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August 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Retired Briggs & Stratton employees have sued the company, alleging it went against its word by dropping or reducing retiree health benefits.

August 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new analysis by Hewitt Associates shows that many workers are continuing to enroll in COBRA for health care insurance, despite the high...

August 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Argentina’s lower house approved a bill to boost the country’s minimum monthly pension payments, a move the government says will bankrupt the current...

August 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chris Tobe has started a niche consulting firm that works primarily on stable value.

August 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most entrepreneurs are uncertain that their health plans will meet new rules to qualify for “grandfathered” status and how the changes required by...

August 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Holzer Holzer & Fistel, LLC is investigating potential violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) by GlaxoSmithKline plc.

August 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In the first such action of its kind, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged the state of New Jersey with securities...

August 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new National Business Group on Health (NBGH) survey finds that large-sized employers are looking for an average 8.9% health care cost hike...

August 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Nebraska Department of Insurance will co-host a free health law compliance assistance...

August 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new CareerBuilder survey finds that more than one-third (35%) of companies are using social media to promote their businesses.

August 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee of the University of California San Francisco Medical Center obtained and used the personal information of other UC employees to create...

August 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that an agreement between California grocers to share profits during a union strike violated...

August 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Vanguard Group has unveiled the Vanguard Target Retirement 2055 Fund, for investors 18 to 22 years old.

August 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appellate court has breathed new life into a gender discrimination lawsuit by a female field technician for Verizon Communications who claimed...

August 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge has ordered Visteon Corp. to reinstate health and life insurance benefits to retirees.

August 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Andrew J. "Buddy" Donohue plans to leave the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in November after serving more than four years as its...

August 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Tim Connolly, a 25-year veteran of Towers Watson and predecessor firm Watson Wyatt, has joined the leadership team of Mercer’s Retirement, Risk and...

August 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust’s asset management arm, Northern Trust Global Investments, has launched a Frontier Markets index fund.

August 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The afternoon “blahs” will apparently get you every time while you are at work – at least according to a new Accountemps survey.

August 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The second quarter of 2010 revealed the highest quarterly rise in executive search industry revenues since the low point in the recession only...