actions can glean some insight from today's Federal Register.

May 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Discrimination claims made by a white, Jewish, blonde woman from Moldavia are little more than her own judgments about the bigoted intent of...

May 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Presumption of death does not warrant benefit payments to the estate of a retirement plan participant's widow, since the estate could not provide...

May 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The trustee of the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is the owner of the stock and therefore, payments made by a company for...

May 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal jury has ruled the dismissal of seven Hispanic and black United Parcel Service (UPS) workers was not racially motivated.