Compliance

September 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Oklahoma City law firm is the latest to sue WorldCom over allegations the former telecommunications giant violated ERISA by the way it...

April 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A plan administrator's actions in filing a complaint of possible insurance fraud with the local police regarding a participant's long-term disability claim are...

April 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is recommending Congress tighten current tax laws that allow corporate executives to obfuscate their income from taxes without consequence.

April 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives Education & the Workforce Committee approved the Family Time Flexibility Act (HR 1119), that would allow private sector...

April 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Proposed pension regulations that include a new interpretation of age discrimination would invalidate more than two thirds of the defined benefit plans sponsored...

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released a new handbook to help employers deal with the provisions of the Americans with...

April 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have some guidance in determining whether an employee welfare benefit plan is collectively bargained, and thus exempt from state regulation of...

April 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The American Benefits Council has submitted a report to the Senate Finance Committee explaining the importance of nonqualified deferred compensation plans to the workforce.

April 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Representatives Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and George Miller (D-California) have introduced legislation designed to "protect employees' pensions from unfair rules."

August 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A suit seeking class action status has been filed against Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. on behalf of clerical workers who charge that...

August 23, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The firms presenting the ten largest claims have accounted for more than half of all claims against the nation's pension insurance system over...

August 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US Airways Group stockholder is suing airline executives for approving $45 million in severance benefits to three executives.

August 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ordered the owner of a number of Waffle House franchises to pay 125 current and former managers about $2.9...

April 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors trying to get up to speed on compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), take heart....

April 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seeing no connection between her duties and her disability, a court ruled against a transfer to an above-ground job for a subway token...

April 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have pulled back proposed regulations governing how employers can prove that a cash balance plan is not discriminatory because of protests...

June 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? A federal judge has relied on the Casey Martin ruling to extend the protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act to a 19-year-old...

June 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? President Bush gave a vote of confidence to a PBOR proposal on Wednesday, while the Senate continued to debate amendments to S. 1052,...

June 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? A co-worker cannot be sued for slander over criticisms made to supervisors about job performance, according to a federal appeals court ruling.

May 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite last minute jostling and being tied to a sometimes controversial tax package, pension reform finally got through Congress Saturday, on its way...