Compliance

May 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It seems that Californians could be too old to learn - or at least to old to expect tuition reimbursement from your employer.

May 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court handed the tobacco industry a legal victory against the claims of union health care funds that they should be...

May 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senate Democrats continued to throw one amendment after another at the $1.35 trillion tax cut bill, arguing that the bill required modification, while...

April 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private pension reform alone is unlikely to significantly broaden pension coverage for lower income workers, a recently released report by the Government Accounting...

March 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First Union has settled two participant class action lawsuits related to its 401(k) plan for $26 million.

February 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Linda Chavez, President Bush's initial choice for Secretary of Labor, is forming an independent "watchdog" group to keep an eye on union involvement...

January 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Philadelphia firefighter, who complained colleagues discriminated against him because they thought he was gay, cannot sue unless he can prove that...

January 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush has asked the US Treasury Department to review US pension regulations in the wake of the collapse of energy trading giant...

January 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A case that will lay ground rules for patients unhappy with the doctors in their insurers' networks, and want the networks to pay...

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The Internal Revenue Service has issued guidelines on companies taking a new tax deduction on dividends passed through to employees holding company stock as...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors trying to figure out what to make of the interim final rules on blackout notices might draw insights from public comment...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer has pulled back a pending rule on cash balance plans until the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) clarifies its cash...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has issued Guidance to help organizations in complying with the...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Michigan appeals court has ruled that a divorced couple did not intend to include cost of living adjustment increases in the ex-wife's...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merck & Co. subsidiary Medco Health Solutions, Inc., a prescription benefit manager (PBM), has agreed to a settlement worth $42.5 million in ERISA-related...

November 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It seemed inevitable that Enron Corp. would be fanning the flames of a class action suit over its embattled 401(k) plan after last...

November 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -In what appears to be an emerging trend, employees of embattled energy trading giant Enron sued their employer for endangering their retirement funds --causing...

October 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A defrocked executive of Zippo Manufacturing Co. forced out over allegations he misappropriated company funds is out of luck when it comes to...

September 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The lobbying arm of a retirement services industry group is pressing for lawmakers to drop a provision in pension reform legislation adding more...

September 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A female plaintiff's wage discrimination claim was allowed to proceed after a federal district court noted ambiguities in the case law on such...