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March 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cleveland, Ohio-based Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. has announced new hires for its US company as of January 1, 2006 will be covered under...

March 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - WellPoint Inc. has frozen its defined benefit pension plan for most of its employees and beefed up its 401(k) offering, following a growing...

March 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Smith Barney has launched a new business unit that will provide expanded investment consulting services to plan sponsors, foundations, and other institutional investors.

March 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Results from a study conducted by HighRoads, a provider of benefits lifecycle management (BLM) solutions, demonstrate that employers can use competitive auctions to...

March 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ING is now offering its defined contribution clients many of the regulatory documents related to their retirement plan accounts in electronic form.

March 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As US House and Senate negotiators continue trying to hammer out a compromise pension reform measure, United Parcel Service (UPS) has it sights...

March 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has announced a technical amendment extending the interim final rules under the Mental Health...

March 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Group has announced plans to add five new Target Retirement Funds and change the funds' asset allocation models.

March 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans without access to a workplace retirement savings plan would be able to contribute to an IRA via payroll deduction under a new...

March 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A woman who claimed her former employer discriminated against her because of her age by deliberately accepting her resignation six weeks before her...

March 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre has asked a California judge to invalidate pension benefits granted in 1996 and 2002.

March 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aetna members will now be able to download their claims information to their personal computer via Aetna Navigator, Aetna's password-protected member Web site,...

March 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A pension plan participant who filed a fiduciary breach suit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) simply waited too long before...

March 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost two-thirds (63%) of employers in a recent survey said they have not yet decided about how to handle their retiree benefit programs...

March 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have clarified the circumstances under which health plans can legitimately give out medical information to people who call on the patient's...

March 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a move to increase the focus on its services linking third party administrators (TPAs) with clients, The Principal Financial Group has announced...

March 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement Resources, Inc. (RRI) has introduced a version of its 401(k) Market Monitor Vendor Profiles that focuses on the not-for-profit 403(b) market segment.

March 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A growing number of US employers are implementing consumer-driven health plans (CDHP) to help control rising costs, according to a study from Watson...

March 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee moved forward a bill from US Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) intended to help small...

March 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Four New York lawyers have lost their battle for a slice of a $3.2 million class action fee received by their firm after...