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As Nevin Adams, Editor-in-Chief of PLANSPONSOR magazine, put it, with any new legislation, there's the "figuring out what's there," and there's the "aftermath (figuring out what we don't...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington has dismissed claims by a group of Washington Mutual employees that the company's...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The Internal Revenue Service has updated its regulations on the tax treatment of cash balance plans to include changes made by the Pension...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - With a long and hard-fought legal battle behind it over its controversial stance on discrimination in retiree health benefits, the U.S. Equal Employment...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A day after the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California determined that San Francisco's new health care security ordinance is...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin has approved a pension fund's suspension of retirement benefits for a former participant...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com ) - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court's ruling that an employer did not violate the Americans with...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bradford P. Campbell, assistant secretary of labor for the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), on Monday announced that the...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A federal judge has ruled that the widow of an accidental death benefit plan participant is not entitled to a payment since her...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A federal judge in the District of Columbia has cleared the way for a transsexual job applicant to pursue an employment discrimination suit...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors know all too well the trials and travails of the workplace - little wonder that "War Stories" is one of our...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SBAuer Funds has announced the launch of the Auer Growth Fund (AUERX) which looks for stocks poised to double in value within a...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations that provide employers sponsoring single-employer defined benefit plans with guidance regarding...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a first-ever in-depth profile of baby boomers who will turn 62 in 2008, the MetLife Mature Market Institute has found they are...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it has initiated court action to protect the benefits of more than 1,700 workers and retirees...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Christopher Cox has launched the first-ever online tool that enables investors to see what 500 of the...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it has initiated court action to protect the benefits of more than 1,700 workers and retirees...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - New regulatory guidance from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) allows public companies to keep using a simplified method to estimate their...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Declaring that he needed more information about how Oregon state officials turned away gay rights opponents' civil unions ballot initiative request, a federal...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A federal appellate court has thrown out its earlier ruling in a discrimination case against the United Parcel Service (UPS) and set out...