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August 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ADP Benefit Services has unveiled a new Web-based medical plan cost modeling tool to better enable employees to compare the cost of their...

August 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The median US corporate, public, and foundation/endowment plan enjoyed positive results for the second quarter of 2005, according to the Mercer Investment Consulting...

August 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A motion filed in the lawsuit concerning Bank of America's (BoA) Cash Balance Plan asks the judge to rule on the legality of...

August 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study conducted by Interactive Data Corp. (IDC) and Kronos Incorporated shows 85% of hospital executives believe if hospitals better addressed their...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Supreme Court has decided that the state's discrimination law applies to a cosmetics executive who refused to fire a sales associate...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has granted a former Nissan North America employee a chance to prove her case that she was discriminated against...

December 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal securities regulators have demanded testimony and documents as part of their probe of the troubled San Diego city pension system, according to...

December 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Walt Disney Co. with failing to disclose numerous relationships between the company, multiple directors, and...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A court has found that a requirement omitted from a benefits brochure can still be enforced in spite of the omission.

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Oregon Supreme Court has dismissed appeals to a lower court's ruling that will decrease public retirees' benefits by some $1.6 million and...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio resolved the coordination of benefits (COB) between a COBRA plan and other group...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued proposed and final regulations under IRC Sections 411(a) and 411(d)(6) to address a recent Supreme Court decision...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Smith Barney officials showed up in person this week at a meeting of a Florida city's police and firefighter pension board to defend...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Arizona's highest court has overturned a state law making it harder to qualify for workers' compensation benefits if under the...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled for former Assistant US Attorney John Carver, finding the US Justice Department guilty of age...

December 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to a recent survey, nearly two-thirds (65%) of plan sponsors feel that the third party administrator (TPA) firm they work with makes...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US pension plan funded ratios moved up dramatically in July, driven by strong equity returns and increasing long bond yields, according to the...

December 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Edward D. Jones & Co. has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange, and the National Association of...

August 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Cendant Corp. employee who was outsourced to International Business Machines Corp. has run into a legal roadblock in his court fight...

August 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hewitt Associates, an HR consultant, has announced changes to its own employee benefits intended to save the company $45 million annually.