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November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that a participant in an overfunded defined benefit pension plan has no legal standing...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As they have elsewhere in the retirement plan market, 401(k) auto plan features have taken hold in a big way among mid- to...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that an employer was not obligated to provide unionized employees with lifetime retiree health benefits that the...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. received final approval on Monday of a settlement in which it will pay between $65 million and $85 million to...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A U.S. House committee on Wednesday approved the Investor Protection Act, which backers say will strengthen the powers of the Securities and Exchange...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced the settlement of a sex discrimination class action lawsuit for $1,025,000 against Lawry's Restaurants,...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While administrators were given the go-ahead by a recently passed bill to implement a mutual fund window within the federal employees' Thrift Savings...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 83% of Dallas-Fort Worth-area employers do not plan to trim their benefit packages while 37% anticipate improvement to their benefit packages.

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Austin (Texas) City Manager Marc Ott has informed the City Council that COBRA-like benefits will be made available to the same-sex domestic partners...

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are showing unprecedented generosity in providing Thanksgiving holiday leave, while the level of gift giving is at a 16-year low, according to...

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American workers may have a new reason to prefer setting the clocks back to end daylight savings time over setting the clocks forward...

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey of small business owners or managers shows fewer of them planning to give end-of-year bonuses or gifts to their workers.

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Among the covered Americans who have consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), workers with employee-only coverage have seen their annual employer contributions decrease, while those...

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Keane Organization, a provider of compliance and risk management solutions to Fortune 1000 corporations, has promoted Mark Sweatman to president of Keane's...

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - RiskMetrics Group has acquired KLD Research & Analytics, a Boston-based environmental, social, and governance (ESG) research firm, the companies announced.

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The combined assets of the nation's mutual funds increased by $211.8 billion, or 2%, to $10.824 trillion in September, according to the Investment...

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some people are just naturally bad drivers according to new research suggesting individuals born with a certain variant of a gene don't stay...

March 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has accused a Pennsylvania benefits firm of improperly administering death benefit plans sold nationwide, including improperly siphoning...

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - National Investment Managers, a nationally-based and regionally-operated retirement plan administration and investment management company with over $10 billion of assets under administration, has...

November 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ING has decided to hang on to two retirement/insurance-affiliated broker/dealers, while selling off three others.