Compliance

November 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has sent back to a Connecticut state court a lawsuit by state officials against a New York investment company over...

November 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Federal Appeals court, agreeing in part with a Federal district court's decision, dismissed state claims and said that former Imation employees must...

October 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ordered Xerox to cough up an additional $284 million in retiree payments, though that may not be the final...

October 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Mississippi jury has ordered Wal-Mart Stores to pay $8.5 million to a former employee who was fired after being accused of shoplifting...

October 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has backed a decision by a pension plan administrator to deny preretirement survivor income benefits to a woman who had...

October 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Supreme Court justices have agreed to decide exactly who is an "employee" for the purposes of determining whether small firms are subject...

September 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has reversed course - ruling that employers can require prospective employees to sign an arbitration agreement as a condition...

August 16, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has granted class-action status to a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against soap maker Dial Corp by the US Equal Employment Opportunity...

August 25, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If the Clinton Administration has its way, there will be no more "wear-away" of retirement benefits as part of a conversion to a...

July 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Today Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao kicks off a series of hearings on work-related injuries --but key Democrats have already accused the forum of...

July 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? Employers prevail in more than two-thirds of job discrimination suits in federal court ? and then win nearly half of the cases lost...

June 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has turned aside a bid from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. to limit disclosure of company salary and promotion...

June 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participant loan repayments become assets of an employer retirement plan as soon as they can reasonably be separated from the company's general funds.

April 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The boundaries of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which forbids discrimination against disabled workers, are set to be tested as the...

April 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a case involving a 400lb woman with a genetic metabolic disorder, New Jersey Supreme Court justices for the first time recognized morbid...

April 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Department of Labor (DoL) officials have made it clear that they're "exceptionally unhappy" with Enron's move to back out of an agreement...

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing's (3M) "Your Benefits" booklet promised retirees "lifetime" medical benefits, former workers still weren't legally entitled to them...

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Representative Henry Waxman (D-California) wants former Enron President Jeff Skilling to tell his side of meetings with the California Public Employees Retirement System...

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just days prior to going to trial, Arthur Andersen LLP has agreed to pay $217 million to resolve all pending litigation in connection...

March 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US mutual funds with foreign holdings might be pricing their funds inaccurately, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission official.