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August 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Fifty-five percent of U.S. employee respondents to a recent survey said workers wearing casual attire are more productive than those wearing more traditional...

August 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Assurant Employee Benefits now offers cancer, critical illness, accident and gap insurance as employee-paid voluntary benefits, the company said

August 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – ING Investment Plan Services has until September 28, 2010, to refile its lawsuit against a Wheaton, Illinois, woman who ING claims has refused...

August 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bill Heitmann, Verizon's senior vice president-finance, will retire from Verizon effective at the end of this year.

August 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A painter is not entitled to compensation for time he spent commuting to job sites, even though he carried his employer’s equipment in...

August 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) announced that four groups representing employers have endorsed his legislation, the American Job Protection Act, repealing the employer...

August 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge has ordered Lucent Technologies to readmit to its defined benefit pension plan an employee temporarily laid off, after finding the...

August 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An auditor’s report has concluded that the internal controls policies and procedures in place at City of Miami pension funds, Employee Relations, and...

August 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Caterpillar Inc. said management, support and other nonunion employees in the U.S. will switch from a defined benefit pension plan to a 401(k)...

August 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Pension Benefit Information (PBI), a provider of participant research, has unveiled the Platinum Web-Based Death Audit service.

August 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) –The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted changes to the federal proxy and other rules to facilitate the rights of shareholders to nominate...

August 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Disagreeing with a lower court, a federal appellate court has ruled that an Oklahoma City school principal should be allowed to proceed with...

August 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New Jersey appellate court has upheld a $7.5-million jury award to a former Exxon worker and his spouse, holding Exxon liable for...

August 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Wal-Mart has asked the nation’s high court to review an appellate ruling that allowed as many as 1.5 million women to sue the...

August 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Some 65% of employers plan to increase health coverage cost sharing next year for things such as deductibles, co-pays, and out-of-pocket maximums, according to...

August 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The SPARK Institute has posted more than 20 answers to new questions it has received regarding its 403(b) Plans Information Sharing Data Elements...

August 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – CPI Qualified Plan Consultants has tapped Wayne Bosch for a retirement plan consultant position for its new office in Birmingham, Alabama.