Compliance

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...

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...

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...

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ?Labor Department officials have "substantially liberalized" rules governing how much sponsors can charge back to their plan for participant communications, a consultant group says.

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After a full day of discussion Wednesday, the Senate will likely move closer to some consideration of the patients' bill of rights legislation...

May 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Burlington Northern Santa Fe has agreed to pay 36 employees a total of up to $2.2 million to settle a genetic-testing case with the...

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday on trends in retiree health benefits.

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Speaking at the AICPA National Conference on Employee Benefits In Washington DC, David Walker, Comptroller General at the US General Accounting Office, discussed...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's pension insurer lost nearly $2 billion last year - but still has a hefty cushion to work with.

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California jury has awarded $30 million to six female supermarket workers who claim they were sexually harassed with charges that a male...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees of Gillette Corp. are now free to sell the company shares in their retirement plans.

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A dreadlocked United Parcel Service driver who refused company requests to wear a cap while at work was fired because he had refused...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has dismissed the Communications Workers of America and two of its officials from a lawsuit brought by nine former Verizon...

March 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers can require employees to take job-related disputes to arbitration rather than to court, according to the Supreme Court.

March 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court Wednesday ruled in favor of ERISA's preemption over state law.

February 21, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A divided (5-4) Supreme Court ruled that states cannot be sued by individuals seeking money damages under the Americans with Disabilities Act of...