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January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawmakers from Massachusetts - the only state where gay marriages are legal - have given preliminary approval to placing a proposed constitutional amendment...

February 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Pension Plan has filed suit against insurance giant American International Group in an ongoing...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Insurance company CIGNA has launched its newly redesigned Web site, which it said should make it easier for users to get health and...

January 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two prominent investment firms have each agreed to pay a $40 million fine to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission charges that they...

January 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The AFL-CIO is pushing for directors at six insurance companies to investigate the firms' roles in allegations of bid-rigging and then tell shareholders...

January 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The San Diego pension fiasco seems headed to the courts, with the City Attorney and a pension system attorney threatening legal action against...

January 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Newton Capital Management Limited, the London-based asset management subsidiary of Mellon Financial will make its investment strategies available to US institutional investors in...

January 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mortgage giant Fannie Mae is fighting back against a Michigan county pension fund trying to block payouts to Fannie Mae executives with a...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former Illinois Governor George Ryan filed a lawsuit Wednesday in an effort to hang on to at least some of his $197,000-a-year state...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an executive order on Thursday establishing the Public Employee Post-Employment Benefits Commission to propose ways for addressing growing...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bethlehem Steel's Retired Employees Benefits Coalition (REBCO), representing salaried retirees and their spouses, will voluntarily dissolve by December 31, according to the Baltimore...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The most prominent trend in health care in 2007 will be a greater move toward high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) paired with some type...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted summary judgment to a surviving spouse who claimed he was owed benefits...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq will be shut down January 2 for a national day of mourning for the death...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Apple Computer Inc. said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the company's CEO Steve Jobs did know about,...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee has announced James Michael Foley, former Vice President of Sales for UnumProvident Corporation, pled...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Marsh & McLennan has agreed to sell its money-management unit for $3.9 billion to holding company Power Corp. of Canada, sources told the...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Evergreen Investments, a unit of Wachovia Corporation, agreed to pay a $4.2 million civil penalty to settle National Association of Securities Dealers allegations...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Electric Co. has agreed to a request by a group of shareholders to go beyond regulatory requirements and disclose any business ties...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Attorney General of Wisconsin has ruled that the state's ban on same-sex marriage does not mean employers must stop providing domestic partner...