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October 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has announced it has assumed responsibility for two pension plans sponsored by Republic Storage Systems Co., Inc.

October 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost half of directors (47%) sit on only one public company board, while a total of 78% sit on one or two, according...

October 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Under pressure, AIG VALIC has agreed to disclose its revenue-sharing agreements for a new 457 retirement plan offered to Los Angeles Unified School...

October 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York's Division of Tax Appeals has recently decided that the full amount of an individual retirement account (IRA) distribution is to be...

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A newly released report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured claims that almost half of the decline in employer-sponsored health...

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US private-sector workplaces were a bit safer in 2005 over the year before, according to new government data.

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey from Mercer Human Resource Consulting found retailers lead other employer types in implementing aggressive employee benefit cost controls.

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rejecting a lower court's finding that a 401(k) participant's beneficiary designation of his stepdaughter was not valid, a federal appellate court has sent...

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia has determined that a former IBM Corp. employee who delayed making a timely...

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Connecticut authorities have charged a state worker with fraudulently getting workers' compensation benefits for an on-the-job injury when actually she was able to...

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled that a former Coca-Cola Co. employee waited too long to pursue his...

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In overturning a lower court ruling, the Minnesota Court of Appeals found that a provision in an employer's employee handbook saying workers fired...

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri ruled in a summary judgment that Allstate Insurance Company's one-year moratorium on rehiring...

October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Better still, if he did work for you, how much would you pay Homer Simpson?

October 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Wednesday issued a final rule governing how employee benefit plans can properly offer electronic benefit elections, consents...

October 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Holding company LSB Corporation announced Wednesday that it would terminate its defined benefit plan in exchange for increasing its match contributions to its...

October 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The notion of backdating stock options was apparently spread across the corporate landscape like a virus - through contacts by a director sitting...

October 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has issued a staff question and answer document about auditing the fair value of share options...

October 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Negative second-quarter returns in the equity markets were counterbalanced by higher long bond yields, leaving the funded status of global benchmark pension plans...

October 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey from Prudential Financial Inc. indicates that employers view their benefit programs as important and are looking at innovative ways to...