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September 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morgan Stanley became the latest Wall Street firm to stand accused of violating overtime pay laws with a federal court lawsuit filed by...

September 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - St. Louis-based Hardee's has agreed to pay $34,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming that one of its restaurants repeatedly refused to hire a...

September 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An upcoming study by the Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI) provides details on America's uninsured, 83% of whom live in families headed by...

September 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two influential US Senators are pressing forward with a sweeping tax relief package aimed at Katrina storm victims that includes waiving the normal...

September 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers may be predicting a health care coverage cost increase that is more manageable than in recent years, but the slowing of cost...

September 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maryland's Supreme Court ruled that an illegal alien injured on the job is deemed a covered employee eligible for workers compensation benefits under...

September 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - T. Rowe Price has announced the launch of its new personal finance platform offering more comprehensive financial planning services to plan sponsors for...

September 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The shift from defined benefit to defined contribution plans continued in 2000, with DB plans declining 4.1% from 50,000 in 1999 to 48,000...

September 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - T. Rowe Price has announced the launch of its new personal finance platform offering more comprehensive financial planning services to plan sponsors for...

September 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ceridian has launched Ceridian Backup Care Solutions - a system through which covered employees can get care for family members both old and...

September 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ceridian has launched Ceridian Backup Care Solutions - a system through which covered employees can get care for family members both old and...

September 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On Friday afternoon, Michael G. Cherkasky, president and chief executive officer of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., announced that Brian M. Storms has...

September 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group in conjunction with Caremark Rx, Inc. has launched a new program to provide generic drug alerts to pharmacists.

September 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A court ruling in a case involving company stock in the K plan of JPMorgan Chase has brought to the forefront a key...

September 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a man's disability benefits are not pension benefits his ex-wife is entitled to per their property settlement.

September 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assurant Employee Benefit's Serious Disability Benefit product is now being offered as an employer-paid benefit.

September 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK employers will have to have an actuarial study done of their retirement plans to verify any extra contributions made since the plan's...

September 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In response to the spike in gas prices, the Internal Revenue Service has increased the optional standard mileage rates to 48.5 cents per...

December 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workstream Inc., a management software provider, has announced the closing of its private placement with institutional investors of common stock and warrants with...

December 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CIBC World Markets Inc. and two of its employees were fined Tuesday over allegations of improper trading on the TSX and TSX Ventures...