Compliance

June 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? The Senate spent Thursday arguing over amendments to the McCain-Kennedy Patients' Bill of Rights bill ? while President Bush issued a preemptive "strike"...

June 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Today the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on a case that could have an impact on the assumptions...

June 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a victory for oil giant Chevron Corp., the US Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision that employers may deny employment to...

June 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A prominent money manager has been convicted of fraud for channeling unprofitable securities to the accounts of client pension funds and others while...

June 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The Retirement Security Advice Act, introduced by Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) yesterday, has gained a bill number, a growing list of co-sponsors, and the...

May 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seven former Lucent Technologies managers were not wrongly denied additional pension benefits, even though the communications company sweetened its management pension plan after...

May 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - People receiving a free echocardiogram to check for heart valve damage from using a diet drug won't have to pay taxes on the...

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...