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April 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has decided that participants in an Aon Corp. retirement plan may continue with...

April 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - How much a man holds in his pension plan when he retires is less important than his physical and mental health, a new...

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - HealthPartners and CIGNA HealthCare have reached a long-term alliance offering health plan products using the HealthPartners and CIGNA provider networks to companies with...

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has announced it has expanded and simplified the Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program (VFC) that allows employers and professional...

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to the State Street Investor Confidence Index, institutional investor confidence in April rose to 82.3 from March's revised reading of 81.9.

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seligman has added auto enrollment to its Growth 401(k) plan, the company announced.

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NETSHARE, a confidential subscription-based career site for executives, announced the addition of Corporate Connections, a new service that allows subscribers to search an...

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prudential Retirement has introduced PruSolutions Plus, a new defined contribution product that provides small qualified retirement plans with the products and services often...

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Six companies have so far signed on to a US-led initiative to urge corporate executives to do what they can to help employees...

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An effort to quell the onslaught of recent criticism over its health care offerings, Wal-Mart, Inc. agreed this week to ease eligibility requirements...

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MetLife announced the launch of its enhanced MetLife Advice program which includes no-cost, add-on components allowing employers to provide financial guidance to employees...

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the firing of an employee experiencing side effects of a diabetes medication was...

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sitting as a group with all its judges participating, the majority of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that the...

April 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal jury awarded a disabled worker more than $114,000 in back pay and damages after a five-day trial over claims that his...

April 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A study by Northern Trust found that 90% of high net worth households are concerned that spiraling health care costs might affect their...

April 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that an employee's violent behavior after his Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) request was denied was...

April 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congress is considering a far-reaching reform that would give insurers a new right to scale back benefits by pre-empting state-mandated offerings.

April 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 15 business groups have stepped into the middle of the longstanding legal battle over whether employers can cut back retiree health...

April 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Philadelphia has refused to throw out a $2.9 million 2005 jury verdict to four while male Philadelphia School District...

April 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 7th Circuit US Court of Appeals has determined that a plan trustee did not breach his fiduciary duties by allowing participant investment...