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September 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have announced extension to health plan coverage deadlines so that employees and employers affected by Hurricane Katrina will have the much-needed...

September 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee found that an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) trustee breached his fiduciary duties...

September 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In yet another sign that the spiraling workplace health-care costs increases are cooling off, federal employees and retirees will be dealing with the...

September 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals decided that a retiree could not change his surviving spouse election even after she signed a...

September 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The District of Columbia Emergency Medical Services Department has reached a settlement on a complaint that female applicants were subjected to a pregnancy...

September 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has cleared officials at Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation of fiduciary breach charges in connection with a lawsuit by an employee...

September 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Delaware federal judge has thrown out part of a lawsuit filed by a former AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals employee over a required health coverage...

September 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CIGNA Group Insurance has enhanced its Family & Medical Leave Act services to help employers better manage FMLA compliance and reduce administrative headaches.

September 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released two guidance documents on how it will handle the Health Insurance Portability...

September 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hewitt Associate's "Salary Increase Survey" found that Canadian employers expect to hold steady salary increases for 2006 and continue to use variable pay...

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MFS Retirement Services, Inc. announced that it now offers open architecture allowing financial intermediaries and plan sponsors to choose investment products from multiple...

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MFS Retirement Services, Inc. announced that it now offers open architecture allowing financial intermediaries and plan sponsors to choose investment products from multiple...

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Great-West Retirement Services has added a new suite of advisory services that includes a managed account service as well as online investment guidance...

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hurricane Katrina has caused a delay in the issuance of the second round of guidance under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code,...

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A West Virginia federal judge has awarded a dead participant's ex-wife benefits even though the couple's qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) was not...

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to a report in the American Journal of Health Promotion, an obese employee costs an additional $460 to $2,500 annually in medical...

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Greenwood Village, Colorado restaurant chain has agreed to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit over the firing of a waiter who had religious...

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the IRS have issued guidance on helping Hurricane Katrina victims obtain distributions and...

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government would subsidize group health insurance premiums of plans sponsored by employers in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina under a measure...

September 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against an Oklahoma health food store on behalf of an applicant it refused...